Seriously! It was a Mylar balloon.

Would you care for a mini marshmallow?

Tell me again how Islam is a violent insular religion. Ahmed Al Ahmed told a friend he was with to be tell his family he died saving lives. He made a conscious decision to do the right thing for others despite the cost. This has always been my experience with Islam.

Mmmm. Bacon.

Deejay!!!

@chloedenmark.bsky.social I saw your request. I am not sure how this ended up in my capybara feed. But that is the goofiest looking tiger I’ve seen.

“Every side you look at is more interesting than the next” I don’t think that means what you think that means.

Apparently in the midst of everything else work, I missed that my recert is due. In January. I suppose I’m taking my work laptop on vacation so I can review the application manual I haven’t looked at since I was originally certified. Epic loves to play word games in their questions.

What are you folks doing down there in Louisiana? Did someone leave the refrigerator door open?

Y’all, we dipped below freezing just before sunset. It’s 6:35pm EST and it’s now -2°C/28°F

When they read the final destination for this season of The Amazing Race I naturally heard it just like it should be: like it was a salsa commercial.

Catching up on #TheAmazingRace I am a bit puzzled. Adam is wearing an Omnipod, which is supposed to be a combo CGM and insulin delivery system. Yet the last few episodes it feels like the system isn’t working as designed with his wild fluctuations. Props for racing, but I’m concerned.

I want old doors. We had them in abundance back in New Orleans but I doubt they exist in this town. Replacing these hollow/foam core flipper specials would mar the place feel a bit more like it is 92 years old.

Apparently we are living in 1995 up here with a full on cigar shop opening. This has the feel of a cigar guy’s hobby and making money is less important than having access to supply. It is right on the square uptown.

We can all doomscroll the shootings at Brown and kn Australia, or we could all head over to r/guineapigs and play Where’s Theodore and watch Nugget chase the human vending machine around the house for blueberries. With a bonus Bismarck sighting. You know which one I’m choosing

It is 6°C/42°F. It is as warm as it will be today. It’s windy. By sunrise tomorrow it will be -9°C/16°F. How many blankets do I own? Can I use them all in the next 36 hours?

My stomach has decided I am not getting anything done today. I could try and remove the last of the autumn leaves, but I fear that would be just as bad as saying “let’s go for a hike”. So…hot tea and Legends ZA it is.

I would line to discuss your performance regarding treat deliveries this past year.

Looking at the difference between two authors and shows based on their works. Gibson was super engaged, live tweeted the episodes, and talked about show v book during the Peripheral. King is just running ads. I enjoy both and am not saying either is right or wrong. It’s just a difference in style.

If someone today made an image of Beaker wearing a brain slug under a hat with a shotgun as a tongue and an odd second hand on top of their hand, it would instantly be called AI. No, it’s Magritte.

Tonight we watch Star Trek: The One Where Janeway Outranks Picard. Not a great effort, but it closes out the TNG movie set.

Oh lort. Thoughts and prayers to all my former teammates. I can’t recall a Friday software release ever, so this has the ability to make this weekend unpleasant in Apple stores.

So Abbott recalled a bunch of their CGM sensors. Wanted you to run every serial number individually on their website. Just got a list of lots in the mail from my pharmacy. That is the right place to start. I know my first two were in the bad lots, but I don’t have them any more so no replacements.

What am I doing at work this fine, holiday season Friday afternoon? Making a cover for the inside of my u-shape ac out of the recycled fiber mats used for my refrigerated prescription delivery. Draping it with some fancy bandanas to hide the fiber mats. It’s kind of a semi-permanent install.

My neighbor and his super friendly puppy are outside taking leaves. Mailperson came and Joker ran up to her tail wagging. She stopped getting out of the truck. What he said to her “you’re fine. He might sit on your feet and lick you to death, but that’s about it.” And that is all true. I am a fan.

Ah yes, the square deep dish. I can’t believe it was this long ago.

I’ve eaten lunch at La Madeline. This is not the street it is on.

But…humans aren’t…the angels were… Ya know, whatever. But angels and Djinn are more closely related than angels and humans.

The Voltaggio brothers put up a 95/100 on the holiday ToC‽‽‽ that’s…beyond amazing in a cooking competition. This may be the fun/charity version of this competition, but there has been some amazing cooking. Next up? Voltaggios v Tila and Holt. This is gonna be an epic cook.

Ok this team of Jet Tila and Ashley Holt is doing some mad cooking on the holiday tournament of champions. A score of 94? Holy wow.

While I don’t hate someone suing to take the trade names, I don’t know that I want anyone to relaunch with that name. See also: Napster’s relaunch.

I don’t hate this. Yeah, it’s poppy but this playlist also had The Jonas Brothers on it. And her voice is more enjoyable. It’s “Christmas Classics” (debatable) on Music

Now this next song on out countdown is going out as a long distance game move to @blondoid.bsky.social who is embracing it this year… (End Casey Kasem voice)

Regularly scheduled check for earthquakes in the Yellowstone Supervolcano caldera…nope. Not going to happen today. Darn.

I will have gone past this town and what is clearly an indigenous mound any number of times when I was in Va and my patented were in Davenport Ia. Couldn’t tell you a thing about it.

Apparently getting the ladder out of the shed and dragging the tree out of the attic was enough of a PITA that my ring thought I was exercising. I was swearing a lot and doing some fancy balancing and laser ballet, but I was not exercising.

So I guess the Monroe Doctrine is well and truly toilet paper, eh?

Wait, we did what? Lemme guess. It wasn’t really a fuel tanker it was running drugs. Fug I hate this all right now. If one of our former allies who is on good terms with them doesn’t retaliate, I don’t know what it will take.

Y’all I blinked. Now it’s on my tree. Help.

Bandage (and diminutive size) aside, that is not a healthy looking hand. My NP would have merited if I looked that swollen.

Me too, bunny. Me too.

Yeah, he was hot for a minute in the nascar world. Now? Not even hosting the Red Bull soapbox derby like Jr is. Also, that show approaches MXC level entertainment for me.

The one that looks bigger than 116 people is Chapmanville which is right next door. And in that little triangle on the left where the big road splits off and crosses the river is a Tudor’s Biscuit World. Love me some Tudor’s. At least I did back in HS before they withdrew to WV only.

Blerg. That’s a city utility truck with what appears to be a big spool of the orange cable that is used for buried utilities of some kind that is unloading on the street. I may have an enforced day off coming up.

ID cat takes its job very seriously.

Will they run? Will they run so far away? Do they just run? Do they run all night and day?

Four letters, Peetie: WOPR That AI almost cause WWIII and so will yours. Also, AI cannot replace boots on the ground. I, like most former military, wish our old jobs were obsolete, but this will just feed more young adults into a meat grinder because it doesn’t see them as humans, just assets.

For the first time in my entire life I just had an eye doctor tell me my prescription hasn’t changed. Still bought glasses because my FSA money expires in 22 days. TWO pairs of wayfarers once this new pair comes in. 😂🤣

Huh. That’s the second school bus to stop and pick someone up in the part 20 minutes. It’s 9:30am. Wonder if schools were delayed because the northern part of the county got winter weather yesterday?