I have emptied the small cabinet that had all my spices and other baking type things. Half of that is packed. Also cleaned my bathroom which is down to just basic hygiene stuff and makeup. I need to do a lot more in the kitchen but my hips are uber unhappy with me. Taking another break instead.

It's fairly spring-like here. I've done a bunch of garden prep work, cleaned the tub, washed the shower curtain, done about half my laundry, started a load of dishes, and gone for a nice walk. While I'm not looking forward to hearing my alarm clock tomorrow, I am looking forward to having more time for walking in the evening.

Oops. Ten minutes late for the afternoon preview of the show I'm designing. I've decided to use act 1 to get lunch. I'll see act 2.

I hate to do a DST whine. But I am going to. DST on both ends really mess up my internal clocks. For years I would have a good sense of time, just from knowing the position of the sun (living in a non-DST state did this). This fucks with all of that and it takes me FOREVER to get used to it. Took me until December to get used to the Fall Back. Will it be July when I am used to the Spring Forward?

All y'all need to move to Arizona! Since Indiana fell, we are the last remaining continental bastion of pure time.

I'm still disappointed in Indiana, even if it does make it easier to remember what time I'm calling my parents at.

Since I'm on vacation I cannot complain about DST in the "springing forward" way, but I can complain that Mexico apparently has a different DST than the US? So I was in Central time but now I'm in Mountain time? Or something? I'm not even sure--I'm just hoping I show up at the right time to the airport on Wednesday!!

(So far today I showered, read the internet, ate breakfast, laid out by the pool, and am now back and eating some lunch. I'm telling myself this evening I should go out to get a real meal, but all the restaurants are horrid tourist traps (which is why I ate street tacos the past two nights--11 pesos/taco, which is about $1). Also I need to either change money or hit the ATM again, and I don't really want to do either, but know I need to...

The city normally collects $270,000 daily on ASP tickets.)

Holy hell.

Today has been blah, and I'm blaming DST, too. But I did get some laundry done.

Today would be an excellent day to cut back the blackberries, but I just do not have the energy. Sorry, backyard. Getting in some good lap cat time, though, which I do not ordinarily get enough of.

Beau was telling me that when he was at freshmen orientation in college in Washington, he happened to notice a raccoon drag away a suitcase into the woods.

1) is this a common occurrence that raccoons can drag items much heavier than their weight?

2) when the raccoon apocalypse comes, what do we do to protect ourselves?

Today is beautiful so we are planning on going out for a bike ride this afternoon.