The Internet is haunted today and I’m going home.

The colors of the sky, hills, and plants in the Bay Area in October is positively unreal and every year I lament that I can’t take the whole month off to wander SF and hike in Big Sur.

Well that was a good jolt

Good lord we made four different kinds of beans from four different cuisines today.

If the redistricting mess isn’t the best argument for the popular vote, I don’t know what is.

In addition to being a GenX fest, the gender ratio at this show is somewhere between tech conference and Rush concert.

My poor husband sent me a lovely FT article on James Sanborn on.ft.com/45Eu37h and is now unwittingly roped into watching Elonka Dunin’s Defcon12 talk on it (I was at this one and was fascinated) before breakfast. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3p...

A good rule of thumb is to never have too many direct reports that you can’t have a cookie for each performance review you finish.

Through some process of cultural education, we are currently showing the kids 70s Soul Train.

Happy Nextdoor “was that gunshots??!?” Season to all who celebrate.

Signs of a completely neuro typical household. It’s the time of Saturday when we compare and merge our lists.

Y’all realize we could have gotten rid of artificial dyes and still kept vaccines, right? That was totally an option.

How much of modern IT leadership is advanced acronym disambiguation?

Having a sibling is important because it teaches you to truly, deeply, personally annoy another human being.

This is amazing for a very specific subset.

The 10yr old dropped a book on their foot and we gave them unlimited swearing privileges for 15 seconds. Quality parenting.

It’s been a lazy productive Sunday and husband had the momentum to re-org the records. Just found he has one Modern Jazz Quarter album in triplicate. I was with him when he bought the third and was genuinely excited to find it. Gotta admire the consistency.

I see that I'm in for another week of explaining that end-to-end encryption will not fix stupid.

I was unprepared for the number of raffle tickets I would need to sell for kids activities during the fall of democracy.

For the next few months, I am reveling in being baseball/softball mom. The views from the fields these Berkeley/Albany kids have are insane. Also I hit two line drives off my 10 yr old in practice.

Parenting 2025. How to be in the moment when you really don’t want to be in this particular moment.

Join me for my webinar “Managing Your Nervous Breakdown with Snacks”. (snacks not provided)

I’m not saying I measure my self worth entirely on the amount of soup I can produce in a weekend, but 1) there are worse measures 2) look at all this fucking soup.

I don’t know why but my husband has gotten into Boards of Canada (one of my favorites in college) so I’m enjoying my house’s little time warp to 2000.

I have long considered a lightning round for technical incident managers where the interviewer calls out a word and the candidate must spell it. It’s harder than it sounds. Help me crowdsource this. I’ll lead off with iSCSI.

Let’s kickoff Black History Month with a short doc on Bad Brains! 🤘

I regret not keeping a diary of all the stupid ways it was DNS and turning them into a poster.

I know there is only one day left, but nothing else is allowed to be broken because of DNS this week.

I have turned leftovers from three different meals into soup and added cholula and this is… helping?

I know some of y’all do this for fun, but there is no clearer indication that my day has gone severely sideways than if I have wireshark open.

8:58 to 9:05am on summer camp sign up day with two working parents.

Gallery wall planning. What a distillation.

It wouldn’t be a holiday weekend if someone wasn’t sick.

Practicing a language your kids are fluent in is fascinating and humbling.

I’m not so big on the major holidays, but I love the unnamed ones. Today is the Day of Productive Laziness. The last known no-obligation day for foreseeable future. Traditional activities include shoe care, prep cooking, esoteric organization tasks, and pajamas until noon.

We’re gonna find out this is related to RFK somehow

It’s Halloween, if you’re not gluing spiders on your children before 7am what are you even doing with your life?

Y’all have Elf on a Shelf, I just spend the entire month of October stealing the porch skeletons back from the kids’ rooms and taking them on little adventures

I will not offer cuttings to random college students in the grocery store, I will not offer cuttings to random college students in the grocery store…

Is there a cult favorite “whisper Pokémon” or “Stealth Pokémon” version I can introduce my kids to?

It’s a daily challenge to explain to people who don’t work in infrastructure just how much the internet sucks.

Lawrence Hall of Science on a rainy holiday. Imagine if all the mannequins in an REI went to a science museum.

Life tip. If you make a random cake and freeze most of it in sections, you can enjoy random morning cake months later.

Moving is dumb. Stuff is stupid. I have some strong words for former me who thought this whole remodel was a good plan.

A fair measure of how old you are is whether you Google your name and hope to find yourself in the results or not.

I’m well aware that is because I’m always running on adrenaline but man it would be nice for my body not to fall apart like the Bluesmobile every holiday weekend.

A small secret to happiness is the 30 hour vacation. Low prep, no filler, just the highlight reel.

I kind of gave up on social media. Should I come back or just enjoy my peace?

Protest for Palestine combined with Black Friday means people in full tactical casually picking up a few things in Trader Joe’s