{"id":10486,"date":"2026-07-21T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10486"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:32:17","slug":"the-color-of-an-avocado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/07\/21\/the-color-of-an-avocado\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of an Avocado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, with the RME freshly landed, the real rains came back, and I slept too much in the half-lighted fog of afternoon. Then I had a real nice visit and made tacos for the Visitor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/repo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"493\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/repo.png 575w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/repo-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thus, today I slept only a little in the wee hours, got up at the ideal time, around four, and wrote a long post, but it wasn&#8217;t the kind for publication. This one will have to be instead. <\/p>\n<p>There are three weeks before I get seriously paid again, yet the system requirements for August are already met. <\/p>\n<p>There are almost two weeks before the next trip, and it&#8217;s a big fat doozy, but necessary in some way that is also a meeting of system requirements. Just like renewing my car tags. Just like applying for Medicare in the anointed window, or else; the endless soft parades of distraction. <\/p>\n<p>In weeks after, people will want to be celebrating my alleged birth, but not wanting to be around each other while they do, which is always complicated. I have fantasies about escaping it down in those freshly undrowned and walkable Glen Canyons, without telling anyone where I&#8217;m going. <\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re only fantasies, burning like cigarettes down into ash in the tray. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be a good boy, instead of putting Alex first, and juggle the radioactive fallout like a real pro. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just watch me&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>At Halloween I will attend no drag shows, because in a town this small, there just aren&#8217;t any. Only ro-de-ooos. <\/p>\n<p>There will doubtless be expectations and obligations at Thanksgiving time, but they won&#8217;t be too onerous, because I will refuse to let them be, Rawr.<\/p>\n<p>Then shall come the quiet of solstice. <\/p>\n<p>It will not be frozen.<\/p>\n<p>I shall not be frozen.<\/p>\n<p>Some people try to pick up girls and get called an asshole. <\/p>\n<p>This never happened to &#8230; Pablo Picasso. <\/p>\n<p>He was only five foot three but girls could not resist his stare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8gOJoKNrRI0\">Subsequently, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Not like you. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ellay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"882\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ellay.png 882w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ellay-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ellay-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ellay-600x353.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gv9eWsKHazk\">Not like me. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, with the RME freshly landed, the real rains came back, and I slept too much in the half-lighted fog of afternoon. Then I had a real nice visit and made tacos for the Visitor. Thus, today I slept only a little in the wee hours, got up at the ideal time, around four, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10491,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}