Author Archives: mygothlaundry
It’s Only Early January
Well! What a fun week it has been! Jesus wept. I mean we started out with the “President” of the US kidnapping the president of Venezuela and it’s just gone downhill from there. I could write at some length about … Continue reading
2026 Photo A Day
Here we go – while I usually wait 7 years between photo a day adventures, I decided that given the accelerating pace of the world, 5 years would be enough. So I’m doing it again for 2026, this time with … Continue reading
Hello from the Ongoing Slow Motion Apocalypse
Hello! It has been almost two years since I updated this blog – I know this because my granddaughter is now referred to as The Toddler and she will be 2 entire years old in July. She is still perfect, … Continue reading
Plague Diary 473: The Emperor’s New Plague
On Wednesday evening, I went back to the county fairgrounds and had my Moderna booster shot. On Thursday morning, I was fine – until around 10:30, when I fell asleep and stayed that way on and off for the next … Continue reading
Plague Diary uh 23 or something: Hi. I have it.
Well, hello again! Welcome back to the Plague! We all thought it was over, but surprise, surprise, it is not. To recap the last four months, I got my second shot, was duly quite ill for a day or two … Continue reading
Plague Journal: Vaccination, Part 1
I got my first shot yesterday! Of course I have created a small photo essay, all watercolorized because it feels creepy to take pictures of strangers getting medical treatments. That would be because it is creepy, but now that it’s … Continue reading
The Plague Year
On Thursday, I’m having a colonoscopy. That means that on St. Patricks Day, I will literally be shitting my guts out. Now, I am not going to say that this is the first St. Patrick’s Day I ever spent with … Continue reading
Phone Woes
I have been having a rough time with phones. I’m going to write about it so I remember and also to warn other people and also to plaintively ask, how the FUCK exactly did we as a people get to … Continue reading
Cursed Camping Trip
Yesterday, we went camping. This was a semi planned trip – semi, because the original plan was to go last weekend, which was a three day weekend, and go to Nehalem Bay State Park and listen to the ocean. Well, … Continue reading
Seven Years – Time Again for Photo A Day
I gave up on the plague diaries, not because the plague has ended (oh ha! ha ha! How wonderfully naive such a thought would be!) but because it is just how we live – or die – now. If this … Continue reading