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Here are some photos I took in late March of 2026. I was really happy to get out and enjoy some of the springtime with leisure to take photographs. Click any image to see at highest available resolution.

Probably an Oak tree, beside park trail

White Nemophilia(?) wildflowers

Lupine wildflowers (Silver Bush Lupine?)

Chalcedon Checkerspot caterpillar

Hillside with grass turning from early spring green to dry season gold

Gray Pine flowers

Old pine cone and needles
(probably also Gray Pine)

Chaparral Clematis wildflowers

And, on a different day, in a different place:

Douglas Iris

elisem

It's nice to have good news to share.

As of May 1, I have health insurance again! In all directions available! (Medicare is complicated that way, and explaining it takes more words than I have time for, but the TooLong,Didn'tRead of it is: if your Medicare lapses, any supplemental insurance is also voided until you get the Medicare back. Which took from January 25th until now, in my case.)

Anyhow, yay health insurance. My doc will be pleased, as will my other providers.

Social Security also told me that the lapsed time period (for which I had paid, because they don't do reinstatement until you've paid for the part you didn't get -- I AM NOT KIDDING) will include reimbursements, which will mean I can close the pay-in-installments agreement with the providers for the three over-$500-each appointments I had before I was notified that I had lapsed already. Or if not close the arrangement, I can keep paying the providers knowing that someday SocSec/Medicare/whichever will reimburse me someday. So that's good too. Complicated and more paperwork, but good.

Sorry, I'm tired just thinking about more paperwork. Am going to go do the next thing, which is cycling laundry, and then go to my workbench and Make Something.

But still, good news!

How's your May going so far?

P.S. Heh. My phone notification just reminded me to go to my workbench. I'd better get the laundry moved and get to the bench!

ljgeoff

I once burned hot
with passion
with words
with outrage

now my words are fewer
some days I hardly speak at all
my passion takes longer to kindle
my outrage

my outrage still burns
but it burns cold
I give no fucks
for these pissant demagogues
or the thugs on my street
go a head and try me

An old man, a beekeeper
told me how his grandfather
was taken by the Nazis
taken as a teenager to the camps
and survived

"I'll take my gun up"
he told me
burning cold
"I have grandchildren.
Let them try me."

LJG 4/29/26

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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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