Stony Brook mushrooms

On August 19th, I took a walk around the Stony Brook Reservation. The previous days had been wet enough that not only were there mushrooms, but many of them had fungus of their own. This Russula has been colonized by a mold.

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Missing device

In the middle of last week I misplaced my iPod at work. I went over the last places I had used it, narrowed it down to when I showed a picture of the puppy to a coworker. I was in my car when I had showed her the picture, so when I realized it was missing I searched my car--behind and below and beside the seats especially. I checked my desk three times, checked a couple surfaces where I could have conceivably left it. Finally when I had decided that one of my coworkers was a no good thief, I found my iPod where it has slid out of my pocket while I was driving a golf cart. It was undamaged on a paved area where it could easily have been run over by another vehicle.

When I was looking for it, I was most worried about my podcast--I use the iPod's voice memo function to record it.

Today I can't find it again, and now it seems that a neighbor has stolen it from my car. I hope I'm wrong and it turns us somewhere, but it doesn't seem like it's going to happen.

I haven't had it very long, but boy did I depend on that thing for a lot of different uses.

EDITED TO ADD: Aaaaand it was in my car, between the driver's seat and the middle thingie, where I'd already looked three times. Well, it was fun to test myself with existential despair over a small object anyway. Thanks for playing, universe, you win again.