What I would like to do: Consume some sort of mild sedative and zone the fuck out What I am going to do: make a dent in a pile of paperwork, visit Mom, deal with her impending discharge, go to a board meeting

We are slowly putting more native plants into various places in our yard. One spot is between our deck and the path to the hose spigot, which is currently a tangle of goldenrod (which we planted) and small white asters (which we didn't) and a hotspot for our pollinator friends. So peaceful to watch.

I live in a Yankees house but I kinda want the Cubs to win to see if it resets whatever mojo got fucked up when they won in 2016.

Touched some grass

Vulcan walks into sickbay. Doctor asks, "when was the first day of your last Pon Farr?" Vulcan: "I'm here because my knee hurts..."

Happy New Year

I took the day off and went to the beach. There are like 10 other people here. It's perfect.

Hey team - favorite products for days when you/a loved one can't/shouldn't shower but still want to feel clean & fresh?

The particular pleasure of someone saying something nice about the dish you brought to the potluck in your hearing when they don't know you made it

My husband just told me that the bread we bought to go with dinner isn't as good as the bread I bake (he's right, it's extremely mid).

I took issue with the KFC ad that claims that Col Sanders invented the potato and that's how my Mom learned that potatoes are from Peru

Current discussion topic in our house: which currently active MLB players (or other team personnel) are age-appropriate for the women of the household

I know we're all thinking about Covid boosters right now and that it's a clusterfuck but in the meantime, remember that Flu Shots are available!

Trying to tell me that Data doesn't have feelings when he is so obviously delighted when his bestie invites him to spend the afternoon LARPing

My wedding anniversary is this weekend and I just had the thought of "what if you gave your partner a gift catalog for milestone anniversaries the way employers do?"

Just taught my husband about Renesmee and his response was "no"

I don't object to MLB making deals with streaming networks but I wish that an MLBTV subscription included all the games and j didn't have to help my 79-year-old mother navigate Amazon and/or Apple to find the game she wants to watch

I asked my husband if he had his headphones before we went through TSA and he said "yeah, but I probably won't use them" and I looked at him like he had grown an extra head.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Hot take: vacations are good

Visiting the Godchildren continues to be the best way to bump my book count up - we have been here 3 days and I have read 4 children's books and 2 volumes of poetry (both Mary Oliver, borrowed from the local library)

Saw many good flowers today; here are some dahlias since other folks were talking about them.

Public libraries are one of the best things we ever came up with and I love them so much

They went somewhere for drinks first, I met them for dinner at 6:45. Then they went out for after-dinner drinks. I am in my room, bra, shoes and pants OFF.

Ma'am, if the meeting ends at 4:30 and dinner reservations at 6:45, that's not "so we can meet up for a drink" it's so we can sit alone in our dark hotel rooms with our shoes off for an hour

My flight was supposed to land at BOS at 4:55. I am still at BWI. (Mechanical issue and I would rather they take the time to make sure the plane is safe but also 😩).

People continue to be so bad at boarding a plane

Shout out to USPS, man. I am at the Post Office to ship something. They have a box for sale that is exactly the size I need, and the tap strips are attached to it, with instructions on how to seal it up. Plus you know these clerks deal with the full breadth of humanity

Trying BACK TO THE FRONTIER in an attempt to fill the Victorian/Edwardian/Tudor Monastery Farm hole on my life but it's not the same

It's very funny to me that every state in New England allows recreational cannabis EXCEPT the state whose motto is "live free or die"

My hope is that the quest for true AI and for robots who can take over our jobs makes us better appreciate how incredible human minds and bodies actually are and the skill that goes into even the most menial task. (also that any time these machines free up for us gets to be used for leisure & art)

I will pray for him, but it will be Psalms 52, 58, and 109.

I grew up going to concerts with my parents and we always had great seats so now whenever I buy tickets and they're good seats I feel this sense of pride in a job well done and a little bump of connection to my Dad

Data would be fine but that's cheating. Neelix might do surprisingly well. Any Vulcan, both because I think it's canon that they have a higher spice tolerance and because they could maintain composure. Capt Pike, SNW edition. Odo probably falls in the Data camp. Capt. Sisko. Jadzia Dax

The OTHER thing I do when I am coordinating group travel is let my team know that if paying for their room will be an issue, they can reach out to me privately and I will make sure it is covered, because you shouldn't have to worry about the bill on work trips.

Explaining Broadway stars to my mother by way of The Guilded Age

I have ended up being the meeting coordinator on my team for in-person meetings which means I pick the catering which means I get to pick stuff I like but more importantly means I get to make sure there are legit v*gan and GF options for people

We've been doing a "Summer With the Psalms" program and on the one hand it's very comforting to see some of the same human problems over the ages and on the other it's very frustrating. And on the gripping hand, some of them go in HARD on the curses on one's enemy.

I currently have upstairs yarn, downstairs yarn, and purse yarn, which seems just as it should be (it's real fun with there's office yarn and couch yarn downstairs). All three are for church; once 2/3 are done I should move on to one of my many other WIPs

I am currently barefoot and braless as my maker intended so I have no desire to go back to the office full time but I sure do miss not having to make lunch

Where's the Emmy nomination for the hair & make-up team on Strange New Worlds?

You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? - Jupiter Ascending (2015) - Magic Mike XXL (2015) (I am too lazy to get posters for you)

We went kayaking again today and we had to cut it short because I was feeling MISERABLE (heat plus low back pain and uterine cramps that were unexpected at this point in my cycle) but now I have that post-exertion glow and love for all mankind

This is not the key thesis of the thread but this is i think a key thing we forget sometimes about community - we do not have to LIKE our neighbors to show up for them. It's easier to help people whose company we enjoy but we're all better off when we don't expect "community" to mean "friends"

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

The awkward moment when you get invited to the wedding of someone you don't particularly like (I hope they have a great time and a lifetime of happiness, i just won't be in attendance [I will send a gift])

June 29:

DC-area friends - I have two tickets to the Strauss concert at The National Cathedral today but Mom is sick so we are not going. If you would like them, hmu. Concert is at 6 PM theclarice.umd.edu/events/danzm...

Many things in this world are bad but I just watched Lindsay Mendez and Jessie Mueller sing "Anything You Can Do" live on stage