Time for another episode of "mildly annoyed with my mother-in-law! She lives within driving distance of us, but we rarely see her so when we were planning camping this spring we invited her to join us. She'd love to, she says, but those dates won't work. So we adjust our dates and book the site.

Dangit. I had a great idea earlier, but it fell out of my head. The next 6 weeks of paintings will be gates and doors. They all line up nice except I don't know what goes with Psalm 17:1-7. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea... Any ideas?

..... Mayonnaise.

Is this a good opportunity to repeat my rant about why it's not a good idea to "ban" "kids" from "social media"?

Welcome We're still in Jesus' instructions to his disciples as he sends them out and here he reminds them again that they go as his own representatives. Whatever welcome they recieve is also a welcome to him. It's not only his immediate audience who act as his proxies this way, its a larger class…

This little lady came out ok. Just in time for me to switch to different colours and a different fabric.

The Trorg's grade 8 graduation was yesterday, so today I am writing a note to a beloved teacher from my middle-school years because why not. But I'm in a weird brain space so what to say is hard.

Last night, browsing Instagram (I hate Instagram, but some of my family uses it) I was served a video in which a very young woman gets up at 5 am to cook and pack her husband's lunch. Ick. But worse, she starts by getting the cooler from his truck and ends by putting it back in the truck.

I need a haunted house story about a ghost whose unfinished business is a home renovation.

Alive. Good. And I think probably technically a nerd dad though his nerd interests are things like "theology" and "woodworking" rather than the usual nerd things.

All this wood was transported to my house in a Toyota Matrix this afternoon. Also, previously, other amounts of wood, and this concrete.

Not Above This section is still Jesus instructing his disciples as he sends them out to minister to the various towns and villages in the area. It's a little bit scattered and feels like he's piling on last thoughts and jumping from topic to topic. It's a little bit like that song/commencement…

This cake was proclaimed a masterpiece

I must leave work in 25 minutes. Don't let me forget

Huh. I'm triggering the code to leave the queue, but no one is leaving the queue.

My spouse is convinced that he will not die in office because he's being too closely monitored by medical professionals. I think my spouse is too optimistic about the power of doctors.

One step in the hiring process at my workplace is traditionally a written assignment. The last time I got to read the assignments there were a few that were probably AI, boring, not very good. But there was also a person who misunderstood the assignment in interesting human ways. We hired them.

Harvest This week we see Jesus realize that he can't do it all alone. No matter how powerful he is, how much he is God incarnate, he is also human, limited by the reality of time and space, bound by the laws of physics. He can't be everywhere at once. He can't help everyone, and there are so many…

Painting in the out of doors.

... I just recieved a recorded call soliciting donations for...something I dunno. The dude sounded just like Cave Johnson from Portal 2.

So Microsoft Word is doing a thing where it guesses what formatting (text color and style) I want based on the formatting of previous bullets in a bulleted list. It is uniformly wrong. Does anyone know if it's possible to turn this shit off?

So we have this plan for the basement and one particular element of it, half the time we mention it to people they go "Cool!" And half the time they go "that's ridiculous, expensive, not worth it, why would you do that?" So we keep second guessing ourselves. (Electric) Heated floors. Thoughts?

Uh... So I did this survey and got oats. Yay! Oats. But then I thought, hey I like bread, can I make bread with just oats? And I think I'm about to go down a rabbit hole of developing my own oat bread recipe because the internet is only offering me obvious AI nonsense.

Ugh. This Wednesday sure is Wednesdaying

Welp. Another day another letter to my MP opposing a social media ban for teens.

Tax collectors and sinners Jesus is clear about who his ministry is for and it's not the Pharisees. Instead, his focus is tax collectors and sinners. But I, like many Christians, might resemble the Pharisees more than I do the sinners. So what does that mean for us? First though, a reminder, the…

My head itches. I have confirmed that it is /not/ a return of the head lice. So what do I try next?

Ok! I have code that produces the same output as the old methodology. Now It's time to write some code to compare to the old way. Cross fingers that they're the same ignoring randomness

Fish.

Ugh. My workplace employee appreciation week is coming soon. So many stupid events invitations illustrated with AI images.

I have convinced my code to make a pretty little diagram of resource usage during a process my employer is interested in and I've just got to say... The Python diagrams library is a pain in the neck.

Stayed up late last night to finish The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net It's fabulous. A fun boarding school book with a clever perspective and some interesting thoughts on the construction of identity.

Creation In the beginning a teacher stood on a mountain in Galilee and sent his disciples out into the world. He sends them out in his own image, instructing them to make disciples and continue his teachings. There are no longer twelve of them. They are no longer symbolic of all the descendants of…

I have spent the afternoon making some of the 2x4 studs of my house pretend that they are 2x6s

Whoops. Doubled the time it takes to run this code. Not acceptable. Need to be more efficient.

Sweet. Loblaws paid me $49.11

It's raining this morning so I wore my raincoat. bsky.app/profile/rivi... and had the following conversation with a stranger: Them: I love your coat! Me: thanks, I made it myself. Them: oh! You should sell those Me: ... No. Therefore a short rant.

Ooooh. I know why the city's been so busy the last few days. American tourists.

Whoa... They're reinstating the school board?! That's unexpected. #yyj

Every piece of advice you've ever heard about getting babies and toddlers to sleep is a heaping pile of confirmation bias. Your kid will sleep or not sleep according to their temperament and genetics.

I have read a book. Unfortunately, my library holds list has gotten away from me and there are 5 more books waiting for me on Monday.

I've been writing these for seven years now. Seven! How did that happen? I sort of feel like they're getting worse, but whatever, I'm going to write them anyway.

Afterwards Acts doesn't quite quote Joel here. It's Pentecost. The Holy Spirit has shown up with tongues of flame and a cacophony of voices in various languages. Peter stands up and tries to explain to the crowd what's going on with words from the prophet Joel. “‘In the last days, God says, I will…

My usual shawarma shop had a line, but never fear, there's another one. They seem like they might be new at this. But they didn't quibble about giving me some tap water.

.... Doesn't everyone use their devices on mute all the time?

My coworker just passed me a document mostly produced by AI. I don't think this is useful

It's measure the orgs night. The Trorg is 8cm taller than a year ago and the Glorg is 6cm taller than a year ago. They'd better be careful or they will end up tall.

Ascension lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/a...

Another year's worth of paintings. Easter must have been earlier this year than last year.

Working on the rim joist insulation in my basement, there's always two questions: What shape does the insulation have to be to cover what it needs to cover? And how the fuck do I wiggle it in there?