This is going to be the briefest and most useless post I’ll probably ever make. But I’ve managed to spend a marginally normal amount of time at work before I extrapolated myself from the chaos of production support. Since then I’ve been cosplaying as a retired person (as a friend of mine would put it), just sitting outside on my porch and trying to figure out how many different types of birds I can identify. I’ve spotted three different types so far, the only one of whom I certain is a crow. He spent an inordinate amount of time trying to clean himself so I’ve determined that a bird bath in the back yard is absolutely necessary. A friend of mine told me that he can just keep using the clogged gutters in my house that they’ve all currently been using but that’s just unacceptable. I’ve also earned I have a birds nest in my roof and that there are way too many types of blue birds in Washington state for me to ever know what kind I encountered this evening. Could this really be happening? Am I becoming a birder? 🐥