JG Pasterjak
@jpasterjak
Grassroots Motorsports magazine Tech Editor (personal account). Writer, racer, comic, bird pop.
Any eggsperts out there? Found two small eggs—roughly 2.4cm—near our pond in some underbrush. Tic tac shaped. No real nest, but well hidden. Pond has lots of turtles (including cooters, box turtles and chicken turtles). Also have black racers active in this part of the yard. Turtle? Snake? Other?
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Parrot in press car I know, I know, it's serious* (*someone seriously needed their nails done**) (**not me)
I have a neighbor who has two dump trucks. Every afternoon he gets home driving one of his dump trucks. We've chatted, but I've never asked what he actually does and in my head I like to think he's a normal dude who really likes dump trucks and commutes to his office job every day in a dump truck.
GUYS NO THERE'S BEEN A HORRIBLE AUTOCORRECT MISTAKE DON'T DO THIS TO HER
Someone in my mom’s neighborhood trying to make an example out of Santa apparently.
Me, at Walmart, seeing the top of this calendar peeking out of the rack: “Ducks and dogs? I love ducks and dogs! This sounds super adorable! I wonder if they’re having fun adorable adventures together? I should get one of the-OH GOD OH FUCK”
Sometimes, motorsports gets it. SCCA Solo Nats competitor is protested on Day 1 in a ladies class for being trans. Protest committee rules aggrieved party should get fucked into the sun. Day 2 the rest of class shows support for the protested party on way to her first run. She would go on to win.
You probably didn’t realize this, but circus peanuts are actually a super food. They’re made from tofu and spider sugar (doesn’t hurt the spiders.)
SCCA Solo Nats Camaro adventure in the books. Shockingly benign when pushed. I coned away a trophy, but that allowed the owner to grab the final trophy spot-HIS FIRST EVER!
Driving this thing at SCCA Solo Nationals and honestly couldn’t be more excited. Took a few shakedown runs today in soaking wet conditions and it’s already created a world-class memory.
My “I was assisting a victim of domestic violence who flagged me down then was walloped by a dump truck” shirt seems to be raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.
When you think you want to preen, but you realize your favorite band @health.band is tearing shit up. #cockatoo #goffin
7/end (4 now). L'il Ramius already had water & baby mix. Not particularly interested in either, but knows how to get them, that's good. Mom was a bit rough a couple times, but I'd seen new moms do it before, it's just how they keep they from bumbling everywhere. Now fully tucked under foster mom
4/? So I try another girl, Buckie, who is one of our toughest moms (I saw her go apeshit on a giant blue heron that tried to eat one of her kids once). Made up a box for her, complete with some down and some eggs and her own real baby. Seemed ambivalent at first, but the kid was definitely into it.
3/? So now I need to enlist a foster mom, because the kid can't regulate her temp until feathers start coming in. So I go get Millie, our youngest. She was curious, and gentle with the kid, but she may still be too young and nothing maternal really seemed to trigger with her.
2/? But mom wants nothing to do with the kid. When I brought the youngster and mom down (they were up on a shelf about 7 feet off the ground) she just ignored him and flew back up to the now-empty (no more eggs, no more ducklings) nest.