Had a dream Alanis Morissette was recording video game soundtracks.

If you make a quince quiche is it called a quinche?

The pronunciation of bologna is itself. Like an evil onomatopoeia.

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

5154/50k. That was a lonnnnggg push tonight after I got the kids to bed. Gotta try to squeeze more in during the day.

Pro tip: if there’s buttons next to the screen, the second one down from the top right corner will probably mute the audio. My kid was button mashing one day and found it by accident, and it’s worked on every screen I’ve found since.

I was enjoying the new Igorrr at the gym, when, during a quiet part, the gym music bled through my headphones with Rhianna’s Don’t Stop The Music. Now I keep trying to play Igorrr in my head but instead I’m hearing Don’t Stop The Music by the Treblemakers. I can’t decide if I’m annoyed or confused

Day two, now at 3,351/50,000. Solid start, and today I got to write “The End”, because when this story landed in my head over a year ago, the final scene hit first, so that’s what I started with.

I wrote 1677 words today. Feels good. Elder kiddo is aiming for 5000 by month end. Youngest wanted in on the action, chose 20 words as a target. Then wrote the numbers 1-20 on a piece of paper and filled in the first 20 words she thought of. Wasn’t interested in making a story out of it. Perfection.

Kiddo challenged me to try nanowrimo again. I accepted, and decided to use an idea I had a year ago for a mid grade sci-fi. My swim this morning flew by, as I was lost to the world building going on in my head. This is going to be fun.

Fun part of Decorative Facial Hair season is picking fragrances. This year I went with Tea Tree for beard wash & conditioner, and a set each of Spiced Vanilla and Coffee & Whiskey for oil & balm, And lemme tell ya, I smell lovely.

How do I know the shopping center is evil? Every time it loses power it turns into Darth Mall

I think I’ve (uselessly) finally composed the perfect online dating profile: I’m the kind of guy that, upon opening a new package of single serving string cheeses with perforations between each packet, will separate each of the individual packets and then put them back into the original package.

I hated exercise until I signed up for my first sprint triathlon. That transformed exercise into training. I loved it so much that I just kept signing up for races in places I wanted to see, and that kept me training. The logistics of fitting in 3 disciplines around work was fun, too.

Happy to report my hair grow-out process has achieve troll doll up-do length.

I bet many of the lyrics of Take Down are from Rumi’s own negative self-talk while looking at herself in the mirror. 😢

Continuing a long history of being the absolute best:

Fry haddock, and loose the cods of war.

my max heart rate topped out 11 points higher than the supposed max for my age during my end of run sprint finish, and I did not die. Noice.

I had a dream last night that Brad Pitt was my advisor for some high level biology-ish course. I was worried I hadn't done a good enough job on my final paper, but he was very reassuring that my data was solid, my arguments well stated, etc etc. He was very kind and reassuring. It was weird.

got to see @dragonforce.com and @powerwolfmetal.bsky.social last night and it was absolutely phenomenal.

K-pop boy band with lyrics about overcoming the misogyny and toxic masculinity you were raised on, and also a little moon worship: Sokka Boys

When I was 15 I wanted to get on Letterman’s “stupid human tricks” segment so I tried holding a light bulb in my mouth & hooked the wires of an AC->DC converter to my braces to light it up like uncle fester. I came to with a sore head and decided that trick was perhaps a touch *too* stupid.

divide 6.6 trillion equally amongst the whole US population and every person gets almost $20k. I bet that’d boost ye olde economy a bit.

Finally watched kpop demon hunters and am now just looping through the soundtrack over and over and rewatching it in my head. Absolutely phenomenal art. Would not be surprised to learn some of the same people behind She-Ra were involved. Very similar vibes.

Still chuckling sadly about that camo jacketed snowflake who called me a “liberal jelly roll” among other things after I politely informed him he was not in an off leash park. I wonder how he’s doing.

Speed/black metal band name: Bury Allen

I can tell I’ve really grown as a person on the web because once a month or so I’m about to reply with some dry humor comment and then tell myself “I don’t know them well enough for this” and back right the heck up. It’s never too late, kids.

Pretty wild how many decades I walked around this earth with a flat ass and no idea that A) I could change that and B) doing so would finally allow jeans to fit properly. Dumps like a truck, truck, truck…

Next tattoo should be Piggie in Heath Ledger’s joker costume. Why so serious?

Yesssssssssss!

6yo said “Maybe Taylor Swift and Caspar Babypants and, um, Believer* are all friends because they all make such lovely music. And maybe they all live together.” * Imagine Dragons

8yo challenged me to a half pbj eating contest, but then foolishly laid out rules in which you just had to have the whole thing in your mouth. So, one bite later… life lesson learned.

6yo came up with the most horrifying food idea today. “Shrimp and yogurt lunchable.” Then really went for the kill shot with “Italian noodles and mustard lunchable.” And folks, I confirmed the mustard isn’t mixed in. It’s a dip.

I stopped Long enough to feel my feelings Now I cannot move

There’s surely more than one pic of me in a dress out there, but this one is my favorite

It’s been happening so long I can’t remember when it started but, every night about 8pm my brain starts playing Sonata Arctica’s “Replica” in a loop and it’s starting to get VERY CONCERNING

“Hi Will! 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. A quick FYI — to keep you informed and inspired…” I attended over a decade ago. Settle down. (Okok CCs are WAY better value for your dollar and do MUCH more for their communities than most 4yrs… but still)

I can remember “calgon, take me away” but can’t remember if it’s an opioid or a bubble bath.

Oh… my… god it’s diiiiip!!!!

Life has been very life-ey lately, such that I’ve barely had time to read let alone write, let alone think of writing as anything more than yet another item on the to do list. But today I got a rejection from a query I sent so long ago id forgotten about it 🧵

Always fine in the background: - Bluey - Octonauts - Gabby’s Dollhouse Mid: - Blippi Want to cut off my own ears: - Peppa Pig

Started reading Tress of the Emerald Sea and the narrator’s voice was immediately Patrick Stewart in the style of Nightmare Before Christmas. Solid choice, brain. Well done.

I get very upset at shows with unrealistically cheerful and redirectable children. Looking at you, Peppa.

Probably already exists but before I look it up, just wanted to share that my brain has started composing Minecraft themed lyrics to gangsta’s paradise. And I’ve been minin and craftin so long that, even my llama thinks that my mind is blown…

If I had a Time Machine… one of my stops would be the loading dock at that abysmal ‘zon warehouse in McDonough, GA, where I overheard coworkers talking about how it’s ok to spank their kids because they themselves were slapped around a little and turned out fine. No, you didn’t.

I miss the days when all I needed to make sense of the world was a few new storage bins and a label maker.

“choose between letting them have a conversation to grow their bond and stopping 8yo from describing the premise of squid game to 5yo” was NOT on my parenting bingo card

One of the many situations no parenting book or article I read ever prepared me for is being woken up after 90min of sleep to help another human potty, and slowly discovering with bleary eyes in the half dark that it’s actually already happened, & a while ago, & now you’re doing laundry at midnight

Captain Barnacles (Ross Breen) often sounds to me like Matt Barry and it certainly adds a certain something to the story to imagine Douglas Reynholm as an oceangoing polar bear.