We ride at dawn tomorrow. Actually we're driving, and it probably won't be dawn, either. Our first stop is Bullhead City, and yes, it's actually called that.
Who saw this before it was deleted? 47 put it up after his pissing contest with the Pope.
Oh happy day. Orban has conceded defeat to Péter Magyar. Hopefully Orban and Putin will not launch into a "the election was stolen" a la 47, and they'll just go away.
I believe my father's mother was Hungarian. She came to the US alone at age 17. I don't know if she had people here to help her, or what happened after she arrived. Eventually she married and had eight children. My grandfather died before I was born. I'm pretty happy about the defeat of Orban. This will be good for Ukraine, and bad for Putin and 47.
Witkoff, Kushner and the VP spent 12 or so hours "negotiating" with Iran yesterday. Iran said no to every proposal offered by the US side. As you no doubt recall, the JCPOA took two years to negotiate. The people from the US went home after one session. Today 47 is threatening to blockade the Strait. I'm reading that the helium will be gone in six months in the US, if you need an MRI, get it now.
We're leaving Tuesday morning. The car is impossibly full. At this point, I'm not sure it's all going to fit, which is fairly depressing. We'll see.
Here is a lovely trichocerus. It's sort of an unusual color.
Here is a first world problem for all of you Kindle owners.
Amazon
is discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or
earlier, effectively "soft-bricking" them by blocking access to the
Kindle store and new content downloads after May 20, 2026.
While existing locally stored books will remain, devices cannot
download new content, rendering14-18 year-old, working units into, in
effect, paperweights.
47 is dismantling the Forest Service. Decades of knowledge and research will be dumpstered, fire seasons will be worse, post fire landslides will be worse. They're planning to sell off vast swaths of land for logging. Good bye little woodland creatures.
That's it! Gotta start packing in earnest.
Welcome to Tuesday. Today would have been my brother's birthday, but he died young. Really early onset Alzheimer's took him.
This is how today started. This level of destruction would probably require nuclear weapons. This would be bad. However, he TACOed. He's given the Iranians a two week extension on extermination, IF they open the strait. No word on how that's going. Current negotiations are being held by Pakistan and Iran, and then China entered the conversation. China and Pakistan really need the strait to be open.
We rode this morning, it was very pleasant, not too hot. We both had a good bike day. A good bike day is when you feel strong on the hills, and not like you're dying. We've both had a recent spate of feeling like death on the bikes. I'm hoping it's over for awhile. Figures we'd get better now, we're leaving next Tuesday.
Examine the spines on this cactus. They're extraordinarily long. The plant is barrel shaped. The flowers are what first caught my eye, very pretty. Google identifies it as an Astrophytum ornatum cactus.
This is from yesterday. The first is the President of the US publicly threatening to commit war crimes. Why is he still in office? I can not believe he or his office put this out. "Iran" is calling him out for it.
It suddenly occurred to me that it's Easter. I knew that this morning, but then we rode, and then I caramelized onions in a cast iron skillet and sort of forgot the whole thing. If you celebrate, I hope you had an excellent day of it.
