No thoughts, empty head.

A list of things on screen during the game awards: - bug hat - Miss Piggy - live flying peasants - chicken feet grandma - eyeball wall - rodent server - chainsaw zombie doctor - space squid/bear/janitor - "crunchie wunchies" - half made naked worm lady - wolf deer - future-knight with sniper rifle

Purple kale + purple cauliflower + purple carrot = purple soup

My work laptop has a fingerprint reader that’s linked to the 2fa for all internal access. This means every morning I have to reach over and give my computer a reassuring pat or two before it will let me view a doc or connect to the VPN. “There, there. It’s okay computer. You can open my email app.”

Oh yeah, we got another cat and turned our little balcony into a playground for the two of ‘em.

Minor benefits to suffering through a double ear infection: - loud fans, whining cats, and construction noise no longer disruptive as all sound is gone - swollen jaw means oops all soft foods! cream of wheat and pastina for days - video games have new hard mode as you learn to play while lying down

I have a second job now and it is playing Silksong. I’m not good at this job but I sure am spending time doing it.

Beach day

Got to the vet’s office a bit early for the cat’s yearly checkup which meant she got to snoop around the examination room while I got to snoop on her medical chart.

Intermission photograph curation: A sucker for a silly hat, a pretty good sconce, and you must be thinking of some other band

Of course the audience for They Might Be Giants would comprise entirely of punctual nerds. Got here 3 minutes after doors opening and I think every ticket holder is already in line in front of me.

adding balatro to the list of games I can't watch other people play, because they're making objectively incorrect decisions (slightly different than mine).

Went to a few museums during my trip home to Boston, but the best art I saw was while waiting for the red line at Park St.

Went to smash putt tonight, which in theory is mini golf course, but is actually paintball, battleship, laser tag, and foosball. And also somehow a grody restroom, a summer picnic, a marble run, and an intergalactic space flight. Decorated in VHSes.

Nearly every ballot question I've seen since moving to Seattle has been some form of "but are you *sure* you want us to collect taxes for [normal/reasonable thing taxes should pay for]? Are you REALLY sure? What if I ask again in a special election, would you still want a tax then?" Yes! Always yes!

hello friend

My hair appointment was in my calendar for an hour earlier than it actually is, which I’m pretty sure Past Tara did months ago to trick me into having lunch at the cute cafe next door. Went from panic-running out the door while checking the confirmation email to a leisurely stroll to order a sammich

Gird yourselves, a whole bunch of things are going to break this and next week because holiday code freezes are over and devs will be making code changes that were due last year all at the same time. In related news, my online-only bank won’t let anyone log in right now.

Searched to see if there’s garbage chinese takeout anywhere in seattle and the short answer is no but the funnier answer is this question pops up in r/seattle every few years from east coasters lamenting their lack of pu pu platters and the same fights repeat in the comments of possible places to go

Look at this little sweetie. You’d never guess she was yowling from the top of the stairs (where it echoes best) not 10 minutes ago.

A 10 minute break in the rain was just enough time for a rainbow to peek through.

If you ever wondered what an alternate universe Great British Bake Off would be - it’s the National Championships of Elite Electricians. It’s tradesman installing appliances, but also a timed and judged competition with cutaways to their wholesome electrician backstories.

Oh boy I sure do love getting paged by work while on vacation. My most favoritest thing to happen at six in the morning.

PAX has been a blast - created a couple new languages (DADADA and Gibberers are great games!), ate bread and cheese with an egg on it, fed a mimic chest in exchange for a barrel of monkeys, and someone gave me a crown!

The very tall very old tree adjacent to and also looming over the house is aggressively pelting the windows with pinecones as it sways in the wind. Steady background of plonk plunk plink PLONK while the lights flicker is not exactly making it easy to relax.

Cool cool cool, had the E. coli carrots in my crisper drawer - guess I’m sanitizing my fridge tonight. www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

I have to write reviews for my team AND feedback for my peers and I hate this kind of writing because it needs justifications and examples and flowery verbiage and I can’t just say “they’re good, give them more money” or “meh, not actively making my work harder so w/e” or “ugggggh”.

The result:

Earlier this week @lthummus.bsky.social caught the cat helping me put up Halloween decorations.

Was sat facing art titled “Cabbages” earlier today and because my idling brain had nothing better to do it constructed an entire parody of Hot Hot Heat’s Bandages from that prompt. So now not only do I have an earworm of a song stuck in my head but it’s rattling around in there with the wrong lyrics

The problem with visiting home for just the weekend is there’s a good 3 weeks’ worth of food I want to eat and only ~72 hours in which to eat it. Already had to swap out sfogliatelle for cider donuts, and skipped the drive up to my favorite pizza place. Real tough choices being made here.

Played this video back at my cat and now she’s gone quiet searching for the mystery-cat whining in her house.

Currently in San Francisco and cannot adjust to the walking cadence here. Everyone is so slow I need a cow catcher to hold in front of me to plow through all these leisurely amblers.

Not the crème de la crème of a 1%er, but I’ll take it.

she is beauty, she is grace

Plugging a LLM into the back of a text adventure game is neat in theory, but in practice all you’ve done is replace the generic “I don’t know what you mean by that” response with the more esoteric “429: Rate Limit Error” response.

It's happening again...

Could I live in some precedented times for a while? That'd be nice.

It may look like she’s sniffing flowers but she is actually searching for a bug to try to eat (preferably a bee) and then be mad at (because it flew away/tried to sting her).

My phone has a potato for a camera but the aurora was so bright here it didn’t matter.

I bought a set of fabric planters to garden with and the cat immediately claimed one as her own. So instead of 5 planters I now have 4 planters and a cat sack.

Truly I have become a curmudgeon - every one of these optional-but-free health perks my work offers requires an app downloaded to my phone to access. I just want the ability interact with your company in a plain jane browser as god intended.

Ooo, i get to continue this ritual on a whole new site. Exciting!

lol no

Finding out if the stories are true and if the most opportune time to grocery shop is during the Super Bowl. Off to Costco to see if I have the store to myself.

Only took a few photos at this weekend’s shindig, but I can’t not share this hilarious dog-coddling. He looked so concerned while being held but also didn’t want to be set down? Even though this is his house? And the person holding him doesn’t live there?

Puzzmo, what kinda dictionary you got running over there that Italian beans are excluded, eh? 🤌🤌

Looks like 2023 is where I reach the limit of my capabilities for understanding how to interpret the tax forms being sent to me. One round of employee stock purchase plan’d sales and we’ve crossed over into complicated time-percentage-math that elicit a low buzzing sound where my thoughts should be.