Roady @Roady_Dragonfae@awoo.space

Seriously. While most shibas are fierce like samurai, Koko is a Zen Buddhist monk.

We're at Ballard Locks and Koko enjoys people watching as much as I do! Got her a little green shirt to cover up her belly and a salve to rub on it.

Oh my god... I reached down to pet Koko and now she's climbed up onto my bed and burrowed under the covers with me. I can't believe how fast we're bonding!

Part of it had to do with the local Daiso stocking curry cup noodles and baby star ramen chips. Two things I haven't had since I studied abroad six years ago.

Holy Fuck. I'm feeling so much nostalgia for Japan that it's driving me nuts. Kumamoto and the surrounding area was so beautiful that I wanna hop on the next plane across the pacific and relive the excitement of exploring Kyushu for days on end.

Given my current work situation is outdoors, I can easily set her up under a tree with food and water and take her for walks during lunch.

Cleaned out my place in preparation for meeting this darling! Koko is a 3 year old shiba inu from a family with three children.In no other circumstance would I consider adopting a Shiba. The aggressive traits were trained out of her so she's playful, well behaved, and gets along with animals incredibly well!

She has allergic breakouts on her belly arrtibuted to fur loss, which may mean it's a chemical like laundry detergent or fertilizer. It's growing back, slowly but surely.

Also known as "Bear Root." Also known as "Love root." Because when bears dug it up and ate it, the amount of oxytocin in the plant caused them to start nuzzling each other...

That's fucking adorable!

I really suck at staying active on IM chats. The longing for meatspace interaction is all too real.

Well, the court mitigated my fines from a $958 ticket down to $195. That finally closes this wonked up chapter in my life. Whew.

There's something nostalgic about construction... Working outside on a sunny day, remodeling a house. It's like I'm a kid building a fort or a treehouse.

Sorry I've been so stuck in the gutter lately. Losing my previous job threw me off balance on an emotional level and left me lost in my head. But, now that I'm working again, I look forward to getting back into my community and continuing to give it my all.

Looks like the planets have aligned in my favor! I now work for a general contractor and I'm allowed to bring a dog to work!

Rich people who think low income/homeless individuals shouldn't have pets deserve to be punched in the face.

I mean, seriously? For some of these people, that dog is the only thing keeping them from jumping off a bridge.

It's always a jarring experience to go into downtown Seattle. A dimension separate from everything around it. I could be in any city and the chaos is always the same. Skittering at rhe feet of skyscrapers that are the belittling hallmark of industry.

The main exception is the rustic and intimate Pike Place Market. Which feels more like Diagon Alley than the sense of cold, dystopian foreboding that's seen in the rest of Downtown.

It's so weird that I now have a job that starts at 9:30am and goes roughly to 5pm.

Being an early riser who keeps waking up at 5/6am, I'm seizing the extra hours available to just sit by the shore of Greenlake and enjoy a cup of coffee.