by Ira | Nov 29, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I’ve finally read The Martian. I know. Fourteen years late on that one, but I wasn’t reading much fourteen years ago. I went through decade-plus…probably fifteen years, during my late 20s and almost all of my 30s where I wasn’t hardly reading anything at all. It was...
by Ira | Nov 28, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Go watch 2000 Meters To Andriivka. I, meanwhile, will go watch 20 Days in Mariupol, which I missed the first time around. Same filmmaker. I can tell you that Andriivka is one of more intense docs I’ve ever seen. It’s almost entirely made up of real-time helmet cam...
by Ira | Nov 27, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I’m very thankful today for my family, for Liz and her family, the pups, the Kings and their friends, for my friends… And somehow this post never happened. What a WEEK this was, my god. I’m a month+ removed from this day, now, catching that I never posted it, and it...
by Ira | Nov 26, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Bear is home. Halleloo. By the way, autocorrect tried to make “home” into “gone” just now and that’s hilarious and horrifying because that would literally change that sentence to the opposite meaning. It’s been a week. Feels like Friday even though it’s Monday....
by Ira | Nov 25, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Coops seems to be on the mend. Thank goodness. Still having the bad BMs, but not in the emergency fashion. He didn’t want to eat this morning and was very lethargic, which had me worried…but he perked up after taking him out, and he ate a small breakfast. He then...
