My physio exercises now include some extraordinarily painful stretches. Ow.

Who needs some daffodils?

Two to four and seven to nine When I visited my grandparents as a child they would always tune into the local radio station at noon to hear In Memoriam, the listing of recent deaths and upcoming funerals that the station included in their mid-day programming. Funeral traditions in that time and…

Mists of Avalon

Apparently they've made a movie of the book I liked the least of those I read in 2022. Will I be able to resist making this face 😬 at people who are excited? Did they adjust the things I hated?

The weekend is almost here! Anyone want to recommend a video game to me? I have recently enjoyed Portal 1 and 2 and before that, Disco Elysium.

Oof. Substitute ballet teacher today was a guy that I've had before. And his classes are pure chaos. Fun. Sometimes. But way more frustrating than my usual teacher.

I had to miss the salt mine trip because I had a piano competition that day. At the time I didn't mind, but now I regret not having gone to see the salt mine.

*Learns why Power BI is erroring out where it is* It does /what/? Who thought this was a good idea?

Apparently I'm not making it to church this week. No good reason. Just feeling antisocial and gloomy and sluggish.

Oops. I have mismanaged my library books and have nothing to read on a Sunday when the library is closed. Disaster.

Untitled One of the difficulties in this passage is that blindness is being used both as a physical condition and as a metaphor for an unwillingness to notice or understand. The physical disability, the text makes clear, has no moral implications. It is not sinful to be blind nor is it punishment…

Driven out of bed by the stupid shoulder pain again. Is it getting better? Or worse?

I have a great new idea of how to explain something at work. Unfortunately getting the numbers I need to do it properly is going to be annoying.

I have successfully convinced my library to order Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social So far they've ordered just about every book I've requested. Which suggests I should Request More Books.

So I'm thinking about starting to track my shoulder pain so I can say something informed when my physiotherapist asks how it's been. Anyone have a symptom tracker they like? I want something that asks me regularly how the ongoing pain is and makes a nice chart.

It's time once again for Swimming Lessons Scramble.

My coworker is using Copilot to add random flowery sentences to her work for me to edit out. *Sigh*

Noon The text this week is careful to specify that it's noon. That could mean be for several reasons. Maybe it's just context setting, part of the excuse for Jesus to sit here by a well waiting for his disciples to return with a midday meal, tired and thirsty from the morning's activity, but I…

Everyone is going on about the price of gas so I went and looked at a gas price tracker and... Americans, you are not paying enough for gas. That's some silly 1999 gas price.

I have computed a thing two different ways and got values within 0.5% of each other. Is this good enough? Usually I'd say yes, but it's the kind of difference that is likely to confuse some of our executive.

Time to make a cauldron of chili.

Maybe 15 years ago I was a grad student working on mathematical models of HIV transmission. We were working with some clinicians and public health people to provide modeled predictions for their work. The question came up: do we need to include drug failures and drug resistance to the model?

I replied to a post by the local group of NIMBYs who spend all their time opposing bike lanes saying how much I love the redesign of a nearby street. How long before I get hate responses? #yyjbike

First John 3:16 is very often the first verse we ask children to memorize. The very first summary of the Good News that we teach kids. With adult eyes it can feel kind of trite and simplistic. I have a hard time seeing around that. Teaching this as a summary of the entire Gospel can mean that it…

Lectionary Readings for the Second Sunday in Lent Genesis 12:1-4 Psalm 121 Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17 Previously Miracles Start Over

Sometimes when I go to knitting, I don't knit. So here's my new lanyard and card holder for my workplace access pass. I might not like the lanyard yet.

I went to knitting after a few weeks off and... There's a couple of people who have started coming regularly only recently who just talk so fast and so constantly that it's exhausting.

Oops. 63 million rows. This will not be happy.

So when I make these, it always starts with guessing about how much yarn I need. When I made the big one, I cut twice as much yarn as I ended up needing, so now I've also made this little one. I still have yarn cut for one more of the small size. Maybe I'll reverse the colors.

Time for some whining: I keep saying that I'm tired but I don't know if that's actually an accurate description. Grouchy, demotivated, and my stupid arm hurts.

Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile?

Oops. I've been blocked. How come I'm never blocked when I'm actually being mean, only when I'm trying to communicate basic facts? This is an exaggeration I think

Ugh. My dashboard is too slow.

The car has a flat tire. Caused by a screw. I have thus had to go for groceries on foot and I am tired and sweaty now.

Arts and crafts for Lent. This object is made of knots like an Orthodox prayer rope, but I've gone to some trouble to give it big and small ones in the pattern of Anglican prayer beads. It turned out a little chunkier that I might have preferred so I'm going to do another smaller one soon.

Bread How to bake bread: Flour, water, yeast, oil, salt, a little sugar. In a large bowl, dissolve a spoonful of sugar and two tablespoons of active dry yeast in a cup of water warmed to bath temperature. Let it stand for 10 or 15 minutes, until the yeast dissolves and floats to the surface in a…

Oops. I'm supposed to be almost done my blog post for this week. But I had a shower and now it wants to go in an entirely different direction.

Physiotherapist says my range of motion is improving. Do I believe him?

Today, my shouting and swearing coworker has escalated to swearing *at me* so that's unpleasant.

Bedtime. It's Lent tomorrow so I shouldn't see any of you until 5 pm. I probably won't make that...noon? Yes. Noon at least.

Man, my planed paintings for Lent are going to be sad.

Moooooar hiring freeze. Ugh.

Just when I think my shoulder might be improving I stubbed my toe this morning and it left me cursing.

Well the number of cars I passed on my commute suggests that people have noticed the bridge is (partially) closed. I did my part to demonstrate that they would be happier on a bike. #yyjbike

Oh no! If we don't force small children to perform gender in one narrow way they might not learn how to perform gender that way! How terrible! (Sarcasm. Sorry)

New glasses picked up this afternoon. I hate picking out new glasses, but putting on a brand new pair with no scratches or smudges is always amazing.

⭐️ Pass it along, let’s see your pfp in its full-sized glory! ⭐️ I should really keep trying for a better self portrait.

Trying to pick paint colours for Lent. Not sure I quite have it yet.

Lectionary Readings for Transfiguration Sunday Exodus 24:12-18 Psalm 99 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9 Previously Transformation Stories Note: I'm taking a break this week. I'll be back next week with the first Sunday of Lent