I downloaded a phone game that doesn’t cap your lives or force you to watch 100 ads, so I’m avoiding the world by becoming the world champion at Screw Sort Puzzle. There are many more useful things I could do, but today, my brain is not available for useful. Maybe tomorrow.

When you spent hours shoveling your car out and you REALLY don’t want anyone taking your spot

Chickity China the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'

My former boss was almost totally irredeemable, but this time of year, I do miss her annual wasteful spending to fly me into New Orleans for an urgent face-to-face meeting (really just so I could get a week-long break from PA winter). Otherwise, she sucked. But that was so good. For me.

I have 81 missed call alerts because unknown numbers go to Hades and they would all like to give me a large personal loan at a high interest rate. They have started sending texts and emails. Please make it stop.

Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had: 1. preschool teacher 2. theatre technical director 3. sculpture class model (no garments) 4. Congressional lobbyist (nonprofit, domestic violence policy) 5. Hot Topic accessories department lead

Would recommend Self-Pity Spaghetti. It’s like regular spaghetti, but you make it when fascism winter will never end and broil a layer of tasty cheese on top and it works to tuck you into bed like Benadryl, without the Hat Man of it all.

New threat just dropped

Once I read this novel where it started snowing and just never stopped and the people had to build a whole new society under the snow, so no, I don’t get a little nervous when there’s no end in sight to snow. Why do you ask?

I’m glad that no one’s bothered to plow our streets so that the new snow can just pile neatly on top of the Sunday snow. Imagining us found in late spring, perfectly preserved, like Han Solo in carbonite.

do you need me to light the joke and smoke it for you too

WPXI coming in hot with the most Pittsburgh comment on snow removal that has ever been quoted. www.wpxi.com/news/local/l...

People who live in Real Winter places are stronger than me. It has only been 36 hours and I fear I will succumb to wind madness from the noise outside. I am considering getting on my treadmill and walking until I collapse so I don’t atrophy. I am rationing our food since it needs to last a year.

Just finished the audiobook for Our Wives Under the Sea, and it blew my socks off. What a strange beautiful novel.

Just checked the 15 day forecast and it is not supposed to get above freezing and more snow is coming. It’s not going anywhere. I will see you all in May , or once the infrastructure is in place to burrow through the twelve foot high perpetual snow drifts.

Secretary Collins is a *Baptist military chaplain*. And this post on X is all he has said that his 442,612 employees mourning their colleague can see. No internal comms. Just blame and hate. Typical.

A basic tenet of my worldview is that fascism is very hard to sustain due to the fundamental rowdiness of people. You have to do so much for so long to contain it. You will never have enough guys. Eventually you just give up and start killing people but you go to sleep surrounded by the feral living

Once these people are all buried under the jail, petition to rename the Minneapolis location the Alex Pretti Memorial VA Medical Center.

Grieving yet another Nazi tragedy, I still put on my black sequined shorts and left the house for a pre-blizzard gay cocktail party, because Liza Minelli did not do Cabaret for nothing.

Pittsburgh history fun fact: McKeesport and McKees Rocks are named after two different unrelated McKee guys. (Thanks for being there when I googled @cpotterpgh.bsky.social )

I avoid outdoors in winter on normal days, but you know what? If we get as much snow as they say we will … yes. I do want to build a snowman.

Dear Lord. A CPR-trained kindergarten teacher and a personal care attendant got the agent through three seizures and into an ambulance and they arrested them anyway.

Oh man. Someone from headquarters asked me for a follow-up call after I did a presentation, so I was prepping for data requests, etc. She wanted to find out how to get herself a new job. Yes! Ask around for informational chats if you’re job hunting but like, tell people that’s what you want …

Someone on FB dubbed the impending storm Greenland’s Revenge, which made me giggle.

Pittsburgh : In case anyone can’t make it to the store. Promo code in their app is STAYWARM

Update! The harp was in fact burgled!

When my cat, Special Agent Fox Mulder, decides to stay in bed after I get up, it makes me wary of the vibe of the day as a whole. The animal kingdom says no to this morning. Why must I say yes?

For some reason, I thought watching Prozac Nation would be 90s nostalgic if a bit gloomy. I never read the book in its heyday and the movie did not make me want to. It’s tough to write a memoir and give yourself zero sympathetic characteristics but she sure managed to. RIP but yikes.

I need so much more information here. Was he disappointed in his musical career? Did he steal the harp and dove in to evade capture? Did he play a secret chord that drove him to madness?

Medical appointment notes are fun. Shout out to my doc for describing my neck as “supple,” and describing my vibe as “Appropriate affect, alert and oriented to person, place and time.” Over here meeting minimum expectations. And supple.

Y2K IS FINALLY HAPPENING

You do not have to hand it to the Pittsburgh Police, but in this one skirmish between evil and evil they have prevailed.

I’ve been on a Vienna Vienna binge since he played Pittsburgh Pride last summer so I was very hyped to see him get interviewed by Spin for the newest EP. Coming back to town on tour with Daisy Grenade in May. 🎉

Thinking about how people who’ve always lived close to their parents never have to experience a weekend overnight visit where you fully regress into a moody 13 year old and can’t leave to go to your own house. You don’t even know.

This is totally gonna crash, right?

"History will not look kindly upon______" Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait

Logging off work. I cannot submit a required online form because the last person who used it saved their own e-signature in the only online fillable PDF version (instead of to their own computer) and I cannot delete it. I will try again tomorrow when I will surely be more patient.

The Instagram community notes beta is going to be a problem hobby for me. I did not rack up $175k in student loans to let someone cite Upworthy as “proof” of anything. Fail. Your note is more of an opinion. Fail. I am an uncompensated mean but fair professor on the app where I look at crafts.

I am not watching the football tonight because my favorite team is not playing. But I am wishing ill on Miami in my spirit.

Phone alerts: The weather is coming to kill you. The world war is coming to kill you. The government is coming to kill you. Me: Sounds very bad but also way out of my control. Reddit “how to get turmeric out of quartz countertops”. Distract me, tedious chore.

Happy 80th to Dolly Parton, the greatest of singers, songwriters, and people.

Reminder to turn off your alarm if you are off work tomorrow.

Before the play starts the actors should have to act out trailers for all the other shows that are being staged at the theatre in the coming months.

Feels like 13 degrees F, so I’ll be adding more spicy chili crisp until morale improves.

Doo dah Doo dah

Fascinating read.

I had something on my daily to-do list for months and never did it. Took it off the list and now I do it every day. I don’t even respect my own authority. I’ll do what I want.

Are you approaching beavers like it's the Middle Ages? Then you are a fool.

Someone dropped the ball on a giant ticketing system so I’m trying to tag all of the topics to get them routed. Not thrilled that there’s a whole group of anti-LGBT complaints. I thought about (accurately) tagging them homophobia, but in these challenging times, I went with “political opinion.”

No, autocorrect. I am not using my work email to invite anyone to a Meat-and-Greet.