Husband (who is basically allergic to yard work) comes running up the stairs, “look out the window! [neighbor] is weeding with a flame thrower! That’s so cool!” Yesterday: “did you know [neighbor] has a roomba lawnmower??” Do we just need better gadgets? 😂

All you Panicans saying the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz, didn’t even bother to check its hours of operation.

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Featuring the “moat”in my front yard with a peak of Mt. Rainier in the background.

I am seriously struggling to get anything done. I hate phases like this. I just want to sit on my couch and look out the window. Too bad I don’t get paid to do that.

Why are front doors so expensive? I got a quote today that was $5000!

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

Righteous indignation post: I just learned that my (?) step-SIL (FIL's wife's daughter) left the church & her entire family (parents incl.) have cut her off. Why do people do this? How can they possibly think this helps? And!!! Her mom is a therapist for LDS family services! IRONY. I'm so mad.

I can attest to them being absolutely terrible for municipal code finding/analysis and it’s getting harder to find the actual real info via an old-fashioned google search. Sometimes I long for paper code books.

To be chosen by a cat is a surprisingly touching thing. They choose so carefully. It is such an honor.

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Just got some horrible news and it’s not my story to tell, but folks: just let trans people exist the way they want to! Just let them live their lives in peace! Why is this so hard? I’m so angry at the world about this right now. It’s not a hard concept to grasp, it should not be such a struggle.

Can’t wait for when this all gets investigated as insider trading on top of war crimes. Oh wait! We have a congress full of cowards and we don’t participate in the ICC.

What if the United States had a Congress?

I’m in Canada for the next couple days and it’s such a weird relief.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Umm. Can I admit that I laughed out loud?? kutv.com/news/local/m...

My son took this video and while yes the cat is adorable, I was struck at how gorgeous this little section of our yard is.

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Your annual reminder since Easter is near that lilies are extremely poisonous to cats. Even contact with just a little of that pollen dust they leave or the water they are in can be very very harmful.

Look at my new lil beauty! I’ve wanted one of these for years. #treatyoself

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Body doubling tonight for the ADHD kiddo and 🥱. Wake up is going to come way too early.

This photo has haunted me for a whole day now. These are real people with lives and homes and pets and fears.

Amazing.

IYKYK. 😂

People who love data and sharing data are so very charming.

I was at a city council meeting a couple weeks ago & FIFA was discussed. They brought in a guy who heads up the tourism organization for the area. The lack of tourism for FIFA is pretty astounding & ICE in airports will not help. There is virtually no increase in tourism expected in this area.

FAFSA is like, "I see your parents usually get two toppings on their pizza. You must not need any aid."

Pet peeve as a small business owner: It is hard running your own business, and it’s expensive. When friends/family ask you to work for them, wanting you to give them a discount is an incredibly selfish thing. If they care about you, they should know this is your survival. 1/

Who buys this??

I heard Jagged Little Pill in the hardware store today and was instantly transported back to 1996. Then I went home and listened to it and I'm going to say only about 1/3 of it was as good as I remembered. The rest = very mediocre.

I got my first “I asked chatGPT” email from a client today.

The kitchen countertop and backsplash are finally installed! Wahoo! This kitchen has been under some level of chaos since September. It feels so good to know that’s in the past and I finally have a little bit of MCM vibes going on. I will post a before in the comments.

Is there a coffee drink that is not bitter? I have no real desire to become a coffee drinker, but I do live in Seattle, and I do find myself socially at coffee shops, and it would be nice to have some sort of coffee drink I could tolerate.

Thanks to this absolutely stupid munipical code, my client is begging me to put knee braces on a contemporary house with hip roof lines. I can’t do it! It’s blasphemy! Why doesn’t she like my window boxes?? They are at least benign. She also wants to 86 the planter boxes. This is making me sad.

Watching Flipper with my youngest because it’s truly the most amazing show and I’m looking at this guest actor playing a young vagabond and realize it is none other than Martin Sheen.

I’m a day late celebrating Pi Day, but my kids insisted and traditions are sacred. Apple, mixed berry, and meat pies.

Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term

Thanks to an anal retentive plan reviewer, I am spending my Friday afternoon reading an article called "Mastering Mini Split Condensate: Best Practices."

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

I just sat through a city council meeting where they debated for like 20 mins whether it was prudent to spend $10k installing anchoring hooks into the concrete of a new plaza being built so someday they could put up a Christmas tree.

Why did getting a mammogram just totally bum me out? Very unexpected reaction.

I just got plan review comments back from what is quickly becoming my least favorite jurisdiction and this is an insane thing for a city to require because - as I have found myself saying frequently lately - a city is not an HOA.

Trump is bringing infrastructure week to Iran. by Marc Thiessen

Political suicide right there.

I am doing a job in which no cats are required.

Just a reminder for everyone wanting war crimes prosecuted in The Hague, the US isn’t part of the Rome Statute because it was never ratified by Congress. Similar situation in Israel. Doubtful any of these ppl will be held accountable and they know it. www.coalitionfortheicc.org/country/unit...

Squeaking in a caturday photo.