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viridian5) wrote2025-06-26 01:47 am
viridian5) wrote2025-06-26 01:47 am
Now what I see is what I get
Today while I was out, a food bank truck at a church was bringing down a pallet that had stacks of large boxes of avocados, maybe 30 or more, and somehow the boxes tipped over sideways. Some hit the street and sent individual avocados flying out across Caldwell and Eliot Avenues. Some boxes fell on top of other boxes and smushed them. In 95F heat and sun. I was so tempted to take a photo, but I figured this guy was already having the worst workday of his life without him seeing me documenting it and knowing I'd show it to other people. (I also feel bad for the people who would've eaten those avocados if not for this accident.)
I wonder how many avocados were salvageable.
Probably not the one that rolled several hundred feet and into the crosswalk at the intersection.
I can only hope someone got the idea to make guacamole out of the wreckage so they're not totally wasted.
I wonder how many avocados were salvageable.
Probably not the one that rolled several hundred feet and into the crosswalk at the intersection.
I can only hope someone got the idea to make guacamole out of the wreckage so they're not totally wasted.
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viridian5 (viridian5) wrote2025-06-25 01:57 am
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The podiatrist cleared me to get out of the boot and walk about with a compression brace/support and a regular shoe, which is a relief since that boot was monstrously hot in this weather. Also, the fracture crack is about 90% filled in now. She says the ankle will still feel tender for another week or two, that's normal.
She didn't think I needed physical therapy though she asked if I wanted it. Having done physical therapy twice a week since February for the car accident neck stuff, I'm so ready for a break from PT for a while. It sounds like I'm about to be kicked off the no-fault coverage for it, so that's coming soon. I don't have resistance bands, but I know some of the exercises for ankles I could otherwise do at home.
I did tell everybody that it was far from the worst sprain I ever had. I mostly worried about the fractured bone.
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"Brothers on a Hotel Bed" by Death Cab for Cutie
For MCU Thor/Loki and Thor & Loki. It twists the song's original meaning a bit, but it's fun for me.
She didn't think I needed physical therapy though she asked if I wanted it. Having done physical therapy twice a week since February for the car accident neck stuff, I'm so ready for a break from PT for a while. It sounds like I'm about to be kicked off the no-fault coverage for it, so that's coming soon. I don't have resistance bands, but I know some of the exercises for ankles I could otherwise do at home.
I did tell everybody that it was far from the worst sprain I ever had. I mostly worried about the fractured bone.
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"Brothers on a Hotel Bed" by Death Cab for Cutie
For MCU Thor/Loki and Thor & Loki. It twists the song's original meaning a bit, but it's fun for me.
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viridian5 (viridian5) wrote2025-06-15 02:53 am
viridian5) wrote2025-06-15 02:53 amThat you live and let die
With the Boot on my left foot, I can't run the uneven ground of cemeteries, but I can still do window displays in the city. I'm interested in seeing if any of the stores do their usual Pride window displays. So far, no, but it's still early June.Saks and Bergdorf Goodman Men's had some Father's Day windows, while Bergdorf Goodman itself put up some new stuff. I've posted 19 photos up to my Flickr.
I have a week or two more in the Boot.
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Mickey 17 was a somewhat confused mass of interesting ideas with a lot of them left dangling and an ending that didn't land for me, but I can't stop thinking about it. The director said that Mark Ruffalo's character wasn't only based on Trump, but did anyone tell Mark Ruffalo that? Sometimes he was so Trumpy, he was distracting. Some people complained about how cartoonishly evil the character and his wife are, but in our current cursed timeline I don't think it's OTT. Some people felt that Pattinson's voice as 17 was too weird, but it grew on me. Mickey has been used, abused, beat down, and then constantly reprinted back to life by people who are far from conscientious. (I still don't know how he can remember all his deaths though. The movie doesn't say if they can manage to get a memory read from the corpse before they recycle it.) In my opinion, Robert Pattinson had pretty good chemistry with himself as different versions of the same character. The comedy is bleak, but I'm up for that.
I wonder how this movie would've felt if Trump hadn't won a second term.
Plus, Mickey 17 is not an adaptation of an already popular IP, a sequel, or a reboot, and I fully encourage thinky, weird movies.
By contrast, We Live in Time didn't work for me at all. Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are great, but the writing didn't do much for me and the narrative being nonlinear didn't help or add anything for me. What I mainly got out of it is that I felt bad for Garfield's character.
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This is the twin of my other birthday gift keychain. I have keys I don't use as often, store loyalty cards, and my NY voter tags that let me check in faster to vote on it.
