WordPress is really going all-in on AI tools, but you have my assurance that I made/cropped all these photos myself, with my phone and GIMP, and then I typed in all the text and searched for all the links with a keyboard and mouse.
I’ve been feeling better. After six weeks of lying around doing nothing, I need to work back up to taking long walks and doing errands on foot, but I’m back to doing stuff.

December 28, 2025

December 28, 2025
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Joseph looks kind of shocked that it’s all true.
December 28, 2025

8:25 a.m.
December 29, 2025

I’m not allowed to show the final project, so this might be all you get.
(I know the checked fabric is awful, it’s one of the challenge fabrics that must be used.)
December 31, 2025

Ran across this after a dude on a bicycle tried to run over my FIL on this sidewalk.
Garching bei München.
January 2, 2026
The next three photos are from a “Krampus Stroll”, a public performance of the Frisinga Fratzen, a troupe of witches and Krampusse that appear at winter events throughout the region. I always enjoy going out to see them.

This whip is horsehair; others carried the traditional bunch of branches for beating on the brats.
January 3, 2026

January 3, 2026

January 3, 2026



