otoh, still super pissed that the Neko Case show tomorrow was cancelled. WAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Gris, that is good to hear. We only hear the worst of it so hard to be objective.

Yeah. And the articles make it sound rough. And maybe it is! Again, I'm solidly in a bubble within a bubble, and I don't speak Portuguese, so I'm hardly connected. But not too many people around me seem truly scared, so hopefully that is what's true.

Personally, I think it's probably a good thing that the former super-popular president Lula, who was jailed either for actual corruption or on a trumped-up charge of corruption depending on who you ask, was not able to run for President again. Maybe he'll be able to let it go and that will result in some calming. His party has chosen another candidate and it wouldn't surprise me if that candidate eventually ends up winning after a runoff election with the crazy authoritarian militarist, though that's still very much up in the air. From a purely analytical point of view, it feels a bit like France - the crazy right-winger has a clear ceiling, so the person who eventually wins after the runoff will probably be somebody not particularly popular but also clearly not nuts, like Macron is/was. Personally my politics line up pretty well with the workers party that has been in power, but the corruption in their ranks is pretty obviously real, so it wouldn't bother me to see another party take the lead for a while, even if I don't agree with that party's ideology as much.

So long as its not the crazy militarist. If he wins, well, things may get much more awful.

Didn't need to get said twice.

otoh, still super pissed that the Neko Case show tomorrow was cancelled. WAAAAHHHHHHHH!

MEEE TOOOO! Though, so far, it has just been rescheduled, to an unknown date that they are still working out. So we may yet be able to go! SOMEDAY.

Yay for clean son, Laura!

We actually know where the headlamps are located, for once.

I feel like this is a sentence I could have typed about my own household. (We have many headlamps, no lie. There is the This Is For When Tim Goes Camping headlamp, and the Well It's Pretty Old But It Still Works So We'll Keep It [somewhere] In Case the Power Goes Out headlamp, and the 2 matching headlamps that my dad gave us, which are the My Dad Bought A 3-Pack of Headlamps at Harbor Freight Tools and Kept 1 for Himself But Gave Us the Other 2 Headlamps headlamps.)

And there might be one in the car's glove box, too.

Our new couch and chairs arrived today! It's the first new living room set I have purchased since my very first set 16 years ago! I feel all fancy and adult.

Gris and Karl, it's good to see your pixels. I hope things work out in Brazil, Gris.

So far in my part of NC there's mostly been the occasional stiff breeze and rain shower. I'm sure it'll intensify tomorrow. Still, I have rye whiskey and multiple charged battery packs, so here's hoping for a good weekend.

In unrelated news, I'm going to Helsinki for my birthday! A friend has the option of bringing someone with her to a conference in October, and she asked if I'd like to go. Of course, I said yes. So I'll have a week to explore a lovely city in the country half my family came from, back around 1890 or so. There's probably a second cousin or two to look up. I'm sol ooking forward to it.

ETA: OK, that spider video is adorable.

I woke up to surprise cramps & a liquid gut (related.) Called into 2 meetings, mostly slept the rest of it off to the point of anxiety nightmares with my feline hot water bottle, Loki, on my torso. He's really good for that. Right weight and warmth. Not amused at my body starting to replay my 20s every few months. Doesn't help that I haven't been able to swim this week & that usually mitigates things somewhat. But my pool opens tomorrow & I'm fucking there for80 laps, week away bedamned.

We are supposed to get rain. A lot of rain and wind , but it won't be as strong when it gets through here. There might be power outages due to downed power poles and trees. Especially since the ground is already saturated.