I am her favorite couch 😂🥰🐶

It's almost 9 am. Princess Aurora still hasn't even wanted to go out once. Yesterday she had play time at doggy daycare, moped rides through the park, bubble machine time, and a friend came to visit. This is a very tired doggo. It's going to be a rest day for both of us 🥰

Today's Linux workshop went well. Small turnout but I hadn't done much marketing so that was expected. I prefer it for these first iterations of things. Some things I needed that I didn't anticipate: a USB-wifi adapter, and usb-c adaptors for MacBooks. I've never had an apple product so I'm really in the dark on them. But I gave out a few of my ventoy USB sticks and taught them how to load it up to experiment. As often happens, the main utility of this event was just chatting and socializing with people who are all into the same hobby. I am exhausted but in a very good way 🥰

I've lived in four different countries, seven different states in the US, and spent several years as a digital nomad. At a certain point I just got tired. No place is perfect. Find the place that feels most like home and put in the work to make it work for you 💪🥰 View quoted note →

Today I did two walks with Princess Aurora 💪 Tomorrow I'm going to take her out on the Vespa for the first time since the accident. Wish me luck!! I'm a bit nervous 😅😬 Slowly but surely I'm getting better. These hard times will pass 💯

Once upon a time I managed a community garden in my home town. My main job was to just chat with and babysit the guy who was severely mentally challenged. He loved the butterflies, had nothing but milkweed in his plot for the butterflies, and would sometimes go into other members gardens to gather chrysalises to protect even more future butterflies. He was problematic for his lack of understanding about boundaries, and sometimes would have full meltdowns because he was afraid the butterflies would go extinct. He was a handful but a sweet hearted harmless man. I believe we owe something to each other, and especially to those that God "touches in the head". I saw this as one of the more important parts of my responsibilities to that community garden. The board was filled with hateful women who would often be blaming others for shitting in their garden. (Yes I had to referee these ridiculous people, it was clearly cat shit, there were many feral cats, yet I couldn't convince them it wasn't malicious people 🙄). They voted to ban the butterfly man from the garden over my very strong objections. I turned in my resignation after that and moved abroad to do some soul searching. I still think of him often and I hope he found comfort elsewhere after that happened. When I last saw him he was inconsolable. Plant the milkweed everywhere. Let our communities children and their children enjoy the butterflies and lightning bugs and every other beautiful ephemeral thing that makes this life worth while. Cherish and protect that magic 🥰 View quoted note →

I saw a hummingbird sitting pretty as a picture this morning. I've always felt that seeing them was a good luck charm 🥰