One of my favorite days of the year - the day where I pretend I know how to successfully complete projects around the house. Today's adventure - new closet organization system!

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Ha! As someone who has tried these gels for my long rides, this tagline is incredibly apt. There's no flavor, and the texture is indescribably weird. It's something you have to "get used to." There are also other better tasting gels on the market, so my Maurten experience was a one-and-done.

Zwifting thread - sorry for the boring! This year's goal is to do the Mont Vontoux climb, in honor of the TdFF climbing the summit for the first time this year. No way I can do this climb "cold", so I'm trying to get in the other big climbs to help prepare. 11.8 miles, 4859 feet of climbing.

"You know what my kids would say..." "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL FATHER!"

Kicking off Charity Bowl with some love for my grad school @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

This little nugget turns 5 today, but she's still my little baby

Flyers are playoff bound. Who'd have thunk it?

That said, I am very happy with my decision this spring (semester) to swing by Moon Hollow after work once a week. It lets me start my grad class reading for the week, and more importantly, the bartenders know me as a regular now!

I keep telling myself that I'm going to start posting on here with some sort of regularity, but we see how well that's going. Doesn't help that all of my "exciting" life things are cycling/Zwift related.

Somebody is happy to be home from being boarded for the holidays

i submitted this one to the New Yorker, but in hindsight this one was way too Far-Side-coded, lol

A couple of thoughts on tonight: - Happy to have helped Radford go blue again in another election (with some heavy lifting from the students) - While it's the next house district over from me, very happy to see Lily Franklin on the verge of flipping that VA house seat blue!

Three years ago, I made the random decision to take a 40 minute drive to a local orchard for some apple picking. It has become my favorite annual tradition once September hits. Another beautiful morning for some apple picking

I've been full-go with my (indoor) cycling and Zwift bike/app over the past few months, enjoying the rides and getting better on routes and racing. And today's La Vuelta stage that ends on L'Angliru is a reminder as to why indoor virtual cycling is where I'll continue to live.

Sometimes, I still like to steal a pic of a sleeping Tifa

The entire Tapestry album

Didn't realize you could request the "Klaus Nomi" from the plastic surgeons...

The decision to make Thursdays a rest day from cycling so that I could stop by Moon Hollow Brewery on my way home after work was a brilliant life decision.

In less depressing news, I’ve fully switched from running to indoor cycling. And now I’m fully in the Zwift world - loving life as a mediocre cyclist in that very international virtual cycling world. Now that the Tour de France has started, it’s just a full cycling geek out this month😄

Well, I was supposed to be in Milwaukee right now for a vacation. But home-ownership crap arose and I had to cancel the trip last minute. I’ve been trying to make the most of the vacation days locally. But nothing is going to replace missing my chance to see Babymetal playing at Sunmerfest tonight.

Shimabaran is the guardian deity of Shimabara City, Nagasaki. He loves his hometown and is straightforward and hardworking; but he is clumsy, easily gets tired, and has no confidence in his physical strength.

At the Nashville SC game, a giant flag for La Brigada de Oro, the Latino supporters section, which is not here tonight due to ICE activity. NSC officials tried to remove it, but were met with vehement objections by supporters clubs, who threatened a giant walkout if they did.

The Venerable Sariputta one day asked the Buddha, "I have seen a bad post. I think I shall quote tweet it with my added commentary." The Buddha chuckled. "You may do so. You may make your own home as unclean as that of the pig sty. But do not complain when the pigs sleep in your bed."

Guy in front of me at the farmers market sniped all 18 remaining bunches of the Good Asparagus. Oh are you gonna charge $18 for it? wood roast it? Top it with mint and lemon zest and pine nuts and bread crumbs? Sounds delicious I hope you DIE you farm to table ass bitch

AI will save us all!!!!!!!!!!!

HK saying HK names for a April matchup of the Phillies and Giants in 1991

154 = Tyler Warren's 2024 passing efficiency. 2nd best on the team, still ahead of Drew Allar. (Also, officially adding PTKU as my 5th alma mater.) @newap-georgia.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Kevin Harlan: "Tonight, the NBA on TNT is brought to you by the new crispy tenders at CarMax. What? Wait a minute, hold on. Are they serving tenders with cars? We just had the marriage of two different sponsors and it was UGLY." 😂

Making ricotta chocolate chip cookies for the office tomorrow and adding in a bit of orange to brighten up the batch. Past me was a bastard and put an empty bottle of orange extract back in the pantry. Thankfully, current me still has some Cointreau to use as an "orange-flavored alcohol" back-up.

Avenge Miyazaki, reject OpenAI garbage!

Did my first ever conference presentation today, and it went over well? Had a few people come up afterwards to tell me they enjoyed it and got value out of it, so I guess I'll call it a success. Success or failure, it's beer time now 😁

ALLY SENTNOR BANGER!!! ALLY SENTNOR BANGER!!! ALLY SENTNOR BANGER!!!

Booked the hotel for a vacation this summer. Still have to book the flight/rental car, but finally forcing myself to commit to an actual vacation this year. Haven't planned an actual vacation since 2020, so hopefully things don't completely go to shit again this go around?

Shaq: "In the words of Marshawn Lynch I'm tired as shit America. We getting fired anyway Ernie fuck it!" LMAO

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

In what is becoming a very weird tradition for me, this late-January Saturday night finds me watching curling on one screen and the 24 Hours of Daytona on the second. Because of course I watch the most random sports you can imagine.

Got two pour-overs and a lemon scone

Sounds like switching over to the Australian Open coverage at halftime was the correct decision

I don't talk about my job often, mostly because it's really not that exciting. But super excited to see one of my advisees getting signed to play in the NWSL!

Guruga the beluga whale is the mascot for the ice hockey team, the Yokohama Grits.

Why yes - I did get excited when I noticed my W2 was available and so I started my taxes on this cold and snowy Friday night. What else am I supposed to do at this stage in my life? 😆

This sleeping position. The majesty of that leg...

I’m sure I’m not the first one to bring this up. But this many random drone sightings this close to Christmas sounds like the opening plot line to a Doctor Who Christmas special.

Made a German apple pancake for breakfast this morning. Which is very much like a Dutch baby. Which always makes me think of Bob’s Burgers (like most things anymore…)

Since we're here, this year's menu:

To try to not duplicate my Bluesky and Insta feeds (for those that follow me at both), I'll keep the T-Day picture posting to a minimum here. But since I share a kinship with Bob Belcher and his love of Thanksgiving, I figure I'll give a bit of my lore. And maybe in the future, my planning process.

A little cat content this morning before flooding this with Thanksgiving content for a few days. 😁