robert3welchjr.bsky.social
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When I first learned the word 'grimoire' ...

(credit to Pratchett's books found late in life)

This came to mind as the source of high school exploration and adventures...
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
With apologies to Mark Twain, bring back the stocks!!!

Seriously, shame that we need cameras but as I have found
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Still remember the look of my Physics teacher when I mentioned to her that VWR wouldn't sell us any perchlorates due to some new law... sold us glassware though... mortar and pestle sit over on the shelf...
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
As the son of a meteorologist, appreciate the data stream... Had just bought some coffee, driving down 'tank man' freeway and saw this out in the bay from the Mesa... knew what it was... had to capture it from the 10 o'clock news...
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I sat in my trials against the Feds, on and off over 8 or so years... and later on, according to the AJ in supporting SO's unemployment claim denial... from what he was used to, all I needed was the paper...
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
trying out my (😎) new knife this morning... while many stores had Nordic Ware, none carried in store the keeper... SLT new one daughter's birthday... gave her custom fitted cutting board, too... replacement next project into queue...
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
These dogs require so much patience and understanding... Bomoseen is just a big baby... Bomo visits on weekends and adjustment took many months...
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
So delightful doesn’t even taste like ‘chocolate’… too bad can’t be shipped easily… some countries refer to all chocolate as international chocolate… so what would that truly be…
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Wasn't used to them flowering this late in the year... this year's Sprng new plant...
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some how at this point in life I expected that the 'low-T' commercials to kick in, my mistake...
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Was probably a reference in The Atlantic article during a discussion on MSNBC that led me to Melville's The Confidence-Man...
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Remember in the 60s reading Scientific American about 'food adulteration'... while many cite The Jungle... SA has been reporting on this, at least, since 1894... [12 years prior to The Jungle, paywalled]
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Why need to fact check when you have the receipts… notice the disbursement fee…
October 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Surprised you didn't do this too...
October 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I like to roll my own...
October 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hadn't thought about that briefcase for quite a long time... used to get occasional comments from guitar players without knowing the references...
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nothing special... although matched a briefcase I was using at the time... early 80s...
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Absolutely beautiful day...

We're not Antifa
We're not Hamas
We're going to vote to kick Trump's ass...
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Ash & Habor...
October 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Well... Well... San Diego...
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I guess if Diane had been creosoted and feathered and rode out of town on saguaro cactus ribs that would have been the only way to satisify her neighbors...
October 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
When it was owned by the Mesch, Clark, & Rothschild law firm's pension fund...
October 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Asked: $2.6M

Here is what I saw... and remember before fence and work started
October 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I get these here...
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM