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I should mention that for all of the books I buy each year, I still have 358 on my notify me list that I hope a library grabs them at some point and adds them to libby! #booksky

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 4h

This is the one she came across. I got her trying because I'm not a big fan of pho, but growing up in Little Saigon, a lot of my friends ate this instead. I'm still a big fan of bánh patê sô pork stuffed pastries and it was one of the foods I missed the most when we moved away for a bit.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 22h

There was a time when @tmbg.bsky.social used to play at Royce Hall at #UCLA This was from their last show and I still have so many great memories of it!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 04/10/2026

#BouquetFire - public.intterra.io/app/events/i... From AwareCA app

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 03/10/2026

LOL i found a pic of the day I got the giant footlong dog, bacon cheese burger, and tater tots!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 03/10/2026

Is being set up, or water and food distributed, and the roads are still blocked & cell service is still down, do you know how to walk there??? You might have to! My first GPS was an HP ipaq pda tethered to a Nextel i205 candy bar and it worked great, even off line!! But I still have paper maps!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 03/10/2026

Paper maps, especially Thomas Brothers or the fold up AAA paper maps! And you know what? If you live in an area that experiences any kind of disaster, (so ... Everywhere!) you should still have paper maps! Do you know where every school, church or park is? If that is where the shelter...

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 03/10/2026

We're just a little bit away from the beach so at 530pm it's not too bad but the little A/C is really doing a good job!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 02/10/2026

We're home! Appt was at noon, and we're home at 335 so... yeah... it was a THING. The MRI safe N95 mask worked great, there was no music allowed because of the kind of MRI involved and the machine. Only GE's apparently have the speakers....

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 02/10/2026

They have a new Fire Station which is really nice, but the old station had so much... ahem... character! Up until 2001 it actually housed the HAZMAT task force before it moved to 70s. It's amazing the cluster of truck co's in that area, 88s, 39s, 78s (now), 60, 81, 89, 90s, and 60s.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 01/10/2026

But you can buy 10, scoop out the seeds, bake them and have enough for maybe 2 weeks.. maybe not.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 01/10/2026

So many people I know talk about book buying bans, and I'm over here going "I probably paid for my favorite used bookshop owners new boat.. probably his 5th boat by now" #booksky

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 01/10/2026

Mystic was more stuffed animal than real one... If I was stationary for even a split second, he was asleep on me.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 01/10/2026

Ok this is weird and something I've never come across before. I just grabbed a book from the Los Angeles Public Libraries Overdrive and it's actually an @archive.org scanned book! #booksky

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 30/09/2026

It looked rather interesting, as does the Japanese food fair in OC

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 29/09/2026

but we did one lap around the big circular path and the top circular path too! Oof that elevation was a THING! We also brought Swimmy the LBC Turtle with.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 29/09/2026

In my best @charleeh.bsky.social imitation 5 P.M. at Hilltop. 82F and the afternoon breeze is blowing! Haze over Palos Verdes! No lizards, but lots of boids and a bunch of doggos. Around 25 visitors at the overlook. Everything was kind of rough today (shingles vax)...

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 28/09/2026

64oz of ice cold goodness... best thing I ever bought, especially for late night study sessions in the university library!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 28/09/2026

This weekend we went to the Waves of Ability even in Long Beach at Marine Stadium. No matter what your level of mobility, they had a way for you to get onto the water! Even the heaviest electric wheelchairs were fine!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 28/09/2026

We're starting to see more of the Argentina beef showing up at markets. At least it's clearly labeled!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 28/09/2026

Climate change is real - and one thing coastal cities MUST do is stop this bullshit of making citizens, volunteers, and city staff fill sandbags like this. There is 0 reason your public works can't invest in something automated! #LongBeach needs to do better! Most places need to do better!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 28/09/2026

Hopefully if it's the noun it's either Chicken or Scruffy because ya know we love them both.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 27/09/2026

Is this a camera trick or are my eyes that bad... because it looks like... he's covering the barrel with his hand. That seems unwise.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 27/09/2026

One of the best books on WWII and football has to be Last Team Standing by Matthew Algeo on how the Steagles came to be! Immensely readable and a great primer on football during that era! #histbookchat #booksky

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 27/09/2026

That makes sense! It's a single story really. Honestly, as long as my libby notify list is this large, I'll never feel settled lol.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 26/09/2026

Don't knock the old timey cures... I retired to the seaside and it's the best thing I ever did.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 25/09/2026

Fine. It's noon on a Friday but i woke up, went across the street and grabbed some breakfast burritos from the whole in the wall place that makes the best mini grab and go ones in SoCal

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 25/09/2026

I get the worst skeeter syndrome where the smallest bites soon make my leg flare up in the worst pain. Then someone on here told me about the USB heat pens and honestly??? Bites are so much more manageable and the pain and itching is so much less! First thing that's ever helped!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 25/09/2026

The demise of the Long Beach boardwalk had been greatly exaggerated! Loved or day out today

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 24/09/2026

Speaking of Clodfelter, @hoosierhomer.bsky.social I keep meaning to mention the work of Micheal Clodfelter to you. I think you'd find his book Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 interesting.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 24/09/2026

That was actually pretty hard to narrow down, like... what about silent thunder or harpoon, or 1942, or M1 Tank platoon, or Red Storm Rising or so many others

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 24/09/2026

With enough child coke addicts out there, the labor mines will be hopping once again!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

I'm glad to see the kits are getting more accurate than the old Revell/Monogram Huey hog ones! (but imodeler.com/2019/03/the-... did a good job with his copy)

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

The sunset was pretty nice too. Best thing we ever did was buy a park pass!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

But shortly after my chair was down, these 4 came waddling over! You can see how empty the park is, and they just came over and spent a couple of hours next to me and keeping me company.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

The lake was really nice too, a coolish day with a nice breeze. No bugs or anything to bother us either. Kids are back in school so its absolutely quiet and relaxing as well.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

W had a lot of fun feeding them and spending time with everyone

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

benches were completely ignored. Even if they'd throw out food or bread to try and get the birds to go over. We just seem to have been adopted by this group! Especially Chicken, a muscovy duck that is so sweet and polite, and her 3 big bodyguards!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

This trio, especially the white one decided that even without any food on offer, they wanted to keep me company while I read which was nice. They'd go and get some water and then come back and hang out. It's funny, the other people at the park that were fishing and stuff or just sitting on...

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

Of course I brought my Zero gravity chair so I could relax and enjoy the park while W walked around and later went to the dog park to meet her other furry friends

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

Yesterday was a good day at the park and lake. Scruffy came running up as soon as we walked over and brought a couple of friends too. It's funny because W is the one who always feeds them and I never have until today, but Scruffy and the Geese tend to love to hang out around me as I read....

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

Some more photos ... mostly of Lou and some of the penguins for @dlarue16.bsky.social

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

Just a video from the other day at the aquarium

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

I dunno about best, but here are some of the ones I think about the most. The last one isn't the best photo... but one of the best concerts ... Depeche Mode Playing the Angel tour.

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

I'm old now, I'm quite content to just talk to some ducks and geese and read my book each day!!

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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 23/09/2026

The trick to #1 is three fold - 1) rechargeable power scrubber wand. After I injured my back on the job, this became a life safer for cleaning the tub and elsewhere! 2) Wet and Forget has really worked well too. 3) Generic Melamine foam sponges (generic Magic Erasers)

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