Elmo really not liking to think about how he’ll be remembered, eh

Hank’s aunt came for a visit and he greeted her in traditional corgi fashion, with plenty of face bites

Hank hope you have a great day. Freyja hopes you drop some food 🤞

A Lyme vaccination is finally coming for humans. I genuinely wonder if anti vaxxers in Maine will avoid this, especially if they know anyone who has had Lyme disease. mainecampus.com/category/new...

In terms of things I am delighted by in SQL Server, the more I work with Postgres, the more I appreciate how amazing and convenient tempdb is in SQL Server. There are things that are good about each db engine, tempdb is one of the sql server things that’s awesome.

Deeply disturbed to learn this week that INSERT .. EXEC in sql server is effectively cursed. The syntax for this should require you to append the words WITH SLOW to ensure one is aware. www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip...

I only need to buy thread and some buckles, but that doesn’t stop me from browsing every last category on www.wawak.com/sewing/ Reader, I’m getting a bodkin. Because obviously I need a thing named “bodkin”

Catching up on Widow’s Bay and using it to educate Hank about Maine

Hands free puppy mode

Hank just woke up from his nap

When I am too tired to work, an observability monitor fires in my brain that I keep rewriting and deleting slack messages before I ever send them That’s how I notice Yes, I think of myself as a sort of production software system with all its flaws and eccentricities

Tired: Smells Like Teen Spirit Wired: Smells Like Eugenics

Anti Trans Nancy Mace lost in the primary for South Carolina governor— ah ya love to see it 🦋🌷💐🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤💐🌷🦋

Good Morning, Hank Loves You

We should be naming things after Trump. For example, the screwworm is a flesh eating parasite, it should be called the Trumpworm.

Hey US Peeps make sure to vote today! Got a good crew here locally waiting for the doors to open at my voting location 🤩

Same, puppy. Same

New potato just dropped

I love my current job for many reasons— mostly it’s that I get to work with amazing people, but also I do very little work where the outcome feels “Ew”, “Ick”, or “Oof”

The NYTimes doing all these hit pieces on Platner is weird to me, because Mainers seem *very much* like they do not care to be told what to think by the NY Times Does it make the paper owner happy because he thinks it will work, but the actual journalists think it will backfire?

My strong advice is to not read articles about anything that starts with “s” and ends with “worm” today

Honestly this would be a compelling seasonal theme, and if it reduces the population of manosphere influencers then what is the harm in nature taking its course

Buying puppy pads for a potential upcoming lil friend because the last thing I want to expose them to is news

“North Carolina judge said Levi Mendez-Maldonado failed to show up in court – even after being told he had died in 2024” We are an ignorant and violent people, yall www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Every Mainer group chat right now

Today I became interested in designing an application pattern, to the point that I genuinely cared to learn how the c# works (usually it’s out of duty, not interest) I’m proud of myself but also convinced app code is generally a filthy thing compared to the beauty of a relational db

Delighted to see this fail. Midwestern bigots, keep your hatred away from Maine. www.centralmaine.com/2026/05/26/i...

I have now entered my “learning chemistry from the r/laundry subreddit” phase of adulthood

Symphony by Josh Johnson on hbo max is a great watch It’s a little different than his usual standup, but excellent in its own way

I’m in the phase of a cold where I’m not fully sick, just ick

Computers may be a mistake overall, but it sure is nice to have a group chat that is 95% of everyone’s pet pictures, updated daily

One piece of advice I have heard for quilting is that if you don’t like a fabric, keep cutting it into smaller pieces until you do The advice works. One way or another, the disliked fabric is taken care of

I *love* the ability to write slack messages whenever is convenient, but schedule them to not send until a bit into the next actual workday

I had a really excellent and immersive work week. It’s weird surfacing after it and starting to read news 🫣

I don’t know exactly what this is going to be, but there’s no reason to let that stop me from quilting it

I hate putting away laundry so much than when I finally do it I get a long lost reunion with clothes I like and haven’t seen in months

I didn’t realize how convenient it is to have a haircut with a long top and shaved sides until I got one — it’s very easy to get your partner or friend to refresh it by clipping the sides between haircuts. Gives nice flexibility maintaining it.

Achievement unlocked: I’ve sewn enough that I’m starting to be able to detect that I need to change out for a new needle before it becomes completely obvious

TikTok has served me up a wonderful series of clips of Marshan Camese giving a *powerful* speech against gerrymandering and corruption, then delightfully causing the audience to laugh at a republican senator who made a stupid comment. www.rawstory.com/louisiana-re...

Starting to visualize myself pressing a “disable emotional aura” button on the Guardian app before I read the news

I once worked near a place in Seattle with an amazing eggplant parm sub, and now every ~six months I get a real craving for that sandwich. Luckily New England seems to be the place to be to get a good version of this, a local pizza shop makes my two-times-a-year sandwich experience delightful.

I wonder how many Google searches there are per day on the US president having dementia or mental illness

A while back I got some of those rectangular freezer containers where you freeze leftovers in Minecraft style blocks that are each 1 to 4 servings, depending on size & the food. We use the hell out of those things, they are awesome. Makes such a difference to have portions that defrost quickly.

Great session with @kendralittle.bsky.social today inspired me to write a new post: How to use Data Wrangler in Microsoft Fabric to check your development of dimension tables 💡 💡 💡 : dataworkmom.short.gy/datawrangling

I read last week about John Roberts saying the Supreme Court isn't political, and it gets funnier every day

Our modern crisis in the search for meaning: but what if I'm just a bag of subagents

“Lap swimming” sounds so tame as an exercise, when the reality is more like “Getting High in the Pool.” The endorphins are real.

My husband ask if I use cheats for in-game money in The Sims, and I was surprised there was any question. There's no such thing as poverty in my pretend world, and I've also completely disabled aging for pets.

Chex, the pansexual cereal, goes sweet, salty-- it goes pretty much every way there is.

I do not like exercising in the morning, but data is starting to show that I have a better day afterwards in terms of mood . And I’ll admit, it is a LOT of data because I did not particularly want to reach this conclusion.