And @jikei723.bsky.social -- I think I'm not even a little kidding. I mean if you don't think it's weird. Maybe when it will actually be warm?

I just got myself a credit card! How bizarre to be able to start from scratch at 56.

I don't think this can be over-stated... My country exists because the British monarchy sucks. Buddies across the pond or not these days, the monarchy still sucks. And *even they* knew what to do with a pedophile. My country has lost it's way.

And you know, no, I didn't get over the first affair. Therapy or not. Not sure why she's been on my mind so much lately. It's weird.

I have almost non-stop anxiety about having a very, very, very first-world white person problem. And the fact that I'm anxious makes me feel super duper guilty. And that isn't helping my anxiety.

I'm not going to lie. Suing the church was one of the smartest dumb ideas I've ever come up with. I mean, like, how hilarious. It doesn't make this timeline any less stupid. None of this shit makes sense.

Lucyfur is home from the vet. She won't even look at me.

Say what you want about my south-side team. We don't lower our flags for nonsense. 😉

I gave up Catholicism one year for Lent, and have been happier since. Jesus would want me to be happy, right? #Lent

If you have "dean" anywhere in your title, you shouldn't be eligible for a Chancellor's Staff Excellence Award. Sorry.

Was in WalFart the other day and Spring is coming and they have all their pool supplies out. No idea what inflation/tariffs have done to the price of pool chemicals, but HAH -- I don't care! Thank Odin I got out of the pool boy business.

I apologized to our HR Director yesterday about the troll nonsense. She said "no worries" and actually said it gave her a good excuse to go over the 1st Amendment and how it applies to University employees with her team. Also, the Troll has stopped. Will contact him in 4 years when I retire.

No school in town today, so lots of parents won't be at work. Alas, my two tax breaks are fully grown, so I gotta grind away in the office today. Hope nothing breaks...

My wild and crazy Saturday night is turning very very very slowly into a Sunday morning. Yawn.

I obviously didn't get fired. I was never going to get fired. But that troll got in my head. He really e-mailed our HR department at work. That's crazy. Many times. I actually don't know that he's stopped.

Okay, I'm shook. I'm trying not to be. But I am.

Bought a carton of cigarettes for the first time in a while. Last time was probably 1980? For Bruce across the street. With a note. 2 of his daughters and my two sisters in tow. On our bikes. Vallette Rexall drugstore.

Just had a big career/work epiphany. I don't need to fill my retiring boss' shoes (uh, Birkenstocks). I just gotta be me and do what I do. 🧡💙💪

Also, for anyone keeping score, my credit score has now jumped a total of 111 points in the last week, to a relatively respectable 765. 💪

Piss off, Cupid. 🖕🧡💙🤣

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies.

My own little Internet troll left things at "I hope you learned your lesson." Obviously I haven't. Filing a FOIA request today. Lemme see them e-mail headers.

Things I learned this week: losetup is pronounced L-O-setup, not lose-tup. "-nodes" in an openssl context is "no DES," and not "nodes."

What a fucking day. Jesus h. christ.

I watched Green Day and as promised was in bed by 5:30. Woke up 15 minutes ago. Ahhhhh.....

Wonder how the Green Day thing is going to work. I assume NBC/Peacock will cut to commercial if/when Billie Joe slams MAGA. I'm going to watch them, and then probably go to bed.

Okay, I need to stop interacting with MAGA folks on Facebook. It just makes me mad. They're mostly trolls and fake accounts. But there's so many it feels like we're losing. And we're not. There are more of us. We're going to win this no matter what the bot accounts spout.

La la la la la.....

I'm mad.

It's actually just short of a megawatt. 24 panels that are 40,000 watts each? Is that the math? I think it's .96 mW?

There's the other one. I now outright own my own megawatt solar electricity generator.

I'm mad.

I'm super feisty tonight! This has to be the turning point, or we are at/in the event horizon. It's our country. We need to take it back.

Oh just you wait. Give my 643 or whatever it is a few weeks. The jack knife of my credit score is going to be hilarious.

I think the odds are even right now whether Palpatine or A.I. starts WWIII first. #skynet #fascism

Gettin' my garage door springs fixed next week. w00t!

I'm not a "single dad." The kids aren't kids (even though, well, they're still kids -- it's a weird ironic conundrum). She has a mother. Tell her about the girl part stuff. And every woman here is going to yell at me. And I accept that. I 100% do. I don't need details? Should I just shut up? Sorry.

It just occurred to me. So this whole thing with the priest and such was, well, it's over. Traumatized? Let's just say that listening ("discussing?") to my 29-year old daughter talk about her IUD is way cringier. But the church was wrong, and needed to be punished.

And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy....

Anyone that makes a point of telling anyone other than a bartender that they take their whiskey neat is a pain in the ass. You can quote me on that.

Wait. A "redundant array of inexpensive disks" in RAID 0 mode isn't at all redundant.

Asked the bank if I could have my "hold" removed. They agreed. I am now out of debt. For the first time in 39 years. Holy shit.

Part of the reason I love my job. Forcing dad-humor on my co-workers. To my boss and group on Teams: "Hey boss. The switch-blade that we need (sszzzztt!) is $2,072 and change. (This is for some AV upgrade, so I spammed the rest of you as well). Should I pull the trigger?" I'm hilarious.

The Ubuntu software repository servers seem to be a bit busy today.

One would think that "our GPU server says nVidia library mis-match again" e-mails would be annoying. To me it's actually a convenient time to run updates and give it a fresh reboot. 😉🧡💙 #Ubuntu #Linux

The Institute for Genomic Biology at UIUC is recruiting a new cohort of fellows! This is a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in interdisciplinary team science, across all aspects of genomics. Come apply! (Especially for One Health . . .) www.igb.illinois.edu/carl-r-woese...

The check has arrived. Suppose I ought to get in the shower so I can get to the bank before therapy this afternoon. Phew.

One more cigarette and then I'll check the mail. Again.

Started (and mostly finished) my taxes last night. Getting a refund, which seems wrong. I thought I was set up so it would be zero every year. #taxes

Just occurred to me that if I said "Are you miserable? Are you miserable?" that my sweet #Lucyfur would still furiously wag her tail. My sweet puppy.