Sometimes I think I'm a Horseshoe Crab

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

For 2024, I had named it the year of honey, thinking myself very clever. I did not call it honeyed, sweet, bathed in delight, no: it was the year of honey. I suppose I forgot to ask myself who made the honey, and why, and how. Honey indeed... for others, not me, the defeated worker bee who dropped dead at the end of summer after putting her life force into spoils others would enjoy.

You move your finger up and down the pages of the dictionary until someone tells you to stop, and that's how you pick a page. Then you blindly move your finger around the two-page spread that you get until someone tells you to stop, and whatever word you land on, that's your word.

My word for 2025 was "oophitic." It refers to the texture of a certain igneous rock. I did not encounter such rock. So I don't know how it applied.

Ok I put this on FB but it can't hurt to put here too. We need help with Fantine!

Dog location: Northeast Georgia, just outside metro Atlanta and near the NC/TN/SC borders. TL;DR: Really sweet stray dog has ringworm; current foster is immune compromised; need someone to help by housing her for the duration of her treatment. Only need a short-term foster (approximately a month is the estimate for ringworm treatment? up to six weeks, I guess) and we can help find a permanent placement for her when her treatment is complete.

Details: Fantine is a stray dog we have been fostering for about the last month, she has a wonderful temperament (very sweet and trusting with people, quite resilient, friendly to all the dogs she has met) and is about a year and a half old. She has had all her vaccines and flea/tick/heartworm treatment and was spayed almost three weeks ago. and is healing up from it really well.

She's also ringworm positive, and I have some serious immune-related health conditions. The vet who diagnosed her was worried about her staying in the house with me even though she has been in quarantined in the laundry room and we are being very cautious about biosecurity.