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This is a picture of some blackish fungus I found under the carpet in

trippedbreaker's soon-to-be bedroom. I took the picture by hand-holding my old Nikon 995 over the photo port with a 20x eyepiece plugged in. I was using 800x magnification, plus whatever the camera was adding. Based on what I see here, it seems unlikely to be the kind of health-destroying black mold we hear about in the news so much. However, it may well be a form of black yeast, and if that's the case, its presence in the house might explain my yeast allergy.

A pretty fun second use of the new microscope! Wait until I actually get a decent camera mount.

As I've been getting back into yoga over the past few days, I've also been doing sitting meditation as part of the practice. After trying to empty some of the rock-hard ground corn-cob out of my home-made meditation pillow, I discovered it had been colonized by fuzzy brown mildew. While I've had some pretty good times with fungus, I'd really prefer to keep my altered states separate until I consciously *decide* to combine them. So into the trash the old pillow went, and I trucked out to Goodwill to get a new one.

Anyone know where you can get buckwheat hulls in Austin for a reasonable cost? Michael's doesn't seem to carry them, and Hobby Lobby was closed today.