i have a big birthday this summer (50!) and the more i think about it the more i want a new noodle for my birthday. of course greyhound adoption doesn't work on a schedule like that but every time i think about the idea, it makes me happy. yes we could travel or throw a big party, or... NOODLE!

Doc is putting me on 8 weeks of protonix (pantoprazole) which is a prescription PPI/ulcer med. My diet changes have already helped so I suspect this will be enough to let everything heal but if not, it’s endoscopy time.

Somehow this is going to end up with CTA having to add decals to all bus shelters at tax/fare payer expense

engagement bait, but the answer is alt-tab. being able to switch back and forth from application to application or browser window to browser window quickly and easily, when planning a trip or researching a large purchase? no way i can do that without losing my mind on a phone.

somehow it's actually worse that it crashed into the glass from *inside* the shelter.

We’ve determined that Milton hates the donut slightly less than the shirt. With the shirt on, he is listless and hides and sleeps all day. With the donut, he’s active and chirpy and stares at us with hatred in his eyes. We’ll take it.

HUGE NEWS. We have a state bill; SB3478 - SCA1. Under the bill, CMAP will develop a blueprint for a bike and pedestrian-prioritized street network including 450 miles of safe, slow streets in Chicago and surrounding communities. WE NEED YOU TO SUBMIT WITNESS SLIPS. ilga.gov/Senate/heari... (1/3)

In the interest of managing stress I am not going to keep arguing with someone who was being a dick to/about my friends and is questioning my bike knowledge (LOL, iykyk) and am just going to block them.

If you’re wondering how stress can impact health, just look at me: sick for 3 weeks in January, acid reflux flare from hell since mid February, and now I’m sick again!

Milton hates shirts/cones/donuts so much that I keep thinking he’s dying but actually it’s just that he’s mad. He got the shirt off overnight and N said when he came downstairs Milton was all happy and perky and purring. I feel terrible but he can’t mess with the stitches at the biopsy sites.

Hey y’all the “i bought properties in the metaverse” post is probably satire. (It’s cut off in the screenshot, and the poster is known for posting other satire.) Also i thought we agreed that screenshotting from the hellsite just to quote dunk was stupid?

i know i sound like a hot mess lately and that’s because i am, but it really sucks that for acid reflux you’re supposed to chew your food a lot but i am in a stage in my Invisalign process where my teeth don’t line up properly which makes chewing hella annoying.

We thought Milton was dying last night and were strategizing getting him to the vet to say goodbye. Woke up this morning and he was like “hey, what’s up” and has been eating like a champ and being his normal silly self. Inspected the groceries which is normally Marv’s job.

The city put new, smaller and better locking food scrap bins at the drop off site near me. I wonder if these are for the warmer weather and will coincide with more frequent pickups? TBH I don’t know how often they have been picking up.

🚨🚨🚨 there is a PINK/PURPLE KEI TRUCK on my street!!! 🚨🚨🚨

going for a run when I’m in the worst acid reflux flare of my life and I woke up at 3am and couldn’t get back to sleep was a complete fail. but I still got some time in this beautiful spring sun.

All I wanted to do was nap, but right as I settled down and started dozing (sitting up, thanks GERD) the other human in the house got up and started doing things. Now he’s out of the house and it’s quiet but I lost the sleepiness wave. Despite waking up at 3:30am and not getting back to sleep.

I was worried it would take forever with all the chaos and partially shut down government, but I submitted my online passport renewal on 3/7 and new passport arrived in the mail today.

i swear that the grammar suggestions in word have gotten worse to the point of being incorrect. i assume they are now using copilot instead of a standard set of grammar rules to do the little underline thing and that's why. and style-wise, the suggestions are also terrible (so, many, commas,!)

saw an absolute mint very old Corolla this morning and thought of @sorenspicknall.bsky.social even though it was not a mature Camry. not a car guy so I couldn’t tell you what year but there was not a single curve on that thing. boxy and beautiful.

poor Milton is ZOOTED from the drugs from his skin biopsy today. he is stumbly and wobbly and totally out of it. unfortunately he’s more of a pace around the house guy when he’s coming off drugs. i would prefer he pick a spot to sleep it off but we’ve been home 2 hours and so far nope.

I’m at a mall, the Cure is playing, skinny sunglasses are back, and there are Nirvana and Sublime tshirts and baby tees for sale. What year is it?

i’ve had such bad acid reflux lately despite taking 2 kinds of OTC meds that i just booked a doctor appt about it. it’s so bad this morning that i just took pepcid ac only 2 hours after my thyroid meds even though you’re supposed to wait 4. going to the gym seems to have made it worse.

Kaegi lost for the same reason Trump won. A bunch of voters said "I'm mad" and pulled the lever for the other guy. For Kaegi it's "I'm mad my tax bill went up" + little understanding of a complex system involving several players/agencies and confusing requirements. It sucks but I saw it coming.🫤

So: the next big fight in Chicago is against real estate fucks. Brace yourselves to vote every one of these pricks out in the next cycle. Tell your friends

I am finally muting certain names and the number of a congressional district I don't even live in. After the election! I just can't take any more takes from ANYONE about it.

I really don’t want to work today but looks like Dottie has it handled.

Pretty sure these two older dudes talking on the bus (one black, one white, pretty sure are strangers) are solving racism single-handedly. I love public transit!

one of my favorite little things we do at work is we use the ♾️ emoji in the name of all segments in hubspot that are active (constantly updated by data from our database). it's incredibly useful, you can even search by the emoji, and it's so simple.

i can't take any lake forever photos from work until the aon center cleans the windows. my phone REFUSES to focus on anything but the dirt on the window 😆

PLEASE y'all, file witness slips in opposition of this ILGA bill that would require OPERATING SYSTEM-LEVEL AGE VERIFICATION. This is a bad bill on privacy and a bad bill on rights and a technical nightmare with terrible implications. There is no implementation of this that would be good.

Hail in Belmont Cragin!

These used to be solid green. Might have to switch back to white curtains for the sunroom! (Yes I’m ironing curtains and no I’m not happy about it but they are way too wrinkled fresh out of the dryer.)

It’s snowing.

i love my team and they are beyond capacity so i am understanding that things get missed but DAMMIT we created an "email category" property to be applied to every marketing email we sent, and now we're trying to investigate falling open rates and they haven't been doing it.

iOS 26 is bad enough with the Liquid Glass bullshit but it also broke so much functionality. I had to switch the voicemails and phone stuff to “classic view” because voicemails I watched come in were literally not showing up! I never used to hate my phone ☹️

It’s weird to put on an album for the commute home that’s one you listened to walking to/from classes in undergrad 30 years ago. Still feels like a good cool girl walking album!

sometimes the linkedin job email alerts are a hard no.

lake forever problems for now

you could say that AFHV is a form of cinéma vérité

the smug face of a cat whose creatinine has dropped to 3.1 🎉(from a high of 8+ before surgery and 4.9 the week after surgery)

oh fun, it's sleeting

ahhhh our greyhound group has 6 new noodles from WV that need foster homes and i want one so bad but the time still isn't right

In most ways both of my dogs dying has ruined my mental health but one way it has improved is I don’t start every day seething about asshole drivers nearly killing us on our morning walk.

Incredible radar presentation on this Kankakee County tornado, textbook's textbook #ilwx

Watching local news and these storms are scary. Bad bad tornado confirmed crossed Kankakee Co and is into Indiana now. I’m nervous about the line of cells headed right for Chicago. I have too many skylights for this much hail 😫

finally blocked the weird chicago cyclist account that always kinda annoyed me because they are crashing out about the overflow action day.

Overflow Action Day Alert: Heavy rain is expected in the Chicago area today. Reduce your use of water during and after the storm to help prevent flooding and protect water quality: * Delay showers and baths * Flush less frequently * Wait to run the dishwasher or washing machine

please tell me he hurt himself doing that workout thing with kid rock