Be the flow

Yesterday, Fern Ridge Wildlife Area

I just read dangerousmeta!’s post musing on 25 years of blogging. I started my first blog in the same month—December 1999. Garret is an interesting and passionate writer. And he’s a serious guy. He gives a bit of advice in that post: “[N]ever write because you feel you have to. Never use AI to compose posts.” Hah! Guilty on both counts! ($RANDOM coin anyone?) But that’s okay. We’re different people living in different reality tunnels. I personally have no advice to give beyond breathe and be yourself (but only if you want to!).

Random notes, as they arise as thought bubbles….

Radio Free Random is apparently on a slight hiatus. There’s an area where I know I can’t force it. DJ Mr. Random will be back on the air sooner or later. Meanwhile—and I know you know, but there’s a huge archive of transmissions linked here and here and here. Yeah, you can’t chat or make requests while listening to a recording, but you can still get that magic RFR vibe, man!

The Tinycats (Griffin and Fleur) pile onto the bed every night and take up a significant number of square inches, forcing us humans into sometimes rather contorted positions to accomodate their furry little bulks. But Betty stays off the bed and usually sleeps in another room. However, last night she slept most of the night on my “nap blanket,” which is folded and placed on the bottom shelf of the bookcase next to my side of the bed. I thought I heard somebody down there in the middle of the night and reached down and felt fur. Then a loud PURR started up and went for ten minutes. Maybe that’s her overnight place now.

I made a Bluesky account yesterday just to see what the buzz was about. I probably won’t be any more active there than I am on X. Bluesky is really just “blue Twitter,” rather like a self-defined mirror image to X, I suppose—if you see X as “far-right.” Although, truthfully it just depends on who you follow. I refuse to go exclusively with one “side” or the other in the Great Bifurcation. I’m not here to fight! It’s all very interesting and indeed full of potential edutainment. One’s experiences all depend on who/what/where you are—on the role(s) you find yourself playing, on what scene(s) you happen to find yourself in. “All the world’s a stage” and all that, you know. We are going through huge cultural shifts right now, and I don’t think it’s wise to grab on to anything for dear life. I say breathe and be the flow. Thank you for reading.