the bliss of working out in a nearly empty gym, one of the best things about holidays 🧘🏼‍♂️

Screaming at my television about Heated Rivalry episode 4, such a dramatic adaptation of the book! There's plot too!

albums setting the cold day vibes well: Heaven or Las Vegas, Talkie Walkie, and The Richest Man in Babylon

Rain! in the Crystal Court

I was having so much fun doing E Line outreach today that I forgot to take some opening day photos 😭

If you're paying for an ad-free streaming service, there should be a setting to let you automatically skip the promos they insert between episodes. Those are ads too!

this Monday at the gym: every gay stopping to yap about Heated Rivalry

man we really made the jump from light jacket > puffer coat > full parka weather fast

this thanksgiving I am thankful for Rachel Reid and Jacob Tierney

recipe I haven't touched in a year says onions will caramelize in 15 minutes...lol

the number of times I've gone to a DJ set in Minneapolis that bills as house/tech house and ends up being electronic pop remixes...too high!

Kinda don't like when live shows on streaming services like sports have empty, silent ad breaks. Like, why is my home suddenly quiet! I'll take the ads instead.

should I change my display name to "37 across" for the day, or is that a little too niche?

my sourdough starter has been bubbly and very active all week, and now that I want to bake with it today it has decided to play dead! figures!

Rode a lotta buses today! 4 > 6 > 38 > 38 > B > Orange > 5

TikTok keeps showing me clips of the Justice tour and it just makes me want to relive that show again

I was more financially stable as a grad student with part time local government work than as an entry level Senate staffer. Even with the somewhat higher wages now they're still jobs for rich kids or those willing to pile up CC debt for the beans and rice diet.

Wild that this is the same spot! I used to wait for the 114 bus at this stop every morning and it felt like you were practically standing in the freeway on-ramp, and that shelter would somewhat regularly get smashed by car crashes. Now it's so spacious and somewhat calmer!

saw way, way more Team Rocket costumes last night than a typical year

signs of E Line around town really building my nerdy internal excitement!

hearing "doors open on the right at Belmont" would solve my seasonal rut

Can't believe I spent 3 hours in The Gay 90s last night and didn't have a horrible time

Today I baked cinnamon rolls, rewatched one of my favorite movies, listened to the (fantastic) new Tame Impala album, read a good chunk of a romance novel, and burned lots of candles. Quality cozy Sunday!

Today I made chilli and cornbread, and packed away my shorts and sandals. Sad to admit the delightfully long summer is indeed over.

Not sure I can watch House Hunters anymore, too many of the buyers are my age and going gaga over gray LVP. Ashamed of my generation 😣

Midway Airport has got to be the worst airport in the country to get stuck at on a long delay, miserable place.

my phone autocorrects Winnipeg to all-caps because apparently I am scream texting whenever that city comes up

Spotify, why must you insist on repeating eight tracks to death when the playlist is four hours long???

are we calling it The Slot?…https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/its-officially-grand-casino-arena-as-xcel-energy-center-sign-comes-down

inner conflict: I love summer and would have no problem if it never ended, but I also really wanna get back to wearing flannels while making chilli and cinnamon rolls

Should you really be the national leader of a party if you can't resist bad-faith attacks on your party's endorsed candidates?

Just about every modern design manual warns against using shared use paths where high pedestrian volumes are present, really confused how the county arrived at this: nacto.org/publication/...

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

Sunday crossword a bit on the nose while I'm returning from Market Days on an Amtrak train that's been stuck in Milwaukee for two hours

dancing to a like 15-minute mix of French Kiss in smartbar really was a peak experience for a Chicago house fan 🪩

calling in the militia because a script kiddie got decked for being a clueless dumbass at bar close is wild

man the CTA really has a bus bunching problem

Alright big reason the train beats flying: ran into some people on the Borealis that I sorta knew and sat with them. Not being belted in and having space, folks were switching around the whole way socializing, got to know familiar faces better. Can't do that squeezed in like tinned fish!

Amtrak cafe cars should have Biscoff cookies. Long distance travel demands them with ginger ale!

Furthest I've been: N: Winnipeg, MB E: London, UK S: Miami, FL W: San Francisco, CA Need to get some travelling in!

People in jobs like mine rely on an accurate U.S. Census to do things like plan for future roadway and housing needs. Immigrants, regardless of status, use both. It's connected to so many ways government serves the public, absolutely bonkers to screw ourselves this way.

I have a PM2.5 monitor in my apartment for *reasons,* and usually my HVAC and air purifier can keep it at 0.0 µg/m³ unless I'm cooking. For two days now it's been bouncing between 5.0-8.0 µg/m³ because this wildfire smoke is just too much to keep up.

Retired the backpack I've been wearing for 8 years today, the new one is nice but it's a little sad to say goodbye to the longest constant in my daily life!

was too distracted baking and missed the epic storm apart from lightning flashes 😭

a vibe: Lyft driver is blasting Cher's 2001 album Living Proof

At an EDM show at the Skyway Theater (😒) and I think this is the straightest crowd I've ever seen at a music venue in Minneapolis? Like entering a parallel universe

A few years ago HCMC was proposing to cut down 20ish mature shade trees a block down from me to build a 1,000 space parking ramp within walking distance of 4 rapid transit lines. They relocated it (still not great) but it had cleared all its environmental review and land use hurdles!

Kinda surprised it took this long, but finally knocking out my first B Line and Route 38 rides today!

this is for like 3 of my followers, but just broke into the 225 club on squat and feeling super fucking proud of myself 🎉🥰🍑

How many thinkpieces will pollute my feed this week whining about democratic socialists not being DFLers, while ignoring that the Farmer-Labor part of that acronym was a socialist movement?