Just got to break the news to S about how the last Doctor Who special ended and enjoyed that special moment where you get to watch someone's brain break in real time

Editor pounding the desk: Bleaker. Bleaker!

Full grain brewing day!!

Going to try my first all grain brew this weekend! Step 1 was to crush my grains, which actually required steps negative 10 through zero involving assembling the grain mill and remembering how to use it.

Valentine Cards by Project Coyote. 💕💌 I think @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social might enjoy these.

I think we all need this

Went down hard on an icy patch of lawn thanks to reactive dogs this morning. Ow.

Share this Aquarium valentine with someone who brings more color to your world ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Another excellent take

Neat! I didn't think of that. Of course the worst seats at the Super Bowl are still ~$3000 + San Francisco, but that's within the bounds of plausibility for regular people. (Although probably a depressingly rapidly shrinking pool of regular people.)

Post a banger that's not in english www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1yL...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Don’t know who needs to hear this but one of the puppies on the Puppy Bowl this year is named Chappell Bone

So this happens often enough (or is anticipated to happen often enough) that they have a professionally printed sign for it.

I do think vegan copycat recipes need to have some kind of disclosure of how long the taster has been vegan. Because trying to say a carrot boiled in liquid smoke tastes "just like a real hot dog" tells me the person has not had a real hot dog in decades, if ever.

Me: I'm going to blow my streak on my Wikipedia trivia game because I can't think of the name of the crab character from Spongebob Squarepants. S: Mr. Krab. With a K. Me: I thought Krab... Krabstofferson? For some reason. *types Mr. Krab with a K* WINNING

Snow! At the Anacostia

Check out this monstrous creation from CWG reader and snow sculptor Walter-in-Falls-Church! Officially, this is a "sea monster," Walter says. "i'm calling it "chessie"." He says he's working on a crab next, keeping with the Chesapeake Bay theme.

No, *you're* compulsively booking months' away out-of-area vacations in what definitely is not a transparent lunge for dopamine associated with imagined future fun activities

G R I L L I N G

I don't care how cold it is or what's coming out of the sky, I am grilling this weekend.

Lenticular flying saucers!

Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫⁠ ⁠ The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.

Are people using distilled vinegar for melting ice or something? My local Wegman's was almost completely sold out of it - literally one bottle left (that I had to improvise a low-crawl on the floor to fish out from the back bottom corner of the shelf, to the bemusement of several fellow shoppers)

Late night merch drop! I’ve got four sets of quilted earrings up for grabs: ko-fi.com/s/bffea18248

Me: Well, my car is mobile, surely there's somewhere nearby I can drive us that escaped the storm and we can take a walk without risking serious injury. The entire goddamned Commonwealth of Virginia:

#FindsFriday Another very good boy: celebrated by owner on neck who is definitely not eating a Subway. Rhyton drinking vessel from Menzies group of Apulian red-figure vase-painters 330-320 BC, before C3 BC #Roman conquest. In National Archaeological Museum Domenico Ridola, Matera, Basilicata. 🏺

what

Some people are trying way too hard at work today. This is not a real day, it is at best like a half, fake day. It's a day for chuckling at tasks and shrugging. (Also apparently it's a day for me to manifest all the soreness from my multiple wipeouts on the neighborhood ice.)

At work. Roads were actually generally fine, but someone really unplugged everyone's "good driving sense" computer and forgot to plug it back in.

4 of my team so far responding with varying degrees of polite laughter 🙃

You ever just, like, look at Chad and Cameroon next to each other and realize they look like a dude in a beret playing a saxophone?

It has been zero (0) days since two 2-cup Pyrex measuring cups fell out of the kitchen cabinet directly at my face. Remarkably, neither of them broke this time, whether because of or in spite of my catch-juggle-drop routine.

The elderly lobsterwoman who was the subject of the best photo ever has passed away. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...

is it too late to call Bryan Fuller's Hannibal "Eated Rivalry"

VRBO doing submarines now

Meatball is giving Shellshocked WWI Biplane Pilot energy after having to endure the ultimate torture (a 10 minute walk in the snow to do his business).

Doing a book cull for the first time in years for a local synagogue book sale. I have 3 book categories: (1) might read again; (2) definitely won't read again, donate; (3) definitely won't read again, but can't donate because I am attached to the feeling of remembering who I was when I read it.

Was thinking I might use tomorrow's Red X Day to brew the ale that S got me last year. It's all grain. I've... never actually done all grain brewing before. Done a ton of extract brewing; how much harder could it be? Did some reading about it. Yikes. Boy am I not ready for that on a day's notice!

Snow is up to duck neck in Kingstowne

That's, uh, 24 hours of precipitation? That's a lot of hours! That's kind of all of the hours.

I want to stay informed but also every time I try to read the news

The way this dog - who, I am certain, has been on multiple longer-than-normal walks today - manages to look not just expectant but morally outraged while whining to go out yet again (which he began as I started cooking dinner)

Float like a glass squid. What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

Read this; sat there, said out loud "Is it Jared Leto?" Googled. A tragedy in three acts.

S made an offhand remark about the changes in Nats games' broadcast plans for next season (essentially, MASN goes away and they're all-in on their flavor of MLB.tv), and that has me down a wormhole on our Verizon plans and I am MAD ABOUT IT

Me at 6pm last night: A lunch of sushi and fresh edamame will healthily sustain me through tomorrow :) :) :) Me now: if I don't get a CheezIt in the next 20 minutes I will not be responsible for my actions :) :) :)

Dang, tough crowd

OK I've sworn off football, especially NFL football, but that was amazing

Really amusing to me that I now have to mail my HOA dues to a PO box in Tampa, instead of a PO box in the post office 0.8 miles down the street from my house.