Gas tank's marked FULL

It's raining today.

Data weighs a ton.

Just fartin' around

I wonder if sometimes I don't intentionally make life harder for myself.  For example, why would I start somethin' lame when I already have lots of other lame things to do?  What's the point? 

Here's the point:

Sometimes it's good to share some important wisdom nuggets that you have accumulated, usually from old people.

Here's a nugget:

"...this much is crystal clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.  The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs that it had lost the stability necessary to build them, or even to turn off the tap.  Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

"Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free."

- Aldo Leopold
  Madison, Wisconsin
 4 March 1948

                                American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)

                                The Barn, looking towards the oak.                               

                                Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)

It would be nice to go back here for a little bit.

what's a blorg? all the kids blorging these days.

hey, how come everyone has these?  i'm going to have one so i don't fall too behind the times.  also, if i don't write down what i do, i forget it almost instantly. 
to start off, i think i will list some things that i think are good:

1. beets.  i used to hate them, but then i saw the light.
2. birds.  all of them.  and everything about them.  even poop.
3. old people.  they usually have some good nuggets of wisdom.
4. kids.  they say the darndest things.
5. weevils.  or tiny elephants, would you were.
6. anything dairy based.  i have a newfound fascination with farm animals.
7. binoculars. 
8. mechanics.  too bad i know nothing about mechanics.
9. the way different things smell.  i love a good smell.

here are things that i think are, how you say, not so good things:

1. the way some things smell.  some things smell terrible, like usually me and also skunk cabbage.
2. technology and things with too many buttons or one button with lots of functions.
3. grades.  school.  tests.
4. pants that wear out in one month.  ALL PANTS.
5. throwing up.  that shit's the WORST.
6. most people.  don't be one of those people!

mostly i enjoy things in the natural world, especially if they're BABIES!!!

oh, and i also like penguins.  i hugged a whole bunch of these and they did NOT like it.  except one: turbo the penguin.

Does this make sense?  Did this work?