So much *busywork* today.

The kids have less than a month left in school, and now suddenly they’re talking about having in-person graduation ceremonies, which feels surprising. Good surprising, except: what are the kids gonna wear? At this point I declare victory if I’ve got them wearing pants and a shirt, and consider it a minor miracle if they don’t complain too much about socks.

Lotta infrastructure stuff like that, really. My SCA barony is having an event for the first time in over a year, and I’m doing spreadsheets on who has a tent or a pop-up, and where I need to assign them on the list field. I’ve got a convention to vend at, and I need to find somebody to watch the table while I go pee. We have a list of things around the house that need doing. It’s ever so slightly annoyingly weird, mostly because none of this was unusual before the pandemic and I don’t like the faint aura of unreality. The sooner everything’s back to normal, the better.

Oh, and we saw a couple of cicadas today! …Ehh, we may have been talking up this entire thing a little. So far, so underwhelming.

HEY YOU GUUUUYYYYSSS! IT’S CICADA TIME AGAIN!

The latest brood eruption is almost upon us, and in my general neck of the woods:

Some people love them, others are revolted. Cicadas, those big, loud, harmless bugs are emerging across the Mid-Atlantic. Cicadas have been reported in recent days in Fairfax, Va., Potomac, Md., and Annapolis, Md.

A cicada brood emerges once every 17 years, but since there are different broods, you’ll see them more than once every 17 years. This year’s cicadas were last seen in 2000. They come out of the grou…

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