We DID!! We've personally maintained the midpoint of "everything will be fiiiine" and "everything will go wrong" very well, I think. Feeling very self-actualized.

”Rogue One was like watching the Ohtani/Trout Angels teams” basically

I enjoy the political news and everyone’s opinions about Star Wars but the real reason I cherish bsky is, as someone who works in the quiet, there are so many expressions. I just saw a “be fucking for real,” delightful.

what bliss: sent out my pre-vacation email (“‘bye, gang!”) and received vacation auto-replies from half of my recipients. truly, holidazzled.

Incredibly F1-brained joke answer, but at the link he discusses the shapes of the numbers, which is a complete improvement on “I guess I just kinda always had it”

Best case scenario for me personally

That Ike Howard goal was way pretty, I hope he tears it upppp

Just got massacred in my own home vis a vis my inability to remember guys' names, but even worse is that I came here to joke about it and realized that it being 2025 means I've been accidentally saying "Mike Carter" instead of Mike Richards for nearly two decades 💀

Got so distracted by Taylor Hall's goal and the return of Brick's iconic "Taylah Hall" pronunciation that I entirely lost track of not only the sentence I was in the middle of but also the conversation topic.

Jots Jots Jots (my fantasy hockey team, the Grimsby Jots, have rocketed to second place! out of four.)

Last night we went to the Flames-Wild game and it is Extraordinary how the Flames colors match the kickplate, boards, and cap. I had not noticed in all these years due to the loathing but it is striking in person

“The name that pops for me here is Ike Howard, who has found a way to be useful as well as ornamental in a small role.”

Tonight at the polling place two different people were wearing cat ears 😻

Excellent color from the new baby backyard oak brightening the day

Yesterday I wore my 2014 sweater (🧡🖤, festive drip) and had an ongoing conversation about the wild card, including the two Chicago Guys pledging that there could be only one. conclusion: work in the office is made whole by baseball.

Cruised through two very different 5-2 scorelines: Isles-Bruins (we’re going to do name/number flash cards) and Bolts-Preds (special teams not very special)

I will once again be appropriating these corner captions for political “analysis”

Ike Howard reveals himself to be an American, a dyed in the wool contrarian, or a believer in “if they beat us, they can beat ANYONE” in the Oilers’ survey of preferred WS outcomes

Personal best on today’s Catfishing! Of course I am married to someone from Worcester so Question 4 was easy.

The thing about a twelve foot mech suit is that you’re still the same person inside. Maybe things will be different with the 36 foot model.

Marched yesterday and today practiced my marching while working out. I’ll be a democracy Evangelion by the next protest

Me, cautious: “it’s decorative gourd season … motherfuckers.” My mother, charmed: “what’s that? That’s delightful. Send me the link. (to herself) decorative gourd season! motherfuckers!”

This edition is positively weird with the emphasis but I think Henry James might be embracing the genre (“They” came out 1904, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary same year)

G2: Tomasek playing like a CYOA adventurer. Choose pike, choose pike

Caught former Oiler Ryan McL hustlin’ to save a near-certain ENG in Boston. what a player

Howard’s gone for the lower-maintenance moustache because he’s getting sent down and like he’s tryna impress Jim Hamblin

the boys are shovinggg (watching Stars-Jets, although I gather it could be true for any number of games this evening)

G1: time to establish who’s going to be fun to watch this season, and can I say his name more-or-less (Regula??) correctly

Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter

And he used to be better!

“She thought so much about herself that it was important to have the thoughts comfortable, and many desolate hours had been made more bearable by gazing at her own reflection.” What’s a normal amount of human frailty to observe before lunch, Elizabeth

I do not think that anyone seriously thinks that Ike Howard’s problem is confidence. That’s not true

No, “Come and See” came up organically. Normal Saturday morning family discussion stuff

I’m thinking about finally reading Interview with the Vampire. I could quietly slip it in to re-read October and no one would know I hadn’t read it when I was thirteen

Fall was not much in evidence up at the lake; a pretty nice time tho

Going up to the lake this weekend to potentially experience FALL 🍂

Accidentally opened Copilot today, when trying to do something else. I bet they’re getting a lot of volume that way

Drafted the 2025-26 Grimsby Jots this afternoon: we are, as ever, hoping for a lot from McDavid

I read “They Thought They Were Free” which both the author and Richard J Evans swear is true, and yet some of the details are too perfect.

This was so lighthearted it felt a little like a dating profile at times (Moonshot, Smith)

prose is the art of interiority and if your interiority is extremely fucked up, you might as well give everyone a tour

I called my senator for my usual free association voicemail, and reached a human staffer. I was so startled I almost didn’t hit my stride (“and ANOTHER thing …”)

Beginning to entertain Zone 3/4 planning for cold: I could cut the canna now and have a five foot tall floral arrangement in the middle of my house, is the upside.

Looking forward to trying Practice to Deceive this evening: maybe some new facts about Jacobites — mostly re: their sexiness — will stick with me

reading up (How Much Grammar Does it Take to Sail a Boat, David Gil)

While we were summering, the Oilers upgraded the Bakersfield Condors roster. Bigly. lowetide.ca/2025/08/13/b...

Always wondering what celebrated novelist George Saunders thinks of our political scene

After Thursday yoga, checked out the art museum garden where they were hosting trivia/Carly Rae Jepsen dance party night

WILL KISSING BECOME THE RULE RATHER THAN THE EXCEPTION?

Heading off to bookclub tonight, really looking forward to hearing my pals’ opinions on the mid book we selected