We hired arborists to trim our trees in front. It’s happening now and our cats are fascinated / concerned.

It’s new fair food day! I’m looking forward to the vegan Korean bbq and Iemochi Japanese Confections. www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/

This is so disappointing. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Random childhood memory surfaced. My Dad & his wife arguing over which actor was in a movie, what year it came out, etc. and me being sent upstairs to retrieve THE BOOK. It was Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide and it was HEAVY. The 1988 edition was 1222 pages long. Now we have imdb.

A former coworker is in Amsterdam, in a museum I didn't get to on my trip, and this is how I learned about an amazing swan car. www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

Pet peeve. When people pronounce SMEs as smeeeeeze. Makes me think of Sméagol.

Day two of closed windows due to the heatwave. Hajime has been voicing his displeasure loudly and often.

This morning I closed our storm windows, lowered all the blinds, and have been running our two window units in their energy saving modes. The cats are not happy. It's going to be a long week / heatwave for them and for us.

What a wonderful thing to be able to walk from our home into the happy chaos of the @wedge.live Cat Tour. We saw many fine felines, friends, and neighbors.

The forecast is looking fiiiiine for tonight's annual Wedge Cat Tour! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Playing the “How many times will I hit snooze this morning?” game and losing.

Once again, I am currently motivated to do a big purge and re-org of my bedroom / office and our basement storage area. But I can't because it is now the work day and I have meetings to attend.

Happy Solstice sunset!

Twice this week I had to fast for medical tests. Today I wasn’t even allowed water. But after I treated myself to breakfast at Shish, with a pistachio latte.

Our entire building shook a little bit ago. I wasn't sure what was going on. Took my headphones off and heard chainsaws. Apparently our street is closed so a giant tree across the way could come down. Our poor cats are on edge now.

Fundraiser for the 15 folks in Minnesota indicted yesterday for anti-ICE organizing, from a vetted source: chuffed.org/project/1865...

I’m fasting twice this week for different medical procedures. Thankfully I was able to schedule both appointments early. And I am grateful to have employer-based health insurance again. But driving before caffeination is going to be a challenge.

The Parkway is one of my favorite venues in town. Last night we enjoyed an intimate show there with River Butcher and opener Gabby OK. I’ve been a fan of River’s in all of their incarnations. But even more so now that we’ve both been diagnosed with autism and ADHD.

My son noticed a package had been delivered to our back door but was intended for a building one block over. He asked me to pull the address up on Google Maps so he could see which doorway to re-deliver it to. Good lad.

To the person who woke me up by laying on their car horn repeatedly just outside my house at 5:30am…no words. But thoughts and curses.

Was trying to define what makes Minneapolis unique today while I was discussing with my wife whether to go to the LOTI pencil sharpening, when I got distracted by a station wagon with a canoe twined to the roof and nearly tripped over a pig on a leash. Anyway, haven’t quite put my finger on it yet

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

Enjoying the rumbly thunder while reading a book.

My son left the house while I was in a team meeting. Unfortunately, our orange cat treats any departure by his favorite human as a full-scale tragedy and responds by yowling at top volume. Today my coworkers got to experience this live performance, despite my noise-suppressing headset.

What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

Relationship milestones. Just helped my partner haul an awkward and heavy piece of furniture from their upstairs and into the alley. And we’re still in good spirits. Gold stars for us!

Gender is a social construct, biological sex is not binary, and love is love. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🩶🤎🖤🤍 Happy Pride!

WATCH LIVE: Four Twin Cities community members will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on behalf of the region for its actions during "Operation Metro Surge."

This afternoon we sampled our first Sparglefest at the Black Forest. After catching a free screening of “Perfect Days” at the Pillsbury Theater at MIA. A pretty perfect day.

Patio weather has arrived. Last night we enjoyed Sea Salt for the second time in a week.

My partner and I have been watching The Great British Pottery Throwdown. Usually we mute the ads but we’ve been delighted to see this one from Tesco promoting inclusion. creative.salon/articles/fea...

What a man. A dragon-man.

The Parkway Theater is one of my favorite places in town. So much so that we wound up in the front row Thursday and Friday night for very different shows. First, for The Joy Formidable. Fabulous.

I just walked into my partner’s house to Kenny Loggins “This is It” blasting. Fuck yeah, party weekend!

I ate too much dark chocolate too quickly. Happy Friday!

Gigi got into bed with me at 4:55am this morning for an epic 2+ hour cuddle session. I drifted back to sleep a few times but she licked my face to rouse me, demanding more petting. She was purring the entire time.

When asked a question, one of our customers on this call just said “sorry, I walked away for some grapes.” Now nobody’s paying attention because we’re all imagining cold, perfect grapes we do not currently have. I'm having some delivered via Imperfect Foods but not until Thursday.

Despite a packed day, I took an after work walk. And encountered a baby (held by parental units) screaming in the peace garden. Relatable. But the wailing pierced through my noise canceling headphones. So I kept on trucking and took in the sights.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office issued a nationwide arrest warrant on Monday for the ICE agent who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and then lied about the circumstances that led to the shooting.

After the afternoon show at the VFW, we mosied over to moto-i for drinks and snacks. Sadly, they had already closed their rooftop patio hours ahead of the storm but we had a nice time anyhow.

Watching tweens cover Nirvana in a windowless room is not how I expected to spend my Sunday afternoon.

My partner is making us breakfast while blasting a secret playlist that includes You’re the Best Around and Higher and Higher. I’d feel more pumped up if I’d had coffee.

In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction twist, Ida Libby Dengrove had a twin sister Freda who was also a courtroom sketch artist. They worked at competing TV stations in NYC; one sister was left-handed & the other right-handed. We need an article or documentary on these two gallery98.org/news/twin-si...

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

Last week there was a cat named Tater Tot at the gym. Tonight we had a return visit by a sweet dog named Luna. And this is how they keep me coming back to the gym.

I went back into better sleep hygiene mode last night and made sure my phone wasn’t anywhere near my bed, which was good. Unfortunately, Gigi decided 5am was cuddle time, so I never got back to sleep. On the bright side, I received an hour and a half of premium Gigi cuddles.

Mother’s Day is complicated for me, as it is for many. But yesterday was good. Spent the day with my son & my partner: brunch at Dreamstate Cafe, wandering Lakewood Cemetery for Doors Open Minneapolis, soaking up sun on the patio at L2 at Tii Cup, then home to play Quiplash and watch Dust Bunny.

Yesterday marked 37 years since my brother Tom died. For complicated reasons my Dad hadn’t been to the cemetery since the funeral in 1989 (I visit at least twice a year). So I took him. Then we had lunch at Saint Paul Brewing then cocktails across the way at Crowbar.

I grew up in my Dad’s childhood home. Yesterday I learned that my bedroom had been my grandmother’s sewing room. In addition to her sewing machine, she had a mangle. I’ve heard of mangles before but wasn’t exactly clear on what a mangle did. Neat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangle_...

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...