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I have so many postcards to send! So much sourdough bread to bake! A train adventure that’s location changes during the trip! It is a good week and I look forward to reading back on this again, one day.

Monday June 9th, 2025

Postcards!

Postcard to Dan in Austin, Texas!

Postcard to Tony in Michigan!

Postcard from Germany (that’s amazing)!

Postcard to Czechia!

Keanu sitting like a weirdo!

Postcard to Quebec!

Keanu laying like a weirdo!

Monday June 10th, 2025

I recently purchased a kit for making Sourdough bread.

My partner Lauri has a coworker who makes sourdough, so sourcing the starter was very easy.

Thank you Lauri and thank you coworker.

Here’s what my postcard shelf looks like.

Loads of pens, pencils and markers as well as stickers, Washi tape, stamps and postcards galore.

Speaking of stickers, I recently bought some from eBay that were really cute, and to even out the purchase I ordered two different sets from the seller, but I had to send one back for being AI bullshit.

If you enjoy stuff like this, no shame, but please don’t sell it.

I’m getting pretty sick of people trying to sell AI slop. I would not have purchased these stickers if I had known they were generated, and now the seller has to pay for return shipping and the loss of the sale for not accurately labeling it.

Shame.

Wednesday June 11th, 2025

Blep.

Tonight we are going to head over to Roosevelt Island to see the lighthouse on the Northern side of the island.

To the ferry!

To the trawls!

Till shoppers return to malls!

Ahh skeet skeet skeet.

We had a nice slow stroll and a picnic before heading to the lighthouse.

Roosevelt Island is a chill place.

And we made it.

We’re here a little bit longer than we mean to be and we’re not sure if we can catch the next ferry back to Queens.

There’s a bridge that we can probably take, though.

It was hard to figure out where to get off of the elevator.

There was a British or Irish person who was also trying to find the bridge, but we worked together and found it.

Not as far from home as I would have thought.

May just walk to Roosevelt Island next time.

Thursday June 12th, 2025

Tonight we are seeing Randy Feltface again for his Bananas tour. This is the one that is being filmed for the Netflix special. Or HBO special. I’m not sure. There was a camera crew.

I sent Tony a postcard from the show!

Well, from the bar that we showed up early to since it was a general admission show and we didn’t want to get stuck with bad seats.

Fun show.

Bananas were thrown.

Friday June 13th, 2025

The sourdough bread is coming along.

When the bread comes out of the Dutch oven, it’s super crispy and amazing, but after a few days the crust isn’t crunchy any longer.

I wonder if it’s because the Dutch oven holds in the moisture?

Maybe buying a bread box would fix this.

I left the hallway closet open today after grabbing some tools to work on the bathroom door and Penny found the craft pipe cleaners.

She does not feel guilty about this.

Saturday June 14th, 2025

Today the play is to take a train to the last stop and explore the area.

I head to Grand Central station and grab the train that goes into Connecticut with an e-ticket to the very last stop of New Haven.

Along the route I look up the places along the way to see what might be worth stopping at and I discover that Bridgeport, which is about three quarters along my route is the largest city in Connecticut.

It also offers thrift shops that are closer to the train stations than the other towns along this route, so I get off a bit early.

We get it Bridgeport.

You have bridges.

Jeez.

I woke up pretty early to really get out here today and I’m dragging a little bit, so my first goal is to get some coffee somewhere.

I was able to find a Dunkin near the train stop.

A drama filled Dunkin.

While waiting in line a worker refused a customer’s order after the customer called the worker a bitch.

The worker was handling herself very well and a man with the angry lady was trying to talk her down with things like “Let’s not get kicked out of this place.”

The clerk tells me that this is a frequent occurrence and suggests this nice pistachio drink that I enjoy.

I decide to make a trip to a zoo here in town.

I check first to make sure that it is accredited and it is.

This one specializes in caring for animals at risk of extinction.

It is a nice walk.

Weird sign.

Probably put up by drug dealers.

I wish I had grabbed something to eat at Dunkin. I’m getting hungry, now.

Oops. Someone lost a bag of trash.

I’ll get it out of the road.

Look at this old building!

This feels like the kind of place that was in old educational videos about industry.

Old timey voice “And this is where the fluids are deposited for cooling.”

Oh good, there’s a cheap restaurant near the zoo.

I ask the fellow at the counter what he suggests and the all beef chili dog is the recommendation.

Absolutely delightful and reasonably priced.

Almost there!

Still going, but almost there!

Whew!

Made it.

The Beardsley zoo.

Home of vultures.

Oh, and I’ll check out the gift shop on my way in.

Hoping they have postcards, but there’s not a lot of time left in the day before they close so I want to make sure that I have time to look around and decide what to get.

Maybe I’ll buy something now and carry it around if the shop closes early.

They do close early, but they also don’t have anything I’m super into buying right now.

Except this.

But I can get this anywhere and I don’t want to carry it around all day.

Some other time.

CATS!

Oh uh, it heard me.

This place is in a park and has kind of a weird layout.

Like this fenced off bridge to the rest of the park?

An owl!

It is a rescue.

I mean, I think all of the animals are rescues here.

I…

I can’t tell what this is a picture of.

I also don’t remember.

So…

Enjoy the black bear or badger or puma.

Also there’s a whole gopher thing here. Or groundhog.

Fuck.

I do not know animals very well.

The pop-up tubes are clearly for kids.

There is no way that I can squat and twist to get my head up into one of these.

Luckily because of the rain there are not many visitors here today.

I watched this anteater pace back and forth for a long time.

I think he wanted to be with his other anteater friend on the other side of this fence.

And of course, take a moment to look for termites.

What!?

Warthogs?

Amazing!

And foxes too!

This wolf was like the anteater.

It was pacing along the fence line.

So many rare species of animals here that may not be around for much longer.

Time to head to the thrift store.

I don’t have a lot of time and I wasn’t able to figure out how the bus system works, so I paid for a rideshare.

My pal Tony in Michigan, when we were roommates he was a software engineer in Visual Basic 4.

This book brought me back, so I sent him a picture.

I did find some nice button-up shirts for a reasonable price, which is what I do cam shows for.

I mean “what I came for.”

Time to head home.

I’m closer to a different train station than the one that I departed the train from.

The ticket back was cheaper since I wasn’t buying a ticket from end-to-end like I did on the way out.

Four or five dollars cheaper for the return.

Tonight we see a rakugo comedy show off Broadway.

Another great show!

If you’re in NYC when Katsura Sunshine is performing, please stop by. You’ll have a good time.

But that is enough fun for this week.

Back to work.

Unless I can talk Keanu into doing my work for me….