Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Cleaning my office and found a list of strange phrases that at first I thought was notes I made about a weird dream but no, it’s band names I wanted to remember so I could find more of their music.

All morning I have been bounced between customer service departments. The good: Amazon confirmed that someone else had a shopping spree with my business debit card. The ugh: when it comes to getting my money back, both my bank and Amazon are suddenly like:

A mini PSA that this is good information to be familiar with because what happens in the first three hours after a stroke can have a real impact on their survival and post-stroke quality of life.

Every few years I look myself up just to see what nonsense is being conjured by the algorithms and this time it was the description "outgoing socialite." I'm going to tell this to my friends who still miraculously invite me to do things even though I almost always say no and stay home.

A soaked and clinging white dress shirt, with or without the suit jacket, is a look I am completely down with.

I should be doing work to close out a grant so I can get paid which is why I am rearranging the houseplants and doing a seasonal refresh of the art in our entryway.

My library will quote an estimate like 12 weeks wait for a book but if it’s romance I know it’s more like 5 and if it’s romantasy, 3 weeks max. 😂

people are always amused/confused about how romance authors & readers keep doing things like organizing 1.5 million whistles or raising $1 million... but we read & write books where when everything is bleak, you pull together with your people & hope your way to victory. we rewired our brains.

The bidding for this is going to be bananas.

I need to get my little pup a vest so he can be all official when he is shooing geese out of the backyard.

AMcE is one of my favorite galleries to visit in Seattle when I want someone to completely nerd out on me about an art exhibit and today did not disappoint.

Don't do this to big businesses either. Yes, I'm talking about Amazon. Why? Because the more they are hit with this, the less likely they will sincerely investigate fraudulent transactions, something I am dealing with right now and it sucks.

My goal for this year's CSA season is to not let any greens go to waste which means I'm going to end up with a freezer full of vacuum sealed bags of chopped italian chard, kale, and spinach.

In other news, I’m in the middle of reading 3 different romantasy series and keep confusing fae, dragon, and deadly bird story lines. There were snakes, too, but I had to give up that series because it was more fucking than plot and apparently I have more standards than I thought.

Never thought I’d have to add “reflecting pool” to my muted phrase list but there really is a limit to how much utter stupidity my brain is willing to suffer.

If my walk by air has smoky notes in it, I’m in a mood to close doors and burn bridges. If it smells like cherries, I’m in a mood to close some doors for other reasons.

Buckaroo aka Roo Roo Roo Buddyroo Buckyroo The Rutabaga ‘Baga Roodlebug Roo Bug Sugar Bear Pupperoni That Pup Roo Tater Stench-Ass Roo

garden pics, animal pics, “I made this thing,” book/TV recs, and the wild shit little kids say are the five pillars of Good Social Media in my personal opinion

I sharpened all of my mom’s kitchen knives and lectured my husband all winter about how it doesn’t matter how fancy the tires are on the car in rainy or icy conditions if there is less than half of the tread remaining.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Cervical cancer gets the headlines because it’s the first one they proved was linked to HPV, but now we know it also causes really deadly head and neck cancers, anal cancer, and penile cancer. Every person, please get the vaccine

Part of the reason the cutoff is 45 is that they assume folks have been exposed by then. If you are older than 45 and for some reason you haven't been exposed -- e.g. married young but we're recently divorced or widowed -- you should talk to your doctor about getting it!

"Classics and Race" looks at the relationships between Classics & racist/anti-racist thought-systems from late medieval period to the modern emergence of classical studies as a discipline and its relation to the slave trade. Ed. Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia #OpenAccess #Classics

Jerry: I like the lemon. the lemon is fine. I just don’t want you touching the food I’m about to eat

Kramer: its these seed oils Jerry. they're slippin them into our food - its killing us. ive cut them. ive cut them all. im 100% beef tallow now

Elaine: it’s optional! If it was supposed to be on there they would do it in the kitchen!

George: "why would they GIVE you the lemon if they don't want you to USE the lemon?"

If they build a reflecting pool near that fucking guy’s grave they might as well paint the bottom yellow because…

Heading home today from my PDX creative retreat in the quiet, wooded hills. Had quality friend time, visited 4 artists’ studios, found a book I’ve been hunting for years, and figured out the big squishy project that was wobbly when I arrived.

What remains one of the best life hacks I’ve ever learned: at any chain that has a phone number-based rewards system needed for discounts (CVS, Duane Reade, etc.), simply put in the local area code followed by 867-5309. There is always already an account. You will always get the discount.

If there is a scent collection for VE Schwab’s Shades of Magic series, I’m in without hesitation.

Sensory worldbuilding absolutely yes!

I’m taking on a new project and during the transition process, I startled someone with the speed and emphasis of my negatory response to the suggestion of starting a Substack.

Smart to have on hand, even if you have good cooling in your home, because power outages can happen especially if you live in an area where the electric company shuts down grids to prevent wildfires.

An important step in submitting print orders online to FedEx is cursing their infuriating website.

The easy thing about my creative retreat to focus on a project is seeing friends' studios, visiting my fav taco spot, sipping the dirtiest martinis, making plans to sip mezcal fucking negronis that are SO GOOD, a friend bringing me fresh bread, and still there's time to do my work.

The hard thing about my creative retreat to focus on a project is that in the evenings I want to teleport my husband and the cat and the dog here so we can relax and end the day together.

This enormous collage by Njideka Akunyili Crosby! Also, this is a portrait of Michelle Obama with her husband in the background and I'm alright with that.

I need to get off this couch and go meet up with my bestest art pals but I started listening to Rush on the sound system where I’m on creative retreat and now I want to hear all the songs. Gonna have a nerdy date with 2112 when I get back.

How fucking dare they. If anything, it should be required that Appetite for Destruction be played in its entirety instead of just the usual three tracks.

Just gonna paste this to my desk and my laptop and tattoo it on my arm or something so it see it every day.

This is a much more impressive accomplishment than becoming a trillionaire

I’m a participant in an art competition in a festival where the tents are all lined up along the side of the street that will face directly into the long afternoon sun.

Picked up the first 3 and preordered the upcoming book for some summer reading material.

baseball is always some guy who is a physically perfect specimen being guided day and night by world class trainers, nutritionists, and doctors hoping to beat a record set by some guy named Pickles Bitch in 1937 who lived on cigarettes and moonshine and did not exercise other than baseball games

I love the uspspspsps

Ok, maybe I like some forms of gardening.

At least there is a setting to disable DMs and group chat invites on here. May that never go away.

WTF would anyone want to be in a 50-person group chat?