Today Jon was just casually like “They have made it easier for disabled people to immigrate to Canada, and I could practice there.” So there’s that.

Tried to explain the concept of the rapture to the teens. They concluded that Dad might get raptured, but Mom probably not 😜

Autistic people are great and do not need to be eradicated or cured. Mothers are not to “blame” for their kids’ differences and disabilities. Love, a mom of a kid with a neural tube defect that people also love to blame moms for.

To my friends experiencing newfound conviction about speaking up against political violence: Excellent, let's keep going. This is Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister, being attacked by cowards in masks while protesting political violence against immigrants in Chicago over the weekend.

This is just plain silly but also my dad is 70 and autistic af.

Walgreens confirms to me that they, too, will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription nationwide if CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations. (Please note that, for both CVS and Walgreens, this change is still contingent on that formal adoption!) Explainer has been updated to reflect this.

Required to repost this because FUCK YEAH PRESBYTERIANS.

Told pediatrician Jon about the "too much liquid in the babies" Trump vaccine comment and he was like "there's not too much of anything except too many people putting breastmilk in weird places."

Frankly I think we should close the bar. It's gonna be dead af because it's the first cold and dreary day of the year and everyone is gonna wanna be home in sweatpants eating soup.

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Dinner: miso/gochujang salmon, miso glazed turnips and carrots, sauteed turnip greens and kale, rice. 🍽️🍜

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Meal Prep Monday! 8 ham/egg/cheese breakfast sandwiches, roasted chicken thighs with a kale and squash salad, and pork enchiladas with a slaw. 🍽️🍜

Double shift worker marriage perk: we're both off today and we did all the Monday errands together.

McSweeney's insists on beginning decorative gourd season on the first day of fall, but to me the season begins Oct 1.

This got stuck in my head and according to my web searches it somehow didn’t already exist and it wouldn’t get out of my head until I actually made it so I did and now I’m going to share it with you.

Noting I needed at the ReStore but I spotted a cool vintage fridge that still works and two great bifold closet doors.

:: tries to add some context to a conversation over on X :: :: immediately regrets that decision ::

John Oliver says Bob Iger should use "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, 'fuck you, make me.'" youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...

The holidays are now a three-month-and-change-long slurry beginning on Earth, Wind, and Fire Day, during which you may celebrate any and all of your favorites til New Year's Day, after which time exists again

All the rapture jokes are funny but it also reminds me that when I was 6 I wanted to grow up to be a stand-up comedian and by age 8 my mother had convinced me the world was ending and Jesus was returning soon so I had no future and nothing to look forward to except heaven.

We are now on week 3 of my street being torn up and full of loud machines and beeping to replace a water main. How fucking long is this going to take?

Jon is home! And fell asleep next to me watching John Oliver and cuddling Pepper and he’s just the cutest.

Got a wild hair and tidied both hall closets. Even wrangled the grocery bag chaos—it is so dumb that Denver banning plastic shopping bags means even my Instacart orders come in reusable totes. I have TOO MANY TOTES.

Near-peak colors on the south side of Guanella Pass today (Abyss trail)! 📸: Matt Piechota #COwx

The text preached in my church today seems apt for another state-religious spectacle going on. From Jeremiah 8:

My kids are going through Confirmation class at church which is actually kind of a big commitment and I realized the only real analog I've seen is their friends preparing for Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. There's a weekly class all year plus other things like a retreat and a project.

I keep seeing "Kirk Service" and as a Presbyterian this is funny because we do the Kirkin O' The Tartans service every year, and it's like, bagpipes and tartans. (I also went to a Presbyterian college, our mascot was the Scots, we had a pipe band.)

What a great fucking metaphor they didn't mean to employ

Love to be switching out my bedding and discover that somehow my comforter got wet in the place where I stored it so now I have to wash it and hopefully de-stink it before use.

I love my fellow church congregants but some of them really need to stop being the "this is more a comment than a question" guy during the Q&A time in "adult faith formation" (we don't have Sunday School, we have like, lecture series.)

This is super cool. The more we farm and consume shellfish like mussels and oysters (not shrimp), the more those creatures clean our waterways.

Wore a scarf with a dress to church and Etta said "you look like a flight attendant." Teens: so encouraging.

Apparently the woman who invented the "like" button for Facebook grew up in our church (she joked that her dad was the only Jewish member of our church choir), and this morning she gave a talk on what happiness means for people of faith.

Turns out my photographer friend Dan captured me shopping from my fave farm booth today at the market.

If the rapture indeed happens this week, I think it would be great. Because believing in a rapture is such a niche American fundie/evangelical belief that it's basically a red flag that tells me a whole lot else about what that person believes. (I'm a lifelong Presbyterian, we don't believe in it.)

Jon's been out of cell range in the mountains this weekend and I'm about to explode because there are like 5 billion things I have wanted to text him already.

While Ultimate Butt stayed at Goodwill, I did bring home a cute yellow linen dress with great pockets and a pair of black button fly Madewell jeans that seem basically new.

JUST IN: The law, opposed by police organizations, was aimed by lawmakers at immigration agents and will test state powers over the conduct of federal officials.

Ultimate Butt

Today one of mine found a tee shirt with the name of their school and 67 on the back at Goodwill. “Omgggg this is even ‘in uniform.’ I could sell this for at least 20 bucks!” Me: “but what does it meannnnnnn.” (They insist it means nothing.)

This is why the best ones are sold in a 3 pack:

Do you know how much planning goes into a Disney trip? How on it you have to be to get the deals and the reservations and the lightning lane whatevers? These folks could plan a military invasion and they are not to be fucked with.

Box of Cheezits

We just started Runaway Bride and Etta is like “IF SHE GETS TOGETHER WITH HIM I WILL BE SO MAD. He’s SEXIST!” I’m like, kid, enemies to lovers is a major romcom trope.

Etta says I am making all her dreams come true this week: first I bought her a rotary cheese grater, then each kid got their own order of crab rangoons with the takeout.

I didn't wanna say it when everyone was talking about it happily the other day but I made the NYT plum torte and it was just ok. Seemed more like a breakfast than a dessert.

Ed Dwight is one of Colorado's true living legends. After becoming the first Black astronaut candidate, he continued to be a trailblazer in aviation, art, and science. I will continue pushing for Ed to receive the Congressional Gold Medal and recognition for his accomplishments.

LOL, dad hasn't replied to my texts in months but today he sent me an article about the Buffs getting a new buffalo mascot. I was like "I know, the other one retired because she didn't wanna run, truly my animal soul mate!"