Yes, capitalism and fast fashion are bad, but today I split my pants at 10am, duct-taped them back together, ordered new ones for pickup, and got them from the store on my lunch break. So. Score one for material culture, I guess.

Lots of cats and one dog, I guess.

I am so damn grateful for my neighbors, who offered to let me park in their driveway so I didn't get plowed in. Plus, that's like 12 feet of driveway they don't have to shovel!

Doing crafts as the blizzard approaches, because it doesn't feel like there's much else I can do.

Victory!! Got everything except the bread. The worker said there was not a single loaf left in the store, which is totally unsurprising.

I ordered groceries yesterday afternoon. Pickups were full then, so I took the earliest time today, 1pm. It's almost 4 and they have still not started pulling the items for 1pm pickups. I dread to think what's going to happen to the folks who set evening pickup times...

I love whichever marching band is playing the "evil" theme from LotR, but it does make me want to stay up for the next 24 hours watching the movies.

Just got a text from a coworker like, "I have to get my appendix removed so I'll miss work tomorrow. Maybe back by Friday?" Dude, if I see you at work before FEBRUARY, I'm gonna call your mom on you.

"There Will Come Soft Rains" for 2026.

Reading baseball stories at REDSFEST, heck yeah!!

you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

I get to do a super cool (for a librarian) thing today, but also I have The Cramps From Hell, and I think that's terribly rude.

Pull from the center! They said. It's so smooth and easy! They said.

Have we tried playing a SEATBELTS song over reality? I mean it can't hurt.

Always wondered what a snow devil would look like.

Did they mike up the goal posts??

Damn, sure wish we had those two EXTRA POINTS right now!!

Grumpy staying Sleepy working Bashful dating Dopey posting I think maybe we're on to something here...

Now introducing: Ring Around the Moon--with special guest, Jupiter!

That game had more endings than Return of the King...

Beginning 2026 as I mean to go on: using up my yarn stash to learn new patterns. #BAYMTGO

Good morning to all the New Year's Resolution joggers from me, and a great big "fuck you get off the sidewalk" from my dogs.

Wait, "Song Sung Blue" isn't a Neil Diamond biopic??

Sure, 70 degrees, then a line of severe thunderstorms, and 25 degrees by morning. This is a very normal winter and nothing is wrong at all!

And now for the annual Christmas night reading of "The Star."

I actually love being the one to empty the bookdrop on Christmas Eve. It's pleasantly eerie with no one else in the building, and there's something delightfully transgressive about singing at the top of my lungs in a library.

My favorite gift from a little kid is a keyboard box that she'd made into a "pesu" box, with a pepperoni and cheese slice inside. If you're 5 and trying to sound out a word, "pesu" is a delightfully logical way to spell "p...ee...ts...uh." (Alt for qt: a kid's very phonetic spelling of shapes)

Hell is the feeling after you shovel the sidewalk when your body is sweaty from all the exercise but your toes and fingers are frozen and your sock fell down in your boot and your glasses won't unfog. A little too specific for Revelation, but there you have it.

Next, on True Tails of Terror! Snow touched my toe beans--I barely survived!!

Enough processing power to create galactic star maps and STILL unable to resist the pettiest digs. That's our Peri.

Me @ the Bengals, every year

This is 100% due to my cowboy songs playlist, and you know what? That's fair.

Got real artsy-fartsy with the berries in the snow.

Oddly enough, this is pretty much the exact arc of my languishing Western story's main character.

Nothing like getting absolutely DRAGGED by twenty preschoolers over your pronunciation of "Hanukkah." I am but a silly gentile trying my best, here.

The SNL "needs more cowbell" skit is now older than "Don't Fear the Reaper" was when they performed the skit. Sorry.

Speaking of deer, uh...let's not use the back door just now, huh.

5 animals you've seen in the wild: 1. Elk (Grand Canyon) 2. Red fox 3. Skunk (walked in front of me, no thank you) 4. Bald eagle 5. Dolphins (Florida coast) I was gonna say "deer" but it feels like cheating when I go out my back door and see this.

Further behavior suggesting my dog is a cat in disguise: He jumped off the bed to find a toy, climbed back onto the bed with said toy, and then knocked it onto the floor WHILE MAKING EYE CONTACT just to beg me to pick it up for him.

This happened again today. The salt is everlasting and I am so pleased.

I just wrapped up a Skyrim run, settled my character down in his manor with his pets and his kids. Stored all his armor, put on common clothes, and just as I go to sit him in front of the hearth... Game crashes. Perfect ending, 10/10, no notes.

"$150 for a stretchy phone purse? I can do that on my couch while watching tv."

Dreamed an entire crime-show episode, but now I can only remember that the key part involved mixing up Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.

If it's going to feel Arctic, at least we get the view, too!

Cozy night in with the goofballs.

Guess who now stands at the top of my front steps to demand head rubs when I come home? (Not. My. Cat. Allergies, dogs, etc. The neighbors feed all the local ferals, she's fine.)

Oh, wow, what a shame. Yeah, a shame it took so long!