Today I learned that the local children's hospital hires extra social workers for the ER in May, because it's such a rough month for so many people. Hey! It's not just you!

It’s time.

None of the ADUs in this Seattle Times article are used for housing. One’s a pottery studio. One’s a 2nd kitchen and occasional guest room. One’s a music room. One is for the homeowner’s parents to stay in “several months a year.” It’s like a parody of an article about life here.

I’m in the break room at work and one of the higher ups just saw me and happily said “you didn’t resign!” which makes me think I might have been giving off a bit of a ~mood~ yesterday.

There was an earwig in the newspaper this morning and I accidentally touched it and I think I should be able to call in sick today.

Seattle looking dramatic last night

So lost in this quilt pattern (and my unwise changes to it) that I had to break out the colored pencils to make sure it still makes sense. And also to check for accidental swastikas, a constant quilting problem.

Orange quilt: done! This one put up a fight but in the end I love it.

local.interurbancanopy.news/p/rich-tears... Let’s kill noxious weeds and tax the rich! If you want to tax the rich in Washington state, you should tell your legislators. The Balance Our Tax Code coalition has a handy Take Action page (balanceourtaxcode.com/take-action).

Today my coworker said they needed stitches but they couldn't afford to get them so we set up a lil' station in the staff kitchen and learned how to use hemostatic powder, so, that's how things are going in the US right now.

I’m as mad about ICE as the next person but this is going a bit too far for me

I was supposed to be helping track dolphins but they kept walking away

Sardine packaging, we don’t deserve you

Hotel books

I have a public-facing job that allows me to read at my desk. There's something about seeing me read that makes people want to recommend books to me. Why? I am already reading! My coworker who is doing Wordle on their computer is the one who you should be giving unsolicited book advice.

Nature is healing

Made felt flowers today for a piece that will be part of @mohaiseattle.bsky.social ‘s Day of Remembrance display in Feb. The workshop was a good balance of an interesting talk about local history, and playing with glue guns.

“Shanghai Express” passes the Bechdel Test. And is so good! Genuinely entertaining, which I wasn’t expecting.

Help me, sewingsky. I was given this great pair of snips, and there seems to be a needle (?) stuck in the handle wrap. I presume it comes out but it’s stuck firmly in there like it’s supposed to stay. Should I yank it out? #quilt

A high school principal in East Wenatchee is going to let a high school cop Taser him if attendance rates go up. Oh, the wacky hijinks! And so many valuable lessons to be learned, e.g. Tasers aren’t a big deal, weapons are funny toys, and armed cops in high schools are fine and normal.

The algorithm handed me this at the end of a Billy Joel thread and I found myself trying to figure out which bit of Piano Man it was.

POWWOW HIGHWAY IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE in that there are Christmas decorations in the background in many scenes and everyone ignores them, and also the bad guys are distracted by a Christmas party

me going to bed at night: Do I have my favorite pillow? My weighted blanket? My eye mask? Am I wearing the softest of t-shirts? Is it pitch black? Is the fan running? me taking a nap: Is the surface vaguely horizontal?

My dad, a lifelong atheist, told me that when he joined the army and had to declare a religion he said “Ra, the sun god.” This would have been in the 1950s, back when America was Great 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 I really should see if his official records are somewhere I can look them up. His story might even be true!

Hear, hear. “The Big Dark” sounds so contrived.

Boys’ high school basketball: huge article. Women’s professional hockey, local team wins: wayyy down in the corner.

I cannot do quilt math in my head and am in awe of people who can. This is me figuring out what size I want to make my mushroom quilt. Not shown: the agony of binding yardage. I know calculators exist and yet.

Cute lil’ upside-down mushrooms. Pinewood gingertail, says the Seek app. #fungifriends

Mushroom quilt: finished! This one was an emotional journey, with me alternating liking it and wanting to shove it in a bag and pretend I never started it. Now that it’s done and has crinkled, I’m v pleased.

My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...

I’m normally a bit squeamish about food made in non-commercial places I don’t know well but so far today I’ve eaten a PB cookie made in someone’s house, eggrolls made in a different house, and pumpkin pie made in a church. Goodbye, goodbye

They tried to make us all chant "Let's go Torrent!" but it was definitely half-assed. Quick! Someone smarter than me come up with a better cheer and let's get it out there before the first game. We HAVE to do better than "Let's go Torrent." #SeattleTorrent I guess

Let’s go, Seatte Orren! Seattle Ttoreni? Seattle Ttoren Setorrents? Orteni Torrent? #SeattleTorrent kinda

The true generational divide is old people like me who have coffee mugs they keep at work (usually hideous) and the younger people who use the work-provided disposable ones.

I am not even enjoying this game

Well, this leftover Halloween candy isn't going to eat itself. I hope. That would be terrifying.

Baseball, I love you, but you desperately need some new fan chants. There has to be more than "Let's go (team name)" and "oh oh oh-oh oh ohhhhh ohhhh!"

I don’t usually watch live TV, so I find myself fascinated by the commercials — especially the ad for dehydrated food cooked in a dirty pot. It’s for patriots! Patriots who don’t know what QR codes are!

Salt Lake City knows what it did.

@jimbrunner.bsky.social I'd read your headline today to @olivermoffat.bsky.social in admiration, not realizing it was your piece. Well, I'd shouted it. "DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT AT THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES!!!!"

Ta dah! #fungifriends

One of the best author events I've been to. Scalzi let us vote on if we wanted his reading to be from the novel we had all just bought, or from a new, unpublished, not-even-his-editor-had-read-it-yet book. The man knows how to work a crowd. (I am in this photo but am well hidden.)

One of those kinds of weekends.

Someone left peanut butter cookies in the break room 😊 They are homemade 😀 They have banana flavoring WTF what why noooo wrong bad no

Happy Labor Day to all my fellow nonunionized workers at work today, let’s all just (metaphorically) phone it in

I watched The Panama Deception last night, the 1992 documentary. Music by Sting and Jackson Browne. I remember when everything was either Sting or Jackson Browne, with a touch of Ry Cooder if you need some ‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹ Americana ‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹

I turned on “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” last night expecting to watch maybe half an hour, but I got sucked in and watched it all. Tense! Funny! Great 1970s clothes! Ancient subway technology! Not actually racist! Recommended.

I’ll be peacefully reading Bluesky when it suddenly jumps to the top of my feed. As far as I can tell I’m not accidentally touching the screen. Is this a setting I’ve missed?