(This is a draft quickly pasted from Obsidian, and just a little out of date. Will edit and update soon!) Lady Blackbird is always a good go-to intro for new players. It’s free, and it comes with pregens and a kicker! …

No cute intro, let’s get into it! Homestead The garden outside is doing great—three beds out front full of sweet potatoes, the grow bags full of ginger and peppers out back, and a couple of beds and containers of all sorts of stuff here and there—and our baby hydro setup inside…

Feels like a lot of stuff happened this month, so let’s get into it! Homestead Well, might as well start off with the sad news—one of our chickens, Lucky, died from the summer heat. She was the fluffiest and had the biggest pants, but couldn’t stand three weeks straight of temperatures…

Homestead Still working on getting the hydroponics set up inside. I’ve got it about 80% done, but I still need to build the rack and hook up the pumps and whatnot, and the dopamine for that task has expired, so now it’s just pushing myself to the finish line, there. I…

Wheeeeee that was a month! Lots of travel, not a lot of “being productive”, which is exactly what I was looking for. So, let’s get started… Travel The bulk of April was spent toodling around Europe. Nic was presenting and teaching at a science communication conference in Rotterdam, and figured that…

I have nothing clever to say here, so let’s do this: Homestead Now that the weather is warming up a bit, I’m getting to spend some more time taking care of stuff outside. I’m starting to get the front area of my workshop cleared off—took a bunch of useless plywood scraps…

What is Restorative Justice? Restorative justice is a philosophy and approach to justice that seeks to repair harm caused by some form of wrongdoing. …

Okay, procrastinated long enough… here we go! Homestead So hey, Texas had a huge ice storm early in the month! It was two or three days of trees falling down, stuff crashing and creaking everywhere, and people who don’t know better driving into ditches. A lot of folks nearby had power…

It’s the first month of the new year and… what? It’s over already? FINE. Homestead It was a pretty quiet New Year’s here—we both went to sleep before midnight, I think. My car was in the shop (for two weeks, ugh) so we just hunkered down at home with our new…