Started my YouTube mix with the new Dk and seungkwan Die With a Smile cover, and the algorithm decided that must mean I want SVT's entire catalog. It's not wrong, but I am too emotionally compromised today to handle Circles like a normal person. 😭

Idiot co-worker is in particularly fine form today...

Hot cocoa + mint medley tea = mmmmmmmmmm

Spotted outside of Safeway...

please look at my dumb baby.

Friends, I want you to know that Kibum wants EVERYONE to know that it is him in the clown meme! (there were two people in clown cosplay at the show and he was like, "my clown picture is very famous, but no one knows it's me!! not a professional clown. Me! I wanted to win first place for halloween."

OMG, IT IS KEY DAY!!!! NEVER HAS MY PFP BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE

Day 3 of eating Korean Fried Chicken, because there is a place here that has a "10 piece" that is like 3 full pounds of chicken, and by god, I am not going to let any of it go to waste.

I've been listening to "Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America." A lot of the base "MLMs are scams" side is stuff I already knew from other sources, but this one goes deep into "not just scam, but also massive conservative political manipulation schemes" stuff.

Ugh. I have to go backup my Boundless app ebook/audiobook wishlist, because it's going away this week (because of the closure of Baker & Taylor). Like, yeah. Libby is my primary library app with 500+ items on my wishlist, but boundless has another 100.

Kicking off my day-late start to #MusicAdvent with my K-Pop ult guys Ateez - Answer. It's not the song that first got my attention (that was The Real), but it is the one that scratches my brain the best and will probably forever be my #1 song of theirs. youtu.be/yW7wZX3DUaY?...

Playing this game with lead actors is a fool's errand. Your winning move is with a prolific supporting character actor. That just leaves me torn between Keith David and Stephen Tobolowsky.

This week I re-read three Good Housekeeping articles from the early 90s that had stuck with me for 30+ years after reading them. And then I started just click around 100+ year old issues out of curiosity. Anyway, public libraries and digital periodical collections are great

Decided to get in on the love this year... gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

Oh, I like this one. 5 animals i've seen in the wild: 1. So many deer 2. Black bears foraging at a landfill 3. Great blue heron 4. A pod of dolphins 5. A very confused gopher who emerged from his burrow in the middle of a John Prine concert in Golden Gate park.

Thanksgiving with friends: A+++++ Day after Thanksgiving sitting on the couch watching die hard and (eventually) writing: ALSO A+++++

WIPWednesday... and my plan for the holiday weekend.

Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951) Muppet Family Christmas

many, many nights I seed the youtube mix with kpop. Tonight I seeded the mix with a very, very baby Beegees performance of Blowing in the wind. The results have been FASCINATING.

Listening to Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America (2012)... and let me tell you this section on enron's "fictitious transactions" doesn't resonate with anything going on in today's economy, nope. nothing at all.

He's in training... (one of these days i'll catch him in the full extended sprint, but it's hard because he largely runs to get attention, so as soon as I turn to watch him, he stops)

TAEMIN GOODIES!!! thank you so much @vixxsofa.bsky.social

Wheeeeeeee! (I think it's going to be about 3k, and it may even be finished over the holiday weekend??? if I don't talk myself out of liking the very, very silly idea)

I haven't had a career path. I've had a career meander.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Whoops. started a new Google doc tonight. it's a very silly riff on a trope that absolutely cannot be dragged out beyond like mayyyyybe 6k words even if i try to stretch it to its limit. So who knows, there might be a shot of me finishing something. maybe even before the end of the year?

Ranted about this to my father last night: As long as there is a chance that I'm going to wind up separated from most of my belongings and sleeping on the floor of the airport, I'm not wearing hard pants. I'll be clean, but by god, I will be comfy.

I seriously can't get over how good the David Byrne show was last night. Like, I've known he puts together concerts that are art... but seeing it in person was something else. I was so afraid I was gonna struggle to enjoy the show, because I've been so stressed. It was perfect.

Mark the date: I have closed the office window and made my first cup of mint tea. Winter (San Francisco version) is here.

Sad to report that The Amusement Park NOT scratching my brain the right way at the moment. It's not bad, and I will probably return to it some other time, possibly not as audio book, but for now it goes back in circulation for someone else. And I go back to the drawing board.

Ok, a tentative selection has been made.

I've been on board for our cephalopod overlords for well over a two decades. Bring it on.

A library to-read list of 500+ books and a tendency toward decision paralysis is a truly unfortunate combination...

Every day my decision to avoid "AI tools" as much as possible is validated.

So, a boss at a previous job gave me an "oracle" book for Christmas one year. I don't turn to it for actual guidance, but I do occasionally flip it open to a random page and laugh at the platitude. But... today? DON'T FUCKING PATRONIZE ME, YOU HUNK OF CELLULOSE.

my apologies to which ever staffer get stuck logging the incoherent "do not cede an inch" message i just left my senator. I at least didn't call anybody a useless sack of of shit. (saved that for calling my dad to tell him to call HIS useless sack of shit senator).

what if... stick with me now, instead of endlessly scrolling 4-5 social media platforms, I use my Sunday to write? or even to read? what a fucking novel idea. Might just try it.

visited some friends

make it out of car service for under $600 challenge: failed. I spend entirely too much on a car I put fewer than 3k miles per year on. But my brain keeps "what if..."-ing every time I think about selling it.

New enemy: Man in this Toyota service center waiting room watching very annoying videos on his phone with volume up and no headphones.

oh, I am SO CHARMED by hongjoong's children's fashion show...

the "fall into a weird semi-sleep, then wake up after 90 minutes and be unable to actually fall asleep again" insomnia has returned and I would like to lodge a complaint.

Oh, this isn't going to be a "the book" situation. This is going to be "a whole new cutter number in library of congress cataloging." And I will read them all. (To everyone saying Michael Lewis, please remember he was taken in by SBF's grift and should no longer be taken seriously in such matters)

Nothing screams "we're definitely not a grift built on a foundation of bullshit and fairy dust" like requesting a pre-emptive government bailout promise....

Sometimes the answer to a perfect dinner really is "toss fish sticks and French fries into the air fryer for 10 minutes"

I am having a Streets of Fire renaissance... youtu.be/251zlGliwOQ?...

Woke up for no reason at 5 a.m., decided to check my phone to see the fresh horrors.... saw Dick Cheney is dead. Went back to sleep with a smile on my face.

I know it's not actually a big deal in the grand scheme of the world, but APA's reference list format and the lack of capitalizing titles of anything except periodicals MIGHT be a significant part of my villain origin story. (This has been true for more than 20 years. But it always bears repeating).

I wrote words today. Unfortunately it was all boring technical documentation for work. But I inch ever closer to being a normal human being again. So close. I am like 87.3 percent sure that that's the actual light at the end of the tunnel I see, not the light of an oncoming train.