celebrate the simple joys. #flowers

#gm g (image credit: midjourney!)

#fearsfaced woohoo! I am enjoying that lovely buzzy afterglow when you've faced down a big fear and "coped". this one: city night driving, with the extra special bonuses of intense rush hour traffic, sliding into full-dark in a new and foreign-to-me city, minimal host country language skills (enough, sorta), new rental car, new-to-me nav app (don't need 'em at home) and a "lane-fluid" driving culture, so you learn quickly to follow their examples. oh and rain (thankfully slacking to drizzle) and unseeable urban street potholes. fasting. woo f' hoo! yes!

photo note: "oh crap the kitchen is already all packed up, except for this. and the tools. ooh! that's a diamond hacksaw for tile! that'll do it! problem solved. " kludging rules! improvise! [K,C]at...

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shall we emulate cutlery then, tap its wisdom? oh why not?!

problem, meet (purple!) solution. I love kludging! it's one of humanity's best hacks! would want to see any candidate spacefarer be fluent on this approach to solving problems.