What sort of keyboard causes one to accidentally hit the = sign so often? I have to hunt for it on my phone.

Fuck this year.

Do you need to see Bertie in tiny sunglasses today? Yes. You do.

I didn’t need that Spotify year in review and I REALLY didn’t need a Docusign year in review. Stop reviewing shit. No one wants to look back on last year.

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All of them. At every level. Logistics, admin, the lowliest, most distant pencil-pushers. All of them. Every single one. Even if it takes decades to find them all and the last ones are old and remorseful when they get caught. All of them.

What I want is a drug that causes the feeling of All Creatures Great and Small, but physical and undeniable. And that lasts exactly 4 hours.

It is not safe. Do not come here. Do not encourage others to come here.

Today my lunch is a)served at 2:30 PM and b)leftover gingersnaps from Christmas broken into a cup of milk. Because I am an adult.

Still got mine too.

For the cats, furniture moving means that it is now brand new furniture and needs exploring. For the dog, it means the world is definitely ending and the only solution is to run outside to hide in a bush.

Please share and amplify to help locate our good friend Cody!

Gave up on chorin for the day, having realized I have tomorrow off work. Time to collapse and send my brain elsewhere. Somehow it is between Fallout and All Creatures Great and Small.

Can you find the Bertie in this picture? Great colors today in the fog at Kamiak Butte.

I’ve been dutifully putting Beetle to bed in his crate each night, but he will go home with his adopter today so I’m finally indulging us in a full on in my bed under the covers nap. The absolute best. Get yourself a tiny dog.

the second you establish that ICE can murder citizens on camera with no consequences, you guarantee (1) more murders and, eventually (2) retaliatory violence.

As a mediocre knitter I am sooo tired of ending up with slightly wonky end results. I swear every time next time I will definitely 1)knit from a pattern, 2)with the yarn it recommends, 3)at the gauge it calls for.

I split a trazadone with Bertie and was in bed by eight last night. Now I’m off to the laundromat to celebrate the New Year.

This is the power to the light in an old curio cabinet. What do I call this type of plug and how to I find something to plug it into?

Started the day using a loud carpet cleaner to clean rogue dog pee off a rug near the Xmas tree. Meanwhile, a dog pooped on a different rug. Moved the cleaner to that rug, which scared the little dog enough that he then peed ON MY LATE GRANDMOTHER’s SOFA. All before 7:30 AM.

Making up a song for Beetle to the tune of the dreidel song. So far I’ve got “Beetle, Beetle, Beetle!” This is not stopping me from singing it.

“This is such a reminder that we’re guests in the river’s home,” he said. “I don’t know what the steps are moving forward, but this is a good opportunity for people to be humbled.”

Watching people argue and bitch on FB about how GO NOW cannot possibly mean that they should Go. Now.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m quite certain Bertie loves her Christmas sweater!

It may take until we are very old and grey but there WILL be reparations for this shit. We have to spend the rest of our lives demanding it.

A cool thing about living in Pullman is that there’s an excellent vet med school here. So Beetle’s first adoption applicant is a vet student! Fingers crossed.

Because the algorithm knows I foster dogs, I get constant alerts on FB for dogs needing rescue. The ones for dogs left behind after ICE raids are getting more and more common. I know there are a million things to be infuriated and sad about right now, but those ones especially just break me.

This is the dream. Someday if I am in hospice care and can’t tell you what I want, this is what I want.

My amazing little bug is now available for adoption! If you’re in the Pacific NW and are looking for a tiny guy to cuddle, check him out. newrattitude.org/adopt/availa...

This is some bullshit.

You guys

We have an almost snuggle! I think Bertie is warming to her foster brother. Or she’s too tired to tell him not to tuck himself in behind her.

GLP-1s and Thanksgiving are not a great combination. But the situation has further reinforced my view that dessert belongs in the morning after. I enjoy it so much more when I’m not stuffed from dinner.

Guess who got his first walk on the beach today? You’d never know he had a major surgery a week ago. And, unlike some dogs I know, he did not growl at any children of guests during our dinner party.

Beetle’s rescue agency is doing a special fundraiser to help pay for the surgery on his little snaggleface. Throw him a few $ if you can.

Beetle’s rescue agency is doing a special fundraiser to help pay for the surgery on his little snaggleface. Throw him a few $ if you can.

What’s the German word for when you go to take a lovely picture of an animal but it pees or shits instead? I have so many of those.

When a woman consumes it it is trashy True Crime. When a man consumes it, it is very serious Criminal Justice reporting. It’s so weird that we ever pretend otherwise.

I was so sure Beetle would spend the day wiped from surgery. Instead he is bizarrely energized, zipping around, nuzzling for affection, and generally delighting me.

Ok so I took some time, did deep breathing, talked to a friend, and still the quiet piggy thing is making me incandescent with rage. Is there a 800# for this?

I think I have my infinite anger in check and then I read quiet piggy stuff and I realize I have so much more work to do to keep from exploding. May these motherfuckers never know what is in my heart.

When nature takes him, as it takes us all, perhaps his entire obituary will simply read “quiet, piggy”

Or his gravestone.

What will you do with your one wild and precious 15-minute period of non-meeting time tomorrow?

Why is every one of his emails marked as High importance?

the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge

All these people belong in prison for their punctuation alone. Well not alone I guess. In addition to all the other reasons they belong in prison.

Many meetings today that made me cranky and sad. In the middle of one, the dogs pulled all the beds out of the study into the sunbeam in the living room. Crankiness 100% eliminated.

A whole lot of step sister energy in the death stare Bertie gives Beetle he gets attention from anyone.