More bullshit going down at work this week that made me spend legitimate time over the weekend updating my resume. I’ve finally hit the quiet quitting part of it all which gives me *some* catharsis even if I’m unsure what the next step is.

This movie’s incredible

Pink Narcissus is just Tom of Finland set in Fantasia

Lately I’ve been thinking about how technology has made our lives easier but is also largely responsible for the hellscape we live in and I don’t know how to reconcile those two things without being overly nihilistic or becoming a Luddite.

Welcome to Derry ripping my fucking heart out

That’s a long time to be milking Santa

If I have to know this, so do you.

Dug out all my rain gear that I used to wear when I biked to work on a daily basis. I’m not fucking around with this latest atmospheric river rolling through the area.

Went for a quick jaunt today in the neighborhood.

I shouldn’t have had beer on an empty stomach but here I am 🥴

I’m in a surprisingly good mood for someone going into work today just to work on a monthly report. Probably helps I’m going downtown afterwards and hitting up all my usual spots and then doing more housing shit in WoW. Nice to have things to look forward to.

Went to the Portland Camera Club zine happy hour tonight and had a good time. It was neat to see everyone’s zine’s and learn about the resources in Portland for self-publishing.

My industry is weird. My job really is just how to produce legally defensible reports from questionably sampled materials. We micromanage on the lab side just so crusty chuck can throw 5 samples in a bag and act surprised when we tell him cross contamination is a thing.

I do not have a large enough umbrella for this sort of rain

I’m very excited to get home and give WoW housing a try.

Love when my bus shows up 7 minutes ahead of schedule and now I have a 20 minute wait for my next one

Mondays

I don’t know what I just watched

It really is weird to me how all the straight guys in our building that we see are friendlier towards me and David than any of the gays (with one exception).

I love my new uncut sweater

I can’t help but feel like Heated Rivalry is the much more adult version of Yuri on Ice and I’m loving it

Sometimes David and I will be on the apps at the same time and he’ll show me someone he thinks is cute and I’ll quickly reach over and hit the woof button

I don’t know what changes Blizz made to Delves, but they’re so much quicker now. I liked them when they first launched but they sometimes felt tedious. And Brann feels more tanky. Good changes all around.

It’s a jock strap Thanksgiving for me

I’ve never had to work so hard for a long holiday weekend like I’ve had to for this one. Just one more day of “we need this now” nonsense and I can finally relax.

Our timeline is like if Black Mirror and 30 Rock had a baby.

It’ll be a miracle if me and my staff aren’t if we’d be willing to come in over the long weekend to continue working all in the name of reaching net sales goals

I was thinking about photography projects for next year and realized that I've pretty much had an on-going one of the Tilikum with as many pictures as I take while crossing it.

Making a pot roast for my staff for Thanksgiving week at the lab because the short work week is always a shit show with how contractors wait until the last minute to get their testing done.

If you ever get offended at my opinions on media just know that two of my favorite movies are The Eternals and Warcraft so my movie opinions should never be taken seriously.

Predator Badlands felt like it was meant to slot into the MCU.

Who knew following the Gun Oil IG account would provide so much drama

Terrible work week ending with my favorite yearly tradition: turkey gravy with a wild turkey rye whiskey shot.

Almost every morning I watch the dance on Division between trimet buses, food delivery trucks, garbage trucks, and street maintenance crews and think about how the city didn’t really think through the infrastructure necessary to support high density mixed use neighborhoods.

Finally made it to Friday but at what cost

Ran across a pop up downtown for the PDX Camera Club and had a good chat with the guy running it. He was talking about some community events they’re hosting which sounded interesting but I’m always wary of getting involved in community stuff because of the way I make it my entire personality,

Ya’ll I don’t have enough scrabble pieces to constantly be decoding words from overused asterisks in your posts

Bugonia was an experience

I'm already planning out my photography project for next year, but I might have to try and fit in neon signs at some point, too.

Just finished watching Bones and All. It was a little long but holy shit was it beautiful.

I’ll show you something else that’s naturally red on the inside

Dug up my 20 year old iPod nano. Got about three minutes of music out of it before battery died.

An interesting (and welcome!) side effect of getting into photography is that movies are much more interesting to me and I don’t stare at my phone while walking anymore

Getting myself a dangly earring for a little extra homosexuality to my outfits

Decided to take the camera out on Ziggy's morning walk, but with the 55-200mm lens instead of my usual 35mm prime. I typically don't use that lens so most of my photos came out ✨terrible✨. Anyways, shooting critters is hard, but getting a good photograph of David and Ziggy not so bad.

I cleaned the bathroom mirror please clap

The combination of the time change and change in weather is hitting me hard.

Settled in to play some FFXIV only to get dc’d due to yet *another* DDoS so I played Legion Remix instead and I might be going down the WoW rabbit hole again

Sometimes this is the best timeline for all the wrong reasons.

Yes Reddit that is the hope