Phone Pics... (Hi, Huell Howser, From California!)

Lost my Kindle Fire, but working on a replacement. In the meantime, here's Colusa and Willows -- Willows is right off the I-5 in Glenn County; Colusa is much further off the I-5: exit the freeway at Maxwell, and go East towards the Sacramento river about 15 to 20 miles, IIRC...

WILLOWS

COLUSA

 Gazebo outside courthouse...

 Police station

 Beautiful palm trees

Upper Sacramento River -- used to be steamboat transit to the delta, on to Oakland, SF...

Still At Willows Walmart #02053

DO NOT BUY THIS MEAT IF YOU SEE IT:

The price might be right, but it could be contaminated/adulterated....

Wouldn't It Be Great If One Could Just Shut Me Down With Accusations of Meth-induced Paranoia?

Weird stuff still going on: AT&T cell calling 911 answered by who? Federal law enforcement?

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Mom's been fucking with the freezers, ruined all of her ice cream last week; cubed chuck gone and replaced by OLD top sirloin from a store we've never been to (but I turned it into a nice meal anyway...); somebody still eating up my cell minutes; I think my brother and others are spying on the car via Onstar; somebody still stealing mail; Walmart has yet to compensate me adequately for bad meat...

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I don't know who's giving lil ol' me grief: NSA? CIA? FBI?

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Weirdness still going on at SF Zuckerberg General's Ward 86 (HIV) clinic; I go back on the 23rd for psychiatry. Must rejigger my medication regimen...

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Matt Damon on The New World Order

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Almost a Mea Culpa, and Kicky Photos of 95979 Weeds

So of course I've made a total fool out of myself, rushing to disclose what among my circle of friends was probably common knowledge anyway, just because the SF Department of Public Health's "remote medical record checking for the Muppet Babies and us" is rather janky.... Just too much dark stuff has happened in too recent a time....

Basically, I had only to read the FAQ (coded in Comic Sans, natch) to know that HIV status and numbers, and other love bug info from one's blood work -- that stuff is not available except through face-to-face with one's provider (a real departure from the old, much-missed MyHero portal.)

I'm sure Val thinks that's hilarious.... But what's the point of providing Ward 86 patients with accounts (mine was first introduced to me last year, and no special mention that HIV or other STD info would not be available through the portal)? (Also, how long will General's Building 80 host the AIDSY, the undocumented, and those whining their best Chloe Webb-at-the-end-of-SID AND NANCY impressions downstairs, as well as Urgent Care on the first floor? Not much longer, I'm sure -- not with Zuckerberg's name on everything.)

Of course, the readers I really care about are the ones who can probably rest easy knowing my viral load remains undetectable, and my CD4 count is fantastic (and since we divulged -- don't you love my blood work? Pretty healthy, n'est pas?)

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With that big lede out of the way, I now bring you lovely pics of this weekend's weeds and volunteers:

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Still a catch (ever swing it my way, Boom? Or maybe Trueluck's still out there, sexy and stuff... I tell you, guys love my Claude Rains impression -- it totally gets them hard! Hard in the penis region!

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And keep an eye out for me on Patreon -- I told them my focus is on photography, but there's lots of creative stuff I do, and I'd love to synergize... Maybe with a fractureme.com "store"? (Thanks for the inspiration in re fractureme, "Bernie"... Hearts!)

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Memorial Day Weekend 2017

Busy day at East Park Reservoir -- all of the spots may be taken! (The cutie-pie Deputy was riding my ass hella hard all the way home from town as I drove my brother's Chevy Bolt -- what an otherwise smooth ride!)

Unfortunately, I may not get to really blowing up my Instagram account, but my big plan is to focus on fauna (mostly animalcules) in the 95979 ZIP....

Yellow Gazannias

Purple Clematis

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2017 Goals

It's a slightly overcast, cool morning, and Eric's come up from Ventura; he's asleep on the couch. Coffee's made, breakfast eaten. The elk just passed through in the North. Clara Nell in town has a job for me today, working in her yard... Today I'm thinking about my goals for June, and they include the following:

• Earn my CPR and First Aid cards through the Red Cross.
• Clean up my LinkedIn page and start networking more through it.
• Meet with Helen after my June 5th psychiatry appointment at Zuckerberg General to discuss my housing options, and moving back to San Francisco.
• Take my driving test with the DMV, and finish earn my driver's license.
• Make out with an age-appropriate Marine veteran.

(I had to throw something fun in there. It's summer after all!) I still intend on working on the house renovations in Stonyford, and helping Mom with that, but Mom's pretty independent, and while we live together pretty well, she doesn't really need me here, and my needs will be better met living mostly in the City...

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FYI

I live in an area populated by people who need painkillers or who (seldom, I'm sure) use heroin. These are, according to Redding first responders on the news, approximately $80 per dose IIRC. I myself am listed as having had Narcan training with the City and County of San Francisco, and can procure a box of them at least once a year...

They are Carpuject cartridges, injectible (similar to the EpiPen.) If an opiate user has darkened in color, and has become non-responsive, one of these can be used to save his or her life. (Bear in mind, of course, that the person to whom it is administered comes out of it in withdrawal -- not terribly pleasant!) Anyway, I'm offering these for free to anybody who contacts me for one (mum's the word -- your business is your own.) I'll try to always carry at least one on me when I'm out and about... Feel free to approach me and talk to me about them...

Save The Moronic, Legitimate, Market-Rate Residents of 26th and S. Van Ness!

I like how this petition's authors hope to gin up opposition to the opening of a homeless shelter by mentioning that it's to be in a "residential neighborhood" (virtually every neighborhood is -- except maybe most of the financial district) with "3 schools nearby," as though homelessness and children are mutually exclusive phenomena (and don't we love the dark implications inherent in the mention of homeless people and hoodlums in close enough proximity to each other?)

(Besides, the whole point of parents' raising their kids in the Mission is so that they can freak the fuck out when the fruit of their loins aren't home by the time BART closes; a body can still procure a decent brick of black tar for $5 a mere 10 blocks away if ever there's a real need for a fix; and the Eula's right up 16th, with suspicious staff hiding behind cages, and hardcore pornography playing in every bedbug-ridden room... Vive la difference!)

[ED NOTE: The Eula may no longer be in business, FYI...]

Original photography/artwork by William Way -- but loosey, goosey: feel free to snatch and pass around all you want; wouldn't mind credit if you can, tho'...

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Wildflowers II

More of what makes our normally unassuming two acres a real show-stopper from the road (if you're on the way West off the I-5 -- exit at Maxwell -- towards Stonyford, why not be one of the rubberneckers who slows down by our humble home? This "main attraction" on the way to East Park or Mendocino Nat'l Forest won't be blooming for long!)

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Dang!

Just heard the sad news, that the historic -- opened 1931, no lie! -- one-screen movie house in the city of Colusa has been closed as a cinema-screening theater (complete with an old-timey box office)  since March 6th. Colusa itself is long-storied and otherwise still thriving, as it has been since the 19th century along the Sacramento river (boats used to haul people to their second homes there from San Francisco, through the bay and up through the delta, long ago...) -- despite the fact that the I-5 has changed so much else of California over the past many decades it's existed.

I wish there was some way someone could help (yes, they are still available for private parties and such, but dang...) I just saw STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE (2016) there in December, right around the time one of my greatest faves Carrie Fisher passed...

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Garden I

Much ado about our wildflowers, but here's a quick break to feature some arresting shots of cultivated flora -- you can get away with just about anything in Zone 7B so long as you're willing to water... The gingko biloba, pictured last, is the surprise breakout of the Spring!

(PS: I never explicitly mentioned it, but any readers may feel free to download images for personal use, such as FB cover photos, or for your own weird stuff. Have at! <3)

Smoke Bush

Rock Rose (Deer- and Drought-resistant!)

Azalea

[Pretty but cannot identify!]

[Some sort of maple -- Japanese???]

Gazania

Gingko Biloba

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I Haven't Baked A Cake Since 2006

But here it is:

Chocolate cake (from scratch!) using Ghirardelli chocolate, real Danish Creamery butter, and organic eggs from neighboring Rosita Ranch... The frosting is coconut pecan.

(My inspiration for this little pre-lunch project is Nadia Hussain: whatever the challenge, she puts her best foot forward; she has a fresh-faced, no-nonsense, kindly attitude; and she totally rocks that black code, always meaning business. Most important, from the first moment I saw Nadia interviewed on TV, I knew immediately that I could file her under, "Not An Evil Bint From Hell" -- Nigella...)

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Pictography: Glenn County, California

Road trip!  (This post inspired by the ebullient, sunny spirit, loaned for too brief a time, originally from God by way of the great state of Tennessee, of Huell Howser, an enthusiast of California Gold...) A wonderland of wilderness, mountainous vistas, greening pastures, cows, almonds, and olives... And this is just the journey from Point A of the Glenn/Colusa border to Point B of Willows, CA -- just four hours North of San Francisco, via the I-5. Check it out!

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URGENT AND ONGOING:  House renovation campaign (Venmo.com, $6K goal, prolly...) - WILLIAM R. WAY PO BOX 206 STONYFORD CA 95979