This one just makes me happy! 😍😍🥹 open.spotify.com/track/7n58P8...

I’m gonna make another one of these! Really love how it turned out. Details in the captions. #ravelry (user:Apollo1975) #knitting #menwhoknit #lgbtqknitter #gayknitter #yarn #craft #IMadeThis #fiberarts

This has been a blast to knit. Details in the caption. #ravelry (user:Apollo1975) #knitting #menwhoknit #lgbtqknitter #gayknitter #yarn #craft #IMadeThis #fiberarts

Ok!! Hey, Mika. Good to see you again!! open.spotify.com/track/3Gcakf...

The Count knows what’s up.

Shocked, honestly. Wasn’t looking forward to having our government invalidate my marriage.

My job requires that I track my time in 15 minute increments. I’m packing for a weeklong work trip and think that I should be able to record that time!

🇫🇷 Je me suis concentré sur l'apprentissage du français. But! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Rydw i wedi bod yn colli'r Gymraeg. Fedra i ddim siarad dwy iaith ar yr un pryd. #duolingo

It’s very interesting. And it’s very chaotic. I bound off early after making too many brioche mistakes. There’s really only one thing I don’t like about the design, and it’s that straight line between sections 1 and 3. Otherwise, I dig the vibe. #MysteryMusiKAL #westknits #knitting #MKAL2025

Wait! Maybe we, humans, are the actual monsters? 😜 Of course! 🕊️🔥 The narrator of this version, Glendart Jackson, does a great job with the Monster’s voice, and its transformation into an Emperor Palpatine-esque delivery as anger and rage fill the Monster is great!

Whoa! I needed this!! 🫠🫠 #25pounder #weightedblanket

I have too many ends to weave in and need to block it, but I finished the #MysteryMusiKAL. I always enjoy participating in #Westknit’s #MKAL and I loved #knitting it this year. Love my colors and the #LesGarcons yarn. But wow this pattern is a trip!!! When I get good photos, I’ll share.

Now’s a good a time as any to say this is a great book and we should be fucking terrified by that breaking news alert that WaPo just pushed out.

Mmmm, petrichor!

I’ve been in Boise, ID for 36 hours. I’m charmed. I didn’t take a bunch of photos, but I’m into what I’ve seen.

Bedtime Stories slowly became one of my favorite Madonna albums. It’s also the first one I purchased when it was released, 30 years ago!!! 30 Years Ago!!! 🥹🤪🫠

Admittedly I knew little about Goldwater. I found this read engaging and gives enlightening insight into today’s political landscape.

I shouldn’t be feeling these feels at the airport but here i am 🥺😢😭 on the inside. If anyone asks, I’m saying the chorizo in these brekkie tacos is extra spicy 🥵😂 open.spotify.com/album/3e2Q0T...

Living la vida loca w/ my $12 meal voucher & complimentary oral hygiene products 🪥 at the airport hotel. PHX isn’t my destination but it’s my bed for the night. 🫤 Apparently my “gay voice” is so bad after I say my name, Scott, I’m still called ma’am (3x) when on the phone with the hotel. 🫳🏻💅🏻🤷🏻‍♂️

The weather has been feeling autumnal and it’s #Rhinebeck weekend (#FOMO) so I baked an Apple Cider Donut #Bundt #Cake. #cakeforbreakfast #gâteaupourlepetitdéjeuner

It’s my Friday! I wish I was whooping it up somewhere fun, but sadly, dear readers, mama is tired! 🥱

I love these little tweaks of the Halloween candy panickers. Gonna post one a day through October.

Finished Clue 1 yesterday! #MysteryMusiKAL #westknits #knitting #MKAL2025 #MKALSpoilers

While in Montreal, we visited the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and I remain obsessed by James Tissot’s “October.” More in alt text…

The hair is thinning. My eyes are struggling. My hip hurts everyday. But today is my 50th birthday and I’m in a generally good place, all things considered, and that’s a gift. ☺️ And so is the cake I ordered for delivery! 😜

Can’t do anything without him judging me.

Hey #knitters! Who’s prepped and ready for this year’s #WestKnits #MKAL? I’m excited to use the @lesgarcons.bsky.social British 4-ply I picked out in Montreal last weekend. #MysteryMusiKAL

Hey people in my phone! Any recommendations on how I might fix the handle on my suitcase? This happened between airports, the rest of the suitcase is still in good shape.

I’m listening to Celine Dion! Merci beaucoup. Je t'aime Montréal! Tu es magnifique!

Poutine is a cousin to Tater Tot Casserole which is a convenience adaptation of Shepherd’s/Cottage Pie. And surely further linked to roast meat and root veg. And I’m sure an even broader family tree history I don’t know. Proud

Dear Ruffles Have Ridges, I’d like you to try to make a bernaise flavored chip, please and thank you. Any time it’s on a menu, I order it!

Don’t be a dodo! 🦤

Travel: 😍😍😍 Packing: 😬😖🫨 3AM Alarm: 🫥🫩😳 See you soon, Montreal!

I don’t know if this is a neurodivergent thing (I’m talking about me) or an everyone thing; anytime someone’s words sound like a lyric to me, I forget the next thing they say while my lizard brain sings that lyric in my head, sometimes it’s out loud.

Currently.

Y’all! I made this!!! One forking stitch at a time. I’m so happy with it, though I will always point out the color change, before I started alternating skeins, so there’s that! 😜😂😂🤣 (Pattern and yarn in alt text.)

6 days to departure! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

Glad to be back at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Seems like we’ve been going nearly 25 years. Nice to see the same people year over year, spend time with friends, and have the most incredible time people watching. W/ @theotterknitter.bsky.social

Not only did I knock over my just-made, iced, morning beverage, it had be over the top. Across the counter, down the front of the counter. Then off the counter & into the pocket of my shorts, which had my phone in it. And then down and over feet and the floor. All before 630am! 😮‍💨🎉🫠

Seems the internet is waiting for a death. It’ll be a fine day. There will be a power vacuum that will implode on itself! Yay! There will be calls to “time to move on.” No! I don’t like this analogy, but it’s the best I’ve got: the infection has taken over the body.Removing the mass isn’t enough.

Fall menus are dropping.

Last night, while I laid in bed 🛌 , my tinnitus🔋, the buzz of cicadas 🪰, and the whirring of the fan 🪭melded my brainwaves 🧠into a tsunami-sized wave 🌊 dopamine and euphoria. Dear reader, I need to bottle that elixir & sell it out of whimsical caravan. Could’ve been the Palomas we had as well! 🤪🫠🤷🏻‍♂️

Morning stroll in Union Market #FreeDC

27 years ago I arrived in Washington, DC after a long train ride from Milwaukee. I came here for grad school at American University. I found my family and made our home. I love this city deeply. It pains me to see the city in turmoil due to political grand standing by weak people. Shameful!

Here, fixed it.

This is how your email was received by Apollo today! He’s pissed off by the brown shirt gestapo’s occupation of DC & the feds for terrorizing trans individuals, their families and their health care providers. (Among the million other inhumane things they are doing) Cruelty & erasure is their goal.

The daily horror of waking up…to continue witnessing the hellscape metastasizing before us.

I’m excited about the progress I’m making, and I’m unhappy with the striping of the color variation in the yarn. I started alternating skeins and I feel it is super obvious and feels messy.

Bonjour! Je serai à Montréal une semaine en septembre pour le travail. N'hésitez pas à partager vos recommandations! (Visites, restaurants, quartiers, shopping, musées!) <From Google Translate> (I am staying downtown near the Cathedral.) Merci beaucoup!