Holy shit is it slick outside in the twin cities. Be careful. Walk like a penguin. There is no dry, only ice.

I am, for my sanity, believing that the temporary reactions in the Epstein files were done by people who knew exactly what they were doing, and it was a kind of malicious compliance. Sure, there is incompetence at the top, but there is rebellion in the ranks.

Commercials are so weird. AI to tell me I am going to get hit ny a train? An American Barista affording weightloss drugs? Dogs driving cars? Car ads celebrating detours over normal routes?

Listening to a free true crime audiobook. It is not great because it is very hard to follow the timeline and the cast of characters. What is really amazing about this is that there were no federal laws against child porn in 1977, first one was in '78 and was weak. The U.P. was a production hub.

I think my favorite mock-chicken has been discontinued and I am so very sad about this. Food is culture. Diet is culture. This make an identity and sense of self. To lose this unbreaded mock chicken is like losing part of my identity, my history, and a deep sense of self.

I went to Costco and spent less than $23 while getting what I went in for. That feels kind of magical.

Because I want to feel like there is good in the world, I am going to assume the grunts doing simple black highlighter reactions, did it intentionally. The needed to make their bosses happy, but didn't want to break the law. It is not as much incompetence as it is a sort of malicious compliance.

It is winter solstice. 2 nazis got punched in the face in boxing rings on TV. The CECOT story got shared. Many of the Epstein reduction are just black highlighter. Maybe it really is gonna start to get brighter here soon.

I don't want another congressional hearing about the executive branch breaking the law. I want congressional to figure out how to arrest and detain these criminal cabinet members without relying on the criminal executive branch.

I sort of think Americans rejection of vaccination is a type of fatalism. If I die, I die. But really chances are you will survive, but with long term disabling consequences, and I don't understand how any American is not terrified at risk of long term illness here.

I do not like that my limbs and joints are not being team players in my daily life. I broke my right foot. My left knee cap decided to get rid of all of its cartilage. I had the hardware out of my right foot and the scar is being tight and painful. Now my left foot decides planter fasciitis is cool.

Why do I keep painting dudes in man caves? #brodalisques #mancave #arthistorynerd #oilpainting #art

Perhaps we could stop pushing gender ideology on kids. All sports are co-ed. All kids are given an equal amount of dolls and trucks, cleaning toys and cooking toys. No more baby blues and pastel pinks. Rainbows for all. (Genderless childhoods don't work, but even i remember when it was kids)

When people value power but not responsibly a society ends up with something like the current US government. It really doesn't have to be like this.

Read about Roomba's downfall. Realized similar people are pushing out self driving cars that are a lot larger, but not much smarter than a Roomba. Roomba and dog shit is really gross, but Waymo and human guts is gonna be thought of exactly the same. Mostly as a gross smelly joke.

Snow sheets sliding off the roof solar panels is a terrifying sound.

I can't be the only one who really dislikes reading multiple pages of writing presented sanserif font. I don't care if it is on the screen or not. A single page can be sanserif. A 3-300+ page document needs the little letter anchors to make it understandable.

Why are they all cloth bandaid? They are wet and soggy as soon as you put them on. What is the magic branding word that will get me something not cloth?

Damn you Microsoft. I do not want AI. I do not want to need to pay you an additional $30 a year for a thing I do not want nor do I want my works stolen so you can build the thing I do not want.

I got back home around 8:30 last night. I got a lot done today. Even though it was below 0 this morning I went to Zumba, then I got my Costco membership and shopped. I get pet treats at PetSmart. I shoveled the plow turds from my driveway.

I am winning in life. I have a favorite art gallery that I buy art from regularly. I have original art from 4 different artist from this gallery and additional prints as well.

Between RFK Jr and Dr. Oz I think they are trying to pitch starvation as American wellness.

My sense of justice dreams are very cinematic. Last night I dreamed a la The Godfather, a major drug kingpin goes to Mar a Lago and has dinner w/ Hegseth and makes him watch as his crew blows up a bunch of mega yatchs. Then says "you declared war, but have this security?" and shoots him, and shrugs.

At a coffee shop. Tables are full so I cannot get to an outlet for my dead tablet. I somehow do not have a pen with me. I am supposed to be writing, not reading another chapter.

Got a digital holiday card from the CEO. He didn't mention any sort of family, but did mention that he now looks forward to his 15 minutes of Copilot time everyday. The men are not OK.

It has been a crazy week. And it has been a wild day. I almost want to call it bedtime already.

Ordering a cup of tea has been an issue recently. I am blaming Trump and his tariffs for the lack of tea the past couple of months.

I am a little weired out that due to minor swelling after getting stitches out, I might need to wear crocs to a concert tonight.

What next with RFK Jr. Is he gonna want to bring talc and asbestos back to baby power and room deodorants? Put radium back on watch faces? Remind us all that led pipe last longer? You get a brain amoeba! And you get a brain amoeba!

I just registered for intro piano lessons through community ed. I will get eight 30 minute lessons. I gotta try something new.

I did cancel Spotify back in October but I did check my wrapped so I can keep training Tidal. I am so proud my listening age is 21. I also like my dark pop, medieval, and dark cabaret genres.

I am acutely aware of my morality over the holidays. I live alone and am not very sentimental about holidays. I don't have people that regularly check in with me. I think it would take at least a week for anyone to notice i was missing, but honestly probably longer.

Am I the only one that misses mall food courts? I miss having a cafeteria around too.

After getting over the shouty-ness of Dungeon Crawler Carl and enjoying that binge listen, and loving the Iron Druid series as ebooks, I have hit a streak of mid to downright bad books. Trying other genres, but what is up with miserable forever romance, hockey assholes, and bastard cop worship?

"Strong floor, no ceiling" sounds like being outside in a concrete parking lot. It sounds like and enthusiastic beginning, but no planning, no vision, no structure. It sounds like giving up. Maybe the AI consultant coming up with a Dem summary knows the party better than assumed.

The need to wear an open toed surgical shoe for another 4 days, and the 4" of snow is a very unfortunate combination. I am almost thinking the 80s bread-bag trick might be needed.

It is fascinating to read about societies where the whole value of a person, a family, a clan, a tribe, and a society is based on the responsibility of hospitality and to notice how far American culture is from that. We are so broken from our humanity for hospitality to be so disrespected here.

The netherbrain battle in BG3 is such a comfort fight. I love it so much. I get to the end of a playthrough, and then I play it again and again.

Trump will pardon a drug kingpin, because they are rich, cruel kings. He will murder the traffickers because they are mules and runners. Totally different laws for different classes.

I took a 2 hour nap today, and am almost ready for bed now before 7:00. What is up with this sleepiness?

Twin cities: Where do you like go to read book away from home? A bit of background noise, but not too much. I'm looking for specific suggestions. Which library, which coffeehouse, which lobby.

I really did not plan meals and groceries well around my surgery last Friday and thanksgiving tomorrow.

Is it just me or are their so many automated appointment reminders that it actually becomes harder to remember any given appointment?

AI writing copy with lots of contemporary slang is so bad. I cannot tell if the voice overs for these AI slop ads are also AI or if these scripts were given to real 20something podcasters who are leaning into a stilted reading of a garbage script to get their money.

Listening to a strange audiobook series. I cannot decide if it is bland or cozy or if I like it. It is novel background noise of people being nice to each other. It is odd because it is set right after a world changing apocalypse war, and the mission is to stop a Civil War, but everyone is nice.

I want reporters to ask their guests to provide evidence when they offer disjointed correlations or weird political associations. Or at least ask them to define the terms they are using. What do you mean by young adults rejecting the current "heavily regulated free market"?

How are we going to put any of the world back together again?

Almost 15% of MN kindergarten are not vaccinated with MMR, with large clusters in private schools. That shows that rich people love their personal brand more than they care for their actual kids. That is wild.

Who the hell is going to Starbucks right now? Shame on you. This is the easiest of all picket lines not to cross.

Some use the title of Journalist when they could be better describe as modern day courtesans.