i think i’m finally coming down from crisis mode of the last 3 days and realizing i haven’t grieved yet. no he’s not gone but other than choking back tears at the first X-ray and crying over what happened last night i haven’t had an outright sobbing session yet. it’s coming, i can feel it.

Frank’s leg has gone from not even a detectable limp and “do you think that ankle is bigger than the other?” on Wednesday to definitely limping and a large and obvious lump today. I’m so sad, it feels like this is moving faster than even a palliative treatment plan can get going.

It's critical that there is differentiation between e-bikes and e-motos in conversations about regulation. They are not the same and should not be treated the same. This article provides a fantastic overview of the differences: archive.ph/paiO8

Oh my fucking god, just talked to my greyhound vet and she thinks they gave him hydromorphone which is a 100% do not give to greyhounds med. He could have spiked a fever and died. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Frank and I had a very rough night (he did not recover well from the pain/sedation they gave him to do a needle scrape cytology at the oncologist). He seems ok this morning but spent all night alternating between 1-2 hours of rest and bouts of extremely anxious whining and pacing.

I just took Frank for a walk and it's beautiful out!

be nice to your vet team because if they like you they will come through for you when you most need it! i reached out to frank's internal medicine team and they got him an appointment for TODAY with oncology. may not change anything but glad to have specialist advice as we navigate this.

on top of everything else, launch of the new CRM went disastrously and although the initial errors have been fixed, dupe accounts are being created like mad. (old system used ID# as login, this one uses email. if you don't use the email we have on file, you create a new account.)

not a great time of year to need an ASAP veterinary specialist appointment. can't find an oncologist in the greater chicagoland area with any availability in the next 4 weeks. the oncologist at the nearest specialty center (not even our first choice clinic) is on vacation from the 11th to the 28th.

our greyhound vet wants us to rule out fungal infection because 1. Frank doesn’t come from the lines of greyhounds known to have the cancer gene (the good thing about retired racers is we know a lot about their lineage) and 2. the (likely) osteosarcoma is in a weird spot where she’s never seen it.

sorry for the vague posting, i was waiting for the radiologist's findings. frank has osteosarcoma. we are devastated.

X-rays show the worst possible news. How can this be happening???

because work being an absolute cluster this week isn't enough, Frank has a sore/swollen ankle so i guess we're going to the vet today.

How I'm trying to be this winter

all that work to manually import the data over the last few days and we turned on the sync and it duplicated everything. making us blow past our custom object record limit in hubspot. lol. it’s been a day!

love to lose 30 minutes to an earlier go-live than i'd anticipated, about 5 minutes before noticing that one of the import spreadsheets i was given was missing the property that we use to build object-contact relationships lololol (it's fine, I have... 45 minutes to fix)

I have looked at the Basecamp for this CRM project with the vendor and I somewhat forgive my PM because shit is still fuuuucked up for launching today, well beyond my little HubSpot issues. (Also feeling better with 3 of 6 objects imported with minimal errors and records properly associating.)

Love to be still sitting at my desk 11 hours after I started my workday waiting for the first import file of 200k rows to finish processing. It’s dark out and I’m tired of looking at spreadsheets and I just want to sleeeeeep

my head might explode from rage. 1 day until we "go live" on the new CRM. i went from expecting the integration to handle the sync w HubSpot to being expected to manually upload the initial data due to API limits. i received the first file for data upload from data architect at 11:30am.

Relatedly, if you feel the need to tell trans people of the interesting academic argument behind blah blah blah, then may I say, go fuck yourself. This is 2025, and they are fighting against people who are QUITE FUCKING LITERALLY saying they should not be allowed to teach in universities...

tiramisu overnight oats? a winner!

As if the universe knew I needed a little reward for completing this, my coworker just sent pics and a video of a tiny puppy she visited at One Tail at a Time this weekend.

I don't want to be a Complaining About Workplace Harassment Training Guy, and I know why it's not an option (to meet length requirements in regulations), but not being able to speed up these slow-ass trainings makes it so hard to pay attention. I can read so much faster than the narration!

Poor greyhound legs and feet are not really made for snowy icy winters. (The raw spots are shiny because I just applied pet-safe balm to his paw pads and on the ouchies)

All of the cheap landlord grade appliances that came (new) with this house 6 years ago are dying on us.

I have this weird brain quirk — when I’m in the middle of a book all I want to do is read but when I’m done my brain resists starting a new one? It’s strange. I was planning to read all weekend but didn’t read at all yesterday or most of today, until I pushed through and finally started one.

One of the block Dads just busted out the snowblower and plowed the whole block ❄️

What’s the point of having a partner with a degree + experience in theatre lighting design if he only says “whatever makes you happy” when you ask for opinions on where to put the Christmas lights? 😆

I don’t want to seem ungrateful but it could be snowing harder

As someone whose alma mater also capitulated to the trump administration, I am sorry to Northwestern alumni, staff, faculty, and students. It’s infuriating and especially so when the admin is at its weakest.

INPRNT and Threadless shops are both on sale. Friday ain't gonna black itself.

I cannot be trusted to go grocery shopping directly from the gym.

Forced myself to go to the gym. Rewarded myself by forgetting to bring my headphones. 😭😭😭😭

Happy Thanksgiving from Frank!

Oiled the butcher block top of a cabinet and Dottie immediately jumps on it and starts licking it 😆

If you are making butternut squash for the first time, and find your hands start peeling aggressively, dont panic. You are having an allergic reaction that will look insane for hours but revert to normal eventually

BTW the Paprika recipe downloader gets around the Good Housekeeping paywall 👀

You can tell the readers of chicago are on vacation because the number of my library ebook holds that have suddenly become available this week… 😆

I don’t doubt that librarians do this because libraries are amazing but the lettering in this image is giving AI vibes

You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)

I would be lost about the Paprika recipe app (which has a browser and will save a local download of the recipe, or you can manually transcribe them)

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I LOVE THEM AND THEIR FLUFFY FEETS

Tattoos ought to be HSA/FSA eligible as mental health expenses.

Frank slept in the bedroom with us all night for the first time since Roxy died 💕💕😭💕💕

No joke this actually should be illegal (Google Maps suggesting this, that is. If someone is a Brain Genius and figures it out on their own good for them, but the volume of traffic these residential side streets get because of Google/Waze is awful.)

Frank slept in the bedroom with us all night for the first time since Roxy died 💕💕😭💕💕

If you told me that I would become a ‘nails always on point’ girl I would have laughed in your face, bc my natural nails are weak, bendy, peely nightmares. Yet here I am four years later thanks to @jenawithonen.bsky.social. It’s been so fun sitting in her chair and watching her talent grow!

Four years of doing @karenkaz.com 's nails tonight! 11/23/21 (a little-wonky looking gel-x set that popped off pretty much immediately) --- 11/24/25 (her natural nails lookin very Xmas ready). Love that this is my job. Thanks, Karen! 🥰

The SW side needs support from #bikechi CDOT and Ald. Ramirez (12) are hosting a virtual info session and Q&A for updates on the Archer Ave and Kedzie Ave PBLs in construction in Brighton Park. Tues. 11/25, 6-8pm More: bit.ly/archerkedzie Register by Sat., 11/22 at 7pm: forms.gle/yJMa3cFU8ftN...