2025-03-21

I don’t know which tree it was, but one or more in my neighborhood had a bumper crop of seeds this year. For the past handful of days I have been plucking tiny saplings from WLF’s garden beds constantly. Yesterday I also discovered that I had erroneously transplanted a tree sapling which had snuck its way amongst a group of seeds I planted and have been keeping alive indoors.

Wordle: four, my starter was ENTRY

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2025-03-20

The other day I stopped into a South Carolina Goodwill and found the BluRay that I was seeking, Avengers: End Game. This movie was shot in part in Atlanta, and the Stark Industries building was the office building in which I was working when the movie was shot.

However, this Goodwill must have been smoking crack that day, because the BluRay was priced at $7.99! Remember, Goodwill most likely paid $0 for this…

I left the store without it.

Wordle: four, my starter was DITCH

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2025-03-19

This morning I looked at the small luggage combination lock that I purchased last weekend, and much to my surprise the instructions are only in German!

Bedienungsanleitung
Code-Einstellung ab Werk 0 – 0 – 0
Zur Personalisierung gehen Sie wie folgt vor:
1. Vergewissern Sie sich, dass der o.g. Code eingestellt ist. Überprüfen Sie hierzu die sichtbaren Zahlen im seitlich eingelassenen Codefenster an der Stirnseite.
2. Schieben Sie den Schalter unten auf der Rückseite von links nach rechts.
3. Stellen Sie Ihren Wunsch-Code durch Drehen der Räder im Codefenster ein.
4. Schieben Sie den Schalter auf der Rückseite von rechts nach links.
5. Nach Einstellen des gewählten Codes drücken Sie den silbernen Knopf – das Schloss öffnet sich.
6. Zum Schließen platzieren Sie das Kabel in die Öffnung und verändern Sie die Zahlen im Codefenster.

This made sense when I saw that the company, Munkees, is a German company.

I’m about to spend a short while trying to translate the instructions to English prior to giving up and going to the company’s website.

Wordle: three, my starter was DRONE

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2025–03-18

Home again. Good conference, if not a bit basic, but a couple of sessions did push me to learn more about mushrooms.

Yesterday’s outings to Pancho’s for beer and chips, and the to The Collonade for dinner, were fun, but very bad for my wallet and waistline.

Wordle: three, my starter was TRADE

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2025-03-17

Happy 5th COVIDversary everyone! Five years ago I left my office for the final time, well, except for returning once to claim my personal items. Five years ago today I was sitting at home watching The Dropkick Murphys perform their annual St Patrick’s Day concert, only this time to no audience.

Today I will be getting my second dose of St Patrick’s Day Mexican, since I will continue my tradition of Mexican on St Patrick’s Day. Yesterday I ate at the only restaurant in Mars Hill open on a Sunday, Rio’s Mexican Kitchen.

Wordle: four, my starter was VIRUS

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2025-03-14

One of the ongoing tasks I’ve started this week is decluttering my inboxes by unsubscribing from mailing lists such as “hotel offers”, and “promotions”, in which I no longer have interest. Hopefully this virtual decluttering will inspire physical decluttering.

Wordle: four, my starter was SLIDE

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2025-03-13

Added another raspberry plant and gooseberry plant to the ever-expanding WLF. How am I ever going to reach escape velocity if I keep planting long-term plants?

Wordle: three, my starter was KRAUT

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2025-03-12

While it turned out that some of the hashers who ride on Tuesdays skipped last night’s Black Sheep hash, I had to skip the ride because Amazon didn’t arrive in time for me to drive to Decatur by 6:30pm. Instead, I spent time putting up the light which was delivered into the rack I salvaged from the trash recently, and transplanted some seedlings into Solo cups to put under the light.

Wordle: four, my starter was CHASE

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2025-03-11

Waited for the rain to stop before getting out for a walk yesterday. Fingers crossed, I will be making my return to Meltons for a bike ride tonight; need more time in the saddle.

Wordle: three, my starter was ENTRY

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2025-03-10

I was pleased to sleep until 5:30am yesterday morning, until I remembered the time change had occurred so I only slept until 4:30am.

Did we move the clocks forward again? This morning I slept until nearly 6:30am!

Am I imagining more wind and stronger gusts this year?

Wordle: three, my starter was DIRTY

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