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  A migrating cormorant stopped by the neighbourhood pond! The mallard was like “uh what is this?” #Birds

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  I have to post/mail my luggage from València to my hotel in Gijón this year, either Correos or DHL. Should I bring my laptop? It would be used nearly half the days of the trip and I’m not good with mobile/iPad typing. (Would not take it on the Camino). I usually leave it with a friend in Barcelona, which I won’t be visiting til the end of the trip.

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  We watched most of Buen Camino tonight, the Italian movie about a White Lotus-type family on the Camino, and it was way better than I expected. Funny with heart, typical Italian. It got me excited about my upcoming Camino...which I'm still debating on cancelling. I purposefully scheduled four days in València for hikes around my old home and because last year coincided with a gota fría which the entire city was closed in case of flooding like the 2024 DANA. Guess what? NOTHING BUT RAIN IN T...

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  Snowpiercer the movie is better than the graphic novels...how's the show?

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  Either the local hummingbirds hadn’t migrated yet or we have a couple that are migrating that found our feeder. It’s adorable how one comes for the mate and they fly off together. And return for more.

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  Aww, New Found Glory is a fave. May Chad Gilbert RIP. https://ew.com/chad-gilbert-new-found-glory-founding-guitarist-dies-at-45-12130536

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  Doing a 25th anniversary rewatch of The Others, which I probably haven't seen since 2001...and it's...not as good as I remembered, but my concentration is also shot today. Nicole Kidman is great, but Moulin Rouge! was the far superior film.

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  38. Dearly Departed by Chip Pons. Hades is no longer the king of the underworld but a funeral home owner named Hayden and falls for the town floral arrangement guy. Tedious read, especially since I had high hopes after Winging It With You :-/

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  I'm really over not being able to concentrate on anything #ADHD

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  This week's Wednesday Foreign Film is El vampiro negro, an Argentine noir from 1953 that was well worth watching.

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  This week's Sunday Vintage Film was Band Wagon, which might be my first Fred Astaire. It was a lot of fun and worth a watch. Apparently it was a rewatch as I had rated it in 2014 on IMDb lol.

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  Probably the closest I’ll ever get to having my ducks in a row. 🦆 #Birds #Ducks

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  A pair of movies today. Charlie Bartlett was better than I expected, from 2007, about a teen who gets kicked out of boarding school and becomes his public school's new prescription drug dealer. Testosterone was one I enjoyed in the mid 2000s, despite the bad pronunciation of my name...alas, due to the political affiliation of the two leads, this movie hasn't aged well, but it is fun watching both try to play gay. Jennifer Coolidge was Jennifer Coolidge and stole the movie, along with...

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  Looks like the cardinal couple has a healthy young lady to raise, one who has spent the day in a bird feeder. #Birds

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  S3 of Halt and Catch Fire is off to a good start. Feeling somewhat better but still a bit off...executive functioning has ceased to exist this year (and since I'm AuDHD...it was barely there to begin with). Hopefully a good night's sleep and I'll be back to "normal" tomorrow.

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  19. A Crushing Walk in Cornwall by Nicholas George. Chase's third long-walk in England with a murder. I might be the oddity that wants more of the walk (and Chase's relationship with Mike!) and less of the murders; that's also the hiker in me who burnt out on murder mysteries in the 90s.

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  Will be redoing the list of LGBTQ+ books this week (I think around 34 books), so apologies in advance! Not going to worry about the movie lists.

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  Time for the second jab of the HPV vaccine. Yes, cis guys should get it too!

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  Foggy morning at River Bend, heard more birds than I saw and the ones I saw didn’t want their photos taken, except for this male cardinal who escorted another male cardinal out of its territory and then sang loudly, convinced it was inconspicuous. I also saw a wood duck, blue jay, tons of catbirds, and an Eastern Kingbird. #Birds #Outdoors

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  Sorry for another Camino poll/more indecision. Turns out there isn't an affordable place to stay in the town of the first night, as the place I was going to stay is 6 km away and has no way to reserve, questionable if even open. 1 means bus to next town, next morning bus back and walk 2 means visiting either Elche or Cartagena for that extra time 3 means Camino Vadiniense in reverse from León to Santo Toribio (Picos de Europa!) So here are the options...

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  I got a bit excited when Morgawr by Terry Brooks, the third in the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series, introduced a prime minister as I thought it might go into more of the political structure but nah, more of the same...think the second was the best of this trilogy. #Bookstodon

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  So...Camino plans have hit a glitch. As I was studying the night I end the first etapa in...turns out that the only inn in the pueblo is six km outside of town and its reservation system is non existent. I could be normal, just either do two nights in Lorca or the next stage end and bus back and forth or just skip the first stage and spend the night in Elche, bus to Lorca, then bus to the next town, but I'm me and want to redo all the Camino plans to be in the Picos. In October.

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  Halt and Catch Fire S2 is really getting good, and I'm so glad we stuck with it (boyfriend works in tech so of course he likes it. It does raise the question, is James Cromwell that unlikeable or does he just play really horrible, hateable characters? (I've hated him since Six Feet Under.) Oh, and both Nathaniel and now Sober Greg from Crazy Ex Girlfriend have shown up.

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  Switching the Wednesday Foreign Flick with the Friday movie this week, so the Wednesday Foreign Flick was Antonioni's Cronaca di un amore from 1950. Not his best work but entertaining enough.

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  No longer going to keep the Wednesday and Sunday movies in a thread. I'll be copying and pasting the LGBTQIA+ book thread this weekend from Bluesky, as I think there is more interest in that one besides my own keeping record.

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  I just barely finished July's Stephen King re-read on time...The Talisman (with Peter Straub) is one of my faves, first read in 2021. I didn't like the sequel as much so wonder how the third one will be (Jack ends up in Ohio and meets Holly Gibney?) #Bookstodon

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  The bird of the day theme today over on BlueSky is Egrets and Herons, which gives me an excuse to share the Great Blue Heron I ran into on Wednesday that felt this was a great place to perch. #Birds #Herons

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  Before I change my mind again, I have ALSA bus tickets from València to Alicante, Burgos to León (for post Camino holiday) and León to Gijón, train from Granada to Córdoba and Córdoba to Zaragoza. Now somewhat locked into Camino plans 🙃 All refundable, of course, because this timeline…

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  I accidentally deleted the thread for Wednesday Foreign Flick :-/ I had to skip it today as I had a DVD hold in from the library, Omaha...which was depressing AF. Should have waited to watch that one tomorrow. Will watch some foreign film tomorrow though!

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  We had an adventure this morning near Peoria at Sand Ridge State Forest. I think I believed their PR a bit too much about it being a beautiful, sandy forest. It was just typical Illinois with sand. But the nearby Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge was awesome (and even saw pelicans in the distance 😍) Pics to come.