Jun 27, 2025
Dust Mite snuggles into a box of toilet paper.
We subscribe to Who Gives A Crap for our toilet paper (at least for now; they keep increasing their prices and we have a Costco membership, so the battle between do good and inexpensive toilet paper is being a closely fought one) and the TP usually arrives in a WGAC-branded box.
But that’s not what happened this delivery; we had a big old Gilden-branded box plunked down on our doorstep with 65 rolls shovelled randomly into it and a fragment of the original box w/ a shipping label taped onto it I’m guessing that collaboration of flimsy WGAC box & UPS ended up with pallet of shredded boxes and toilet paper rolls rolling all around the UPS warehouse.
(I went into WGAC’s awful website and tried to use their “contact us” page to let them know, but – yes you guessed it – that page doesn’t actually work. I’m not sure why their prices keep going up, but I know it’s not because they’re hiring competent UI people to develop their website.)
—orc Fri Jun 27 23:46:24 2025
Jun 22, 2025
A southbound train left the Tacoma/99E station just as I started to cross the bridge over the line, so I had to stop and take a picture.
—orc Sun Jun 22 21:40:30 2025
Jun 20, 2025
Dust Mite went shopping
—orc Fri Jun 20 01:46:16 2025
Jun 15, 2025
Polson Lumber Company #2 on the left, A Tri-Met Avanto running west on the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail to the right.
—orc Sun Jun 15 23:50:37 2025
Jun 13, 2025
Smol burgers for a smol mite
—orc Fri Jun 13 19:31:13 2025
Jun 06, 2025
A bedtime snack or a cozy place to sleep. Maybe it’s both?
—orc Fri Jun 6 23:38:10 2025
Jun 05, 2025
Little things like seeing my chosen name on a coffee cup makes me happy. TBH, I didn’t think I could be so happy as an ongoing thing after 60 years of increasingly desperate attempts to keep from disintegrating into absolute despair.
Mind you, I still have to clean up the absolute chaos I’ve made of my life, but it seems actually doable now.
—orc Thu Jun 5 23:38:46 2025
Jun 04, 2025
… and taking as many photos as I can of the BN/Bombardier “Type 1” high-floor cars before Tri-Met scraps them.
(I am quite displeased with this decision, of course, but at least the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society is getting one of them.)
—orc Wed Jun 4 19:22:19 2025
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