I mean...if you have to get older, be a powerful witch who looks fabulous.

Dear sinuses-you do realize there's not really that much I can do about you feeling abused by pollen and than punishing me with a headache just is the equivalent of throwing a tantrum that you had to eat your vegetables, right? So stop.

Work friend stops by after dinner: here take this bottle of wine and a piece of pie.

I apologize, briefly, for reposting so many things today. I am a fox of very little brain and much boredom.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Spider man, spider man Showing off his spider can Free the buns from their cage Assless tights are all the rage

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Dear body: well done, you caught the nasty little pollen that I breathed in because the world consists of plant spooge right now. Calm down and stop giving me a headache and need for a nap when I'm trying to work.

stop making me write self-evaluations leave me alone and give me a performance rating of He Did His Job, please and thank you I have no more ambition, I do not need a promotion, I will do good work, just stop bothering me about it

You know, it’s not helpful to my mood to walk in and see AI plastered all over every bus and sign. At least I got to feed the crows

I just saw an irish person on instagram suggesting if you go to Ireland to break the ice with "Tá ispiní beag agat" I suggest you not say this though at certain bars "An bhfuil ispini mór agat?" may work in your favor.

Homemade sourdough. I do not particularly get along with no knead dough.

Pie

Tomato sauce simmering, ollaliberry pie in the oven. Still need to bake bread but it's doing a long rise in the refrigerator until the pie is about ready.

Got to chat with a cute (though very young) cashier at world market before doing the ‘oh sure now that my hands are full you want to fall off’ walk of shorts shame on the way home. I (barely) managed to get home before showing the world my stylish but practical boxer briefs.

Also, due to an allergy to non-mineral sunscreens and my already pale skin I apparently need to just embrace my destiny as an evil clown.

Dear family: when there is a family in a nursing home with cancer sending out a text that says “service today” because you’re a bit of a religious nut is NOT reassuring

I swear if this ever went on an epic quest it would be to dim the sun (this probably makes me the villain and I’m totally okay with that)

Me out at 1pm in the summer: argh, so much light. Why is there so much light?

It is annoying that my Thiry two Three waist jean feel tight but my size thirty two waist shorts would puddle to floor if I didn’t keep pulling them up

I’d forgotten to his Terry Prachett ism. “I am a lifetime in my own legend”

The perils of wanting to get breakfast out at a place that opens at 11 and pairing it with the farmers market is that I have to deal with many people with low blood sugar and it’s warm today. Many muttered threats of bodily harm if people didn’t get out of my way.

Dear Duo: I find it intensely disturbing that you had to specify this particular chicken was dead…

Joy, we were told we could knock off at 2 for the holiday weekend and of course there's an approval that is in routing that hasn't gotten to me yet that's super time critical.

You know, in general I had no interest in a Betty Boop movie but if they're going to be shitty about casting a black actress as Betty I'm tempted to be right there with popcorn when it comes out.

One of the amusing things about knowing a bit of a language that fantasy authors mine for names and such is occasionally running into a character name or something that I understand the meaning of. Which leads to weird realizations like they named the dread wolf in DA-"light"

In other news, I often miss long form blog posting. I know it still exists but most of my friends aren't there anymore.

Apparently there's some furry drama about a show I know nothing about and this post has nothing to do with it but more to do with an article I just read. I do not, at all, understand fans who get mad when the story they get doesn't match what they planned in their head for the story.

It has, generally, been a very bad week for braining and I apologize for ranting quite so much. I am hoping the three day weekend will help me get my act together a bit. Maybe I'll bake something ridiculous.

Is there some newly popular cologne that smells like Dr. Pepper/cola? I've walked past three independent people today that have smell liked they bathed in soda it's odd. Either that or I've had a stroke and get soda instead of burnt toast ;-) (Yes, that's a myth, it's still amusing)

I'm having an old man yelling at clouds sort of day.

Because companies can't put gods damned identifying information on past due invoices I'm on hold with a company that is currently playing what sounds like seventies porn music. And then when I finally got through it sent me to a webex meeting rather than a human and I have no meeting ID. Arrggh

Everything is utter shit right now. I don't know where to turn. I need established things and community support to give me comfort. There's only one rule of the internet I'm any good at following. Please: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...

Remember when Google claimed it's motto was "Don't be evil" and we kind of believed it? Yeah, me either.

Because my computer decided to play a Christmas song-why is it for Christmas “there will be scary ghost stories” This is not a tradition in my family

I keep meaning to post progress on puzzles to amuse myself and I always forget

In other news I may have just bought myself tickets to a Marvel themed burlesque show around my birthday.

I'm not an author though I've done my share of writing off and on through the years and one things I can tell you-as soon as you start looking at life creatively you will have more ideas than you ever have time to do anything with. Will they all be good ideas? No But you'll still have them.

This is very apt. But the book was very good and deserves that rating.

One day you'll find someone that's obsessed with you. It's probably a dog, but it is what it is.

I very much dislike when it's sunny when I leave for work and when I get home. I want my cloak of darkness to hide my traces (and I hate squinting in the sun)

It takes very little time for me to be in a public space to determine that I hate children. And parents. (After running into a line taking up the entire sidewalk) I hate people

Me, making lidded difficult at a restaurant because I have fifty ten dollar off gift cards, rewards points and a general discount for being part of their whiskey club

Spotted on Tumblr…

I did not click on the link but “Japan releases ‘monster wolf’ robots to repel record bear attacks “ is a headline for the ages

Have survived years of service celebration walk of stage to collect commemorative coin. Managed not to laugh at the one person who blatantly snubbed shaking the hand of the head of university HR during her walk.

For @glimmerstomp.bsky.social

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.