As someone who lives here, ballotpedia made it easy:

Candidate 1) I believe we should empower all kids to get the education they need to understand the world and those around them. We will do this by x, y, z.

Candidate 2) Get boys out of girls sports.

I was still shocked at how close it was.

The exorcist.

Yeah. A sad ignominious end for any spacecraft. I was hoping we’d learn some more about surviving entry at least.

That’s the hardest thing, to figure out what’s saber rattling, what’s distraction, and what’s actual plan.

Thanks. And vice versa.

The children long for the mines.

Anytime the GOP brings up crap like this, I wish their base would realize just how un-pro-life they actually are.

It is a neat place! Hard to convince people that a cactus garden can be interesting.

My son and I just watched this a few days ago—going through the whole series. About 15 minutes in he (13) asks “did David Fincher direct music videos”? Yeah, his style is all over it. And we really enjoyed it. Much better than it is ever given credit for.

When do keys release?

Not just the pages but the data feeds.

For the longest time I concentrated on mixing colors. And if I’m hiking I certainly take fewer colors. But if I have room, I find using more tube colors so much faster. Except for orange. Still haven’t found a good orange that I can mix with other colors without it getting muddy.

I’ve been thinking about various travel setups for gouache—oil takes up too much room sometimes. Would you rather have more colors or mixing palette space?

That’s what brought me to art—I was layering transparent airbrush paints, and they weren’t behaving how I expected. So I started studying pigments with watercolors, and one thing led to another. Now I absolutely love Plein air painting.

It was amazing to be there in the moment. I was just watching the deer graze from my car, taking photos as they’d look around. Suddenly the geese appeared, and I started watching them. And then noticed I wasn’t the only one watching the geese.