Met a new friend today

 

My first walk of the morning is rarely a challenge; several days of the week I go with my friends, the other days I go to a coffee shop a mile or two away. 

However this never makes up a full 10k steps so I need a 2nd walk, and I prefer to have a goal!

Today's goal was to see if the Greenbridge Library was open - it was - and to find something new to photograph - and I did!

When I posted this on FB, my friend John Brauker who really likes chess said he liked the queen and asked whether there was a full set around town. Now I must go look!

2022 Environmental crimes and protection conference

Kind reminder of the 2022 Environmental crimes and protection conference will take place tomorrow, Friday, on March 18th and the attendance is free of charge this year. A particularly interesting topic (to me) is "The collision of cyberspace and outer space"; other topics include "The Right to Healthy Environment: Indian Perspective during Covid-19", All that glitters is not Green. Electric vehicles and environmental injustice", "Climate Justice and the Green Crime of Ecocide", and "Farm to Plate – The transition of world food system and emerging embedded climate issues around" and much more!
The program starts at 9:45 EST / 14:45 CET, with a small break for discussion from 10:45 – 11:15 AM EST/ 15:45 - 16:15, upon which I will be holding my presentation at 11:45 EST / 16:45 CET. Each and every lecture will last for only 15 minutes this year so you can enjoy a broad variety of topics by experts around the world. This is the program here: https://www.actwithus.org/2022-ecpcprogram/
You will be able to attend if you register via this link: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZIkc-utpzojGtwnOW37X8UQUAmaOPx6_c_-%3F_x_zm_rtaid%3D1pIyPAD8Scm31c80mGLcuA.1647186950193.2b5d85688fe36007117a8c9f2335bfc2%26_x_zm_rhtaid%3D951%26fbclid%3DIwAR3t2t8ieVnCrkN7m96qrgK8KdM_K1216jizLv93u5XW_1lI-cRSAZZEgOQ&h=AT1xvsVVuHcrSZS8g1-R03xgFGsJOvWVQnbRnT6cCfNvMeZJAfxREM00RmmBdqs0XfM3kGgwwJ7Ac0zmEFQqsTLCAFY7jm7E2tNH1CGqk_Qc6Hw69Jbr-RWTbk6A79tm1Q&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3tbZkSVIpcOBulMwX0zDNO04gzNfDOdFWPdi3GFV2YvyiuAP_4bc2lLRvevJ6Z19516iTD-aLdkRe8p6zWggafoDqUroQIn_PLs8HE5tSc5kIjsjIyPgKxodFjdeXo4JWxMzbNuohZ3_ZmC3CnDBN-uk4
Please feel free to forward this to whomever you think might be interested.
(This is a project of the Common Good Foundation, supported in part by the Washington State Bar Association's World Peace Through Law Section)

Just sitting and watching the world go by

 

Every day I take a photo that has a positive impact on me - beautiful, or funny, or just hunh?

This little bear was lying on a sidewalk lost, so I put it up on the wall where it won't get stepped on and - who knows? - its family may find it.

I Am The Winter Radish King!

I Am The Winter Radish King!

 Sundays after a D-and-D session start a little slow because I was up late, but today we had the additional issue of Daylight Savings Time - spring forward. 

I got a decent walk in - although not the full 10k steps:

• Mail GOTV postcards at USPS Westwodd
• Delivering wireframes to Alice. These are the frames uses to hold signs that frequently fall down and get sad. I never take a frame that is current in use (even "Bob Buys Houses") because c'mon someone is trying to make a living, let's let them live! but any campaign sign a month past the election, or any sign that has weathered to unreadability, is just trash and best moved on. Rather than waste the frames, I give them to my friend who uses them to advertise a community event.
• Coffee at Missing Pieces. Some day I'll meet friends here and boardgame, but in the meantime it's a convenient stop for coffee as I make my Sunday morning rounds
• Fill up backpack with veggies at the family market on 16h
• And home with a backpack full of food and a bag full of flattened aluminum cans. It's a walk!

I unpacked and did a little cleanup. This included pulling the most obviously ready of the radishes and getting a photo. Radishes are a fine winter crop for me since they take little work but keep growing over the winter. 

4PM was gaming with Ed's friends (Sabatour this week, mostly), and then the WSTB book club.

After all that it's time for a little cleanup and then bed. I suppose this is a good day, better than many people are having in Ukraine and elsewhere. I feel quite helpless to do anything other than GOTV and donate a little money here and there - such as here Free Continuing Legal Education: War in Ukraine: A Ukrainian Lawyer's Perspective (On-Demand CLE) (4freecle.blogspot.com)