Ready for this bike commute (?) 🥵 (Helmet etc are downstairs with the bike)

I am *very* lucky to be able to shower at work after my bike commute. Today it was a cold shower.

my partner’s boss is using the book Nudge as a reason to send too many emails to their customers, and I immediately sqid “I think there’s a @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode about that book!” and am now insisting he listens to it. (It’s actually a 2-parter, RIP to N, who is not a podcast guy)

i was born in 76 so obvs i don't remember it personally but my parents spent my childhood calling me a "bicentennial baby" 🇺🇸👶

idk why i did this to myself but i was feeling vaguely sad that i was having a hard time picturing frank's face with clarity so i looked up videos of him and started bawling.

the final score for the white Sox game lol

Why are you even challenging shit when you’re up 17-1 guys

I don't want to track my food to the point of weighing and measuring things. but it's rude that my acid reflux app is (I think) undercounting my fiber intake. I want credit for how much fiber I eat, dammit! 😆💩

my muted words must be working overtime because I'm seeing something about shrimp but have no idea what people are talking about. also, possibly related or not, culver's? anyway coincidentally I made shrimp tacos for dinner tonight.

you’d think I would learn to put my clean folded laundry away immediately on the other hand Marv looks very pleased with himself.

"Have I ever been to 90% of the United States?" Let's see, I've lived in a suburb of Buffalo where half my school bus ride was through farmland, a small very hilly college town, Houston TX (city proper and a suburb), Grand Junction CO, Austin TX, Charleston WV, and Chicago.

I felt like complete ass this morning (exhaustion and brain fog, didn’t sleep well) so I didn’t go to the gym but now I feel slightly better and feel stupid for not going. But possibly the reason I feel better is because I rested! Brains are dumb.

really curious how my work email ended up on this list lol

Lake forever problems for now (from a different window in my office building)

Stubbornly went on our post dinner walk and got caught in the rain 😅

i really hate how it feels like i am completely hampered from being able to do my job effectively at, like, every turn

LOLLLLL love when our chaos agent president does something that actually impacts my day job

Green line from a sox game is the move

If you’re watching the Sox game on tv look for me on the third base line just a bit past the ball boy 😆

I understand per @nikhunder.bsky.social's post that this is part of the plan from last year but the timing is a gut punch so soon after Riley's death. I can't imagine his colleagues at CDOT are happy to be doing it. I also think it's ok to be mad about it all over again even if it's not new.

at least i know my peers want me involved in their projects, even if my superiors have no interest in showing they value my contributions 🙃

I “didn’t have time” to make overnight oats yesterday, but tonight at 8:40pm I suddenly decided to make them and I was completely done including hand washing all of the dishes by 8:55.

I’m back at work for the first time since June 9, pray for me

This graphic, oh my god.

the exit of the jewel (/Petsmart, Marshalls, etc) parking lot has contradictory signage and striping.

the person in the UK who thinks my email address is her email address is going camping this week. I'm happy for her, I just hope she doesn't need her confirmation number or any of the information about check in and check out times and that you should def make a reservation at the restaurant.

Accidentally hit the Teams app on my phone and I closed that out so fast. You can’t take this last 24hrs of freedom from me!

the gym was hella busy this morning so I had to use my less preferred equipment (every goddamn bench was taken and there was a HIIT class going on so no free weight upper body for me) and I irritated my ulnar nerve 😡

to continue my "drivers suck" rant, gas is still too cheap when I pass three people sitting in their idling cars just on half of my city block.

love it when a driver slows down at a four way stop but doesn't see/yield to me on a bike; i had stopped and it was my turn to go. love that it was at long and waveland, where Joshua Anleu was killed, and there's a ghost bike right there. and i was wearing my @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social shirt.

Visited my friend recovering from back surgery today and we took a nice gentle walk. Ended up in Rosehill Cemetery and saw a deer!

I aborted a very elaborate from-scratch dinner midway through (saving what was completed so I can finish it tomorrow) and ordered from our local Thai place instead.

it's 'pull up the McCook TARP Reservoir Live Stream' weather

I really want the ice cream that is in my freezer but between the hassle of taking out the Invisalign and re-brushing my teeth after and the “you shouldn’t eat before bed” reflux rule, I can’t. So I sit here, sad about ice cream.

one of Milton's bionic ureters is already partially blocked. ☹️they can't risk trying to flush it out (he was there for a planned flush) because the pressure could cause it to come out of his bladder. the vet thinks his natural ureter is still partially flowing, so the flow in the bionic one is low

the funny thing is one reason I don’t sew more often is because every time I do it’s like an hour of relearning my machine and fixing something that isn’t working right before even starting, but if I sewed more often that wouldn’t be (as much of) an issue!

living an 8 minute bike ride from the Singer store makes it really convenient when i want to hem some new pants and need matching thread and new bobbins. it's really a shame i don't sew more.

Ahhhh riding your bike to and from a show when the weather is this perfect is >>>>>> Especially when part of the ride is the entire 606 end to end

Well the weather sure cleared up nicely for this concert. Perfect weather to bike here too.

Hey BikeSky, thoughts on waxed chains? I need to replace the chain on my cyclocross bike and I have an old instant pot and am intrigued based on what I've read

sometimes a cheap, like, breyer's or store brand vanilla ice cream where it's fluffy and soft because they whipped so much air into it, really hits the spot give me the carrageenan i guess

i did just wash my makeup brushes which always seems like this huge task in my mind and then takes… 4 minutes.

don’t read the latest anti bike lane thread don’t read the latest anti bike lane thread don’t read the latest anti bike lane thread

everyone is saying this is LCD Soundsystem-ish but my first thought was Getdown Services!

RDL PR. unfortunately the weight of the bar on this machine could be anywhere from 35-44lbs so I don’t know exactly how much I lifted but it’s between 105-114? My goal was to break 100 so I’ll call it a win 💪 Yes I know that’s not particularly impressive but I’m an old lady.

as a tiny fingered opal lover, @peculiarityshop.bsky.social is doing some serious violence to me tonight.

They postponed the concert to Aug 20! I’m so glad we didn’t start making our way down there.

I think it’s criminal they aren’t canceling the jimmy eat world concert. We’re eating our tickets and not going; I have no interest in going all the way downtown only to be told to take shelter once the lightning starts and being jammed into a subway station with thousands and no airflow

Carrot continues to be the best weather app and worth paying for. They just updated and added a multi-model forecast and now they bring in the NWS area forecast discussion and storm prediction center. This post brought to you by wondering if the concert tonight will get cancelled 😞

White Sox!