I know I'm far from being alone in this, but the thing I hate the MOST about AI is that I am just NOT INTERESTED in anything a machine can say or create. I'm not interested in fake animal videos bc the thing I care about is the natural wonder of real-life animals. >

Okay so I don't know if you know about the Potato Bed trend that the youths online are doing? It's where you take a fitted sheet and use it turned up on a bed and you fill the edges with pillows and you line the middle with blankets and you climb in and it's like the best possible dog bed?

I LOVED this little fic so much. I want so much more! Due South & Heated Rivalry - weirdly ideal! archiveofourown.org/works/79411671

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

hold on i gotta take this

hello! I have exponentially fewer meetings this week than last week, so I'm getting some things DONE. I put together our tax stuff to send to our accountant! We got a clogged tub fixed yesterday!

God, remember Must See TV back in the day? Thursday nights ROCKED.

I FINISHED WATCHING ALL OF ER.

…that’s weird, Chili’s.

I was responding to fic comments and when I do that, I also look at how people have bookmarked my fics and there was a bookmark on a Wangxian fic that just said, "I need to eat this" and I just hope that person is having a nice day.

Book Checkpoint: Last: The Inimitable Jeeves Current: Right Ho, Jeeves Last added to TBR: The Mars House by Natasha Pulley, Hail Mary by Andy Weir

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

Another family entry on DW, this time with slightly less trauma! brooklinegirl.dreamwidth.org/1541949.html...

okay. chili is burbling on the stove, I'm having a 4pm beer (...half a beer, b/c the other half went in the chili), I gave my wife some ibuprofen for her back, and I'm just gonna SIT for the next hour.

having to work after a major blizzard is terrible. Snow days existed for a reason. I love WFH, I do, but the fact that the only options are to work AND deal with snow sucks so hard. I basically told my staff I don't care what they do, just give me plausible deniability.

Just took the dog out, it’s up to a foot and it’s largely over his head and he peed but NO poop was forthcoming.

Foreboding dinner vibes

got the snowblower gassed up and oiled and it started on the FIRST TRY! I am READY.

Hi, friends. More complicated family stuff, so here's another DW entry: brooklinegirl.dreamwidth.org/1541821.html

L works until 8 tonight so it's just me, this giant brownie for dessert, and Noah Wyle hanging out tonight. (I saved S2 Ep 1 for tonight and am SO HAPPY to settle in.)

stressful family morning plus long call w/my sister means the house is SUPER organized, as are my feelings.

I love you, Ken Jennings.

I have a lot of complicated family stuff going on and I wanted to talk about it but with no locked posts here, I posted to Dreamwidth about it. brooklinegirl.dreamwidth.org/1541536.html

I took today off, which was SO SMART. So far I have: grocery shopped, taken down Xmas with L (GONE. GONE. BYE DECORATIONS. BYE TREE. I LOVED YOU AND NOW I LOVE THAT YOU ARE GONE), walked the dogs, went for a run on the treadmill, cleaned out the fridge, and wiped down the kitchen.

Jacque’s

@philosiraptor.bsky.social Blåhaj pines for u.

I had to work today, and I did, and won a few battles, but also I: set up Max's vet appt, scheduled the car to be serviced, ret'd 2 xmas gifts, called the roofers, remembered a pw to share with my SIL, increased my cloud storage. paid L's LLC taxes, set several reminders, picked up the dog, and had>

my wife wrote Heated Rivalry fic and it's SO GOOD and SO SWEET and SO THEM.

extremely rough xmas with my family but I got through it and L's family was amazing throughout the holiday. we've had a very nice weekend, had chill hangs with friends last night, and today the only time I have left the house is to walk the dogs.

WHAT A NICE FAMILY CHRISTMAS ADAM

Me:"I was REALLY into Boy George for a second when I was younger." L, who has known me for just - so long: "B/c of the A-Team?" Me:"BECAUSE OF THE A-TEAM." L:"I would really-like, GENUINELY-love to know how many people on this planet exist who can say they got into Boy George b/c of the A-Team."

I got up this morning, immediately drove to NH and back to run an errand with my dad, got home and immediately turned around to go to a bday party for a 4 year old, came home and COLLAPSED INTO SLEEP, and now our only plans are DINNER and COUCH and BEVERAGES and HOCKEY. (It's a show about hockey.)

We're starting Wake Up Dead Man. L: "I'm so excited for this. I love having no connection to Catholicism." Me: "...fa la la la la." L: "Hanukkah's sooner than Christmas." Me: "It's not a RACE." L: "...but we're WINNING."

L: “I accidentally poured your tea before you were ready, but don’t worry, I put a lid on it.” The lid:

When we two parted, in silence and tears Half broken-hearted, to sever for years Pale grew thy face, and cold Colder thy kiss Truly that hour foretold sorrow to this

Us, watching a Heated Rivalry lead-up to a sex scene. L, "oooh, that is so cute, that is SO CU--omg look at that monstera."

we have had A Week, but we made it to Friday. L is making us vegetable soup, we're going to listen to Xmas music and have a little adult beverage, and then watch the latest HEATED RIVALRY, because hockey is my passion. I just love sports.

Here's a controversial take, I think AOS Scotty is less married to the Enterprise than TOS Scotty is. TOS Scotty you look at him & you KNOW that man has (& definitely will again, possibly even as soon as you leave the room) fucked the enterprise. You know that he's a wifeguy but his wife is the ship

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

Star Trek got it right in so many ways, but the biggest one is not naming their computer systems. It’s just “computer” so that no anthropomorphizing human or otherwise brains could mistake it for anything else. We should learn from Star Trek.

2 family members who were at Thanksgiving tested positive for covid today SIGH. L & I just had it mid-Sept, and we got vaxxed again like 2 weeks after that, but STILL: ugggghhhh. In a prepare for the worst, hope for the best course of action, we did all the laundry, washed all the sheets, >

It me. I am Ken Jennings. Why did Tracey of last year make these decisions? No one knows.

When you see this, post an image from your gallery describing your mental health

everything came out amazing, family arrived slightly early but that's okay, we sat down to eat at 3:06 (target of 3pm), BIL cleared the whole table while I did EVERY SINGLE DISH. NO dishes are left dirty, everyone was GREAT, I made my MIL happy by silently presenting her with sliced sweet onion>

somehow forgot to link the song in the OP so here you are

Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...." web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2

As god intended.

It’s all happening! #food

3 in laws* are here already, 1 more arriving shortly. we made pie dough, cabbage rolls, and scones last night, and a pumpkin pie, raspberry crostata tonight, as well as cranberry sauce for tomorrow. The turkey is brining in the basement fridge, and we have SO MUCH more cooking tomorrow, but it's>