What stupid thing is wrong with me now? Somehow I strained my quad muscle?! It hurts so much I wanna throw up, but it's still better than throwing my back out

Yeah...nah

Hmm, I should go back and note where this text quotes or alludes to the Bible *sees that this has already been done* Oh, good job, Past Me!

The new thing in my daughter's class is not to say "six seven" out loud anymore, but just to do the six seven gesture silently and randomly

This Old French law about when marriages can't take place includes "careme prenant des moines". "Careme" comes from "quadragesima", the 40 days of Lent, and "careme prenant" is the first Tuesday, so, Mardi Gras, simple enough. But what's this about "des moines"? Does it mean monks?

I have a Weird Mole™️, which seems like the sort of thing you should get checked out, so I went to the dermatologist. But apparently it's perfectly normal, sometimes a mole just grows its own second mole. Otherwise my skin is "perfectly healthy" 😎

I had to stop by my parents' house quickly, but they were doing a puzzle, so...several hours later...

My sinuses for some reason

The Simpsons episode that has aged the worst may be the one where Homer changes his name to Max Power and starts hanging around the rich and powerful in Springfield, who all turn out to be liberal activists

Everyone keeps talking about how this Jays team doesn't live up to the 1992 and 1993 teams, but this forgets the other tough losses along the way - 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, when they weren't quite good enough to get to the World Series, or even the ALCS. This time they're just getting started!

It happened again!

My son dressed up as a jackalope for Halloween, and he kept telling people he was a cryptid. I told him there's a remote chance that people will know what a jackalope is, but it's much less likely that they'll know the word "cryptid." He was kind of disappointed, because cryptids are fun and cool

I don't think I've ever been able to physically feel my blood pressure rise like that before. It took me a couple of hours to calm down and fall asleep! Usually I'll put the sports highlights shows on as background noise in the morning but I can't do it today

Well, taking last year's winners to extra innings in game 7 is still pretty good...

Gary Bettman does not want the Jays to win the Series. He's just that powerful

I have a bad feeling that if the Jays can't win today they're not going to win tomorrow either

Just about finished with the introduction and conclusions

Everyone has an aunt who's not really an aunt, and an unc who's washed and chopped

The kids had dentist appointments today and we got to use the Canadian Dental Care Plan for the first time. A rare win for the federal government! Jagmeet Singh, we hardly knew ye

Too many crazy things are happening in this game again, this is too stressful for this time of night

The Jays know how to *take* the lead, they just don’t know how to *hold* the lead. And that’s really the most important part of the lead, the holding. Anybody can just take them!

Time moves fast...my son to is already starting to apply to university. I remember when I did this and it was all on paper! We couldn't even pick courses online back then. Now it's all on a website of course

Pretty cool that my car key is just a fob with a battery and there's no physical way to unlock or start the car when the battery dies. There is actually a physical key inside the fob but the car itself has no keyholes?! Neat

OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING Honestly I thought just making it to the World Series was the best that could happen and the Dodgers would steamroll them in 4

Why does CityTV, which is owned by Rogers, show the Fox broadcast of the World Series (and the other playoff games), and the Canadian broadcast is on Sportsnet, which is also owned by Rogers, which also owns the team, and the stadium

Just put a sixth mug full of bacon grease in the fridge. Just in case

I managed to draft Steph Curry and Kawhi Leonard in fantasy basketball, which would be pretty awesome if it was 2015

I'm still traumatized from the Leafs-Bruins game 7 in 2013. Please don't Leafs this thing up

There's a new kid in my daughter's class this year, but she moved from the city where we also used to live, and it turns out they were born in the same hospital, on the same day, within minutes of each other

It's coming home, it's coming home (to Beachville, Ontario, the real site of the first baseball game, in 1838)

Bobs & Lolo had a show on TreehouseTV in Canada when my son was a baby, and almost 20 years later I still listen to this. For a song meant for toddlers, this SLAPS

Who keeps switching back and forth between "p." and "pp." for ranges of pages in MY footnotes. Pretty rude

Many years ago I downloaded an mp3 of She's All That by Big Sugar which someone must have recorded off the radio, because it ends with a phone ringing and Troy McClure saying "what the hell? Oh we got a call" (from Marge On The Lam). So now whenever I hear it without that part it sounds weird

The Escorial library digitized the manuscript of Usama ibn Munqidh's Kitab al-I'tibar!

Machine translation post-editing

I'm full of Moderna's finest covid antibodies

Ah, so much work has been done on the burgess assizes lately, it's great! My introduction to this edition doesn't need to be very long, everyone else's work can speak for itself *accidentally writes 100 pages anyway*

You know how you get a popup saying data may be lost if you improperly unplug an external drive and you always think "sure, whatever" and unplug it anyway? I think I actually did lose a bunch of files this way?!

I gamed The Algorithm so it's showing me nothing but Yankees fans crying and moaning

Got that sweet sweet O neg

We're editing a letter for the kids in my wife's class to bring home and it said "we ask that it is...", so naturally I said this is one of the rare instances where we need to use the subjunctive "be" ...they don't know what I'm talking about. But I know they've seen it before! It's not dead yet!

holy shit Macho Man Trey Yesavage

Once again it's the most exciting day of the year, fantasy hockey draft day! Unfortunately not enough of last year's team wanted to play again so I had to join some random team

I got several more Chuck III coins. I'm not sure why I find this so fascinating (a weird old tradition...but different??) I have a George V penny somewhere too

Finished the Beatles For Sale puzzle I got for my birthday. 1000 pieces, most of which seemed to be the white/yellowish background or the black coat pieces or their hair. The faces were a bit easier. Some pieces are only microscopically different so I put a bunch of them in the wrong spot at first

My daughter can walk to school and back home by herself, but she usually still wants me to come with her. I think it's mostly because there's an extremely chatty crossing guard along the way. It's too early in the morning to be that chatty! It's too much for any time of day!

"Yarr...I don't know what I'm doing" whenever I don't know what I'm doing which is surprisingly often

This is exactly the way real humans talked to each other at the AI company I briefly worked for

Canadian radio on September 30: Today is a day to amplify and listen to Indigenous voices *plays Summer of 69*

How about those Blue Jays!!