10 minutes on a Sunday afternoon

On March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn Uncategorized7 Comments

I think today was the closest I’ve ever come to telling everyone in the house to head for the basement without an actual tornado warning. The top video is out my front window; I saw the first tree across the road fall almost immediately when the wind started, and missed the second one. My wife saw the tree fall in our back yard (second picture) which is the second time that our neighbors behind us have had a tree fall into our yard, thus becoming, by Indiana law, our problem.

The final picture is from maybe 20 minutes later, rain still falling, as every Hoosier-ass dad in the neighborhood and their dogs went outside to wander around and look at the carnage. I may hop in the car soon and see how the rest of the area looks; supposedly there are a lot of power outages nearby but we’re fine.

Yikes.

Today was less exhausting!

On March 27, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

And yet, I find myself sitting at my computer at 8:35 at night with not much to say, especially since I didn’t get home until late and then sat in a chair for far too long. I’m taking the night off; be good to each other.

Welp

On March 15, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Woke up at 5:30 this morning, laid in bed for a couple of hours unable to fall back asleep and finally gave up and got up before eight, and paid for it with a nap this afternoon. Now it’s 8:30 and I legit do not have any idea where half of the day went. How are you?

(Long, drawn-out sigh)

On March 10, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Today was exhausting, and not in a way I can talk about, so I’m just gonna hope y’all had a good day and go shoot some Nazis on my PS5.

Everything still sucks

On February 22, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Went to urgent care this afternoon, to be greeted with more or less nothing more than a shrug; they’r calling in an antibiotic but I’ve been told to not expect much from it as, unsurprisingly, this is probably viral. My lungs are clear, at least, so it’s not pneumonia, which I pretty much already knew anyway. Adding to the fun is that my right ear is suddenly clogged as hell and I’m about to move to the “pour hydrogen peroxide directly in there” stage, which is always fun. I’ve used my ear wash thingy twice this afternoon and it hasn’t done any good.

I read the book pictured above, which did not suck, but I don’t have the energy to do a full review of it; needless to say there is very little chance that I’m not going to enjoy reading a pop-science account of why colonizing outer space is probably going to be a shitton more expensive and complicated than we think it is. I’d prefer the authors came to different conclusions, but them’s the breaks, and I think they’ve supported their opinions more than sufficiently for my expectations.

Oh, and the Pope’s gonna die, it looks like, and I’ve spent most of the day when I wasn’t coughing my larynx out or struggling to breathe contemplating political violence. Which probably isn’t super smart for me to write about but I’ve been shooting my mouth off on BlueSky anyway.

I’m gonna go to bed now, I guess, and I hope to hell I’m at least halfway human tomorrow.