I’m giving out books tonight in addition to candy. It’s funny. Some kids are like ‘no book’ and some are like ‘oh wow, I got a book!’

BREAKING: Not actually Carmy’s cousin

'The "uncle" who Frodo said got rich by adventuring with Dwarves is actually a distant cousin, he clarified on Monday.' - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, The Shire Post

Carved the pumpkins I grew this year and finished decorating the house to be spooky.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon messing around making baskets out of the invasive English ivy I cleaned up. Very, very rustic baskets, but it was actually pretty fun.

There’s something so lovely about sitting in bed on a rainy Sunday morning drinking a good cup of a coffee with your dog snuggled up next to you.

The GIF is perfect.

oh we're gonna *lose* lose the next big war

I’m watching ‘Gilmore Girls’ for the first time. I can’t even with Lorelei. But Luke and Dean are both hot.

Punk bands played his stuff in the 80s, dipshit

A painting I did of a friend’s cat who recently passed. The cat’s name was Kevin Garnett. RIP Kevin

Currently at the animal ER for the second time this week due to my dog’s seizures. Zero out of five stars. Do not recommend.

Oliver is trying to wind down for the night.

‘I had a bad habit Of missing lovers past My brother used to call it "Eating out of the trash” …’ Girl, that lyric hit. 😂

My girl pup’s day in the ICU for seizures has worn both dogs out. Tonight starts life with a dog with epilepsy. Hoping her new meds keep things under control going forward.

I took a ‘bird anatomy’ watercolor class today. It was a lovely way to spend a late Saturday morning. Here’s the studies I painted.

Really enjoyed the first two episodes.

We have new renters on the other side of my leaf blower dad neighbor, and those renters include a leaf blower dad…the kind that uses it daily to clear his front steps. 😫 Brooms…brooms work just fine for steps.

I currently feel like a spider scrabbling in a glass jar. Just saying…

Time to break out the chart

I mean spaghetti is pretty great.

Woo hoo! Just handed in my badge and laptop. This girl is retired!

Can we talk about how Alien:Earth has me sympathizing with and rooting for this eyeball girl? I mean she’s been kidnapped and is just trying to save herself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A reminder: you can usually move around yr 401k allocations w/o any tax repercussions. I wish I had remembered that when COVID hit. I remembered it now. With the job numbers, the fed shenanigans, gold hitting record highs, etc., it feels like something bad might be about to hit before end of yr.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

I was so excited about my retirement being about going back to NM instead of having to seriously plan on moving out of the country.

I went into the first therapy appointment of my life today, and this was literally one of my gripes.

economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this

Finally, I’m having a successful tomato summer. I have so many ripening now that I got to give some of all three varieties to my neighbor, and she was delighted. Sharing from one’s garden definitely is one of the small joys in life.

I finally watched ‘K-Pop Demonhunters’. Great flick, but I was particularly impressed with and charmed by the tiger and magpie characters (Derpy and Sussy).

some of you haven’t listened to Drive-By Truckers’ The Dirty South one million times and it shows

I was hoping for this. Good job, NM.

I know Taylor and Travis are engaged. So upon reflecting on their happiness, here’s the kind of guy who might entice this fabulous spinster back into having a partner: A tall guy who cries when he loves a piece of art.

Somewhere, Fred Rogers is smiling

Managed a paint sketch of a rose tonight.

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

Software instructor: “I don’t recommend making shortcuts this way. It makes it easy to accidentally delete someone else’s file.” Me:

I decided to grow jack o’lantern pumpkins this year. The vines are happy but still struggling with getting pumpkins started. I’ve learned there’s girl and boy flowers. Now I go out and actively pollinate the girls with the boys. Might have one finally taking. Hurray!

Oh the superhero movie was woke? Then maybe go see a film with a more nuanced plot than the good guys vs the bad guys

This is really lovely!

It's almost like it's the diff between a generation who got calls mostly from friends and one that gets calls mostly from scammera

The key mistake here, and this happens a lot across all parts of our culture, is the idea that unless your action is the sole deciding factor in the outcome, the action is useless. Even people who get that we’re all just pebbles need to believe they could be *the one* that starts the avalanche.

Kind of miss when 90% of articles on books weren't "is modern literature too woke for my three male friends who read one book a decade?!"

Ok, hear me out.

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

It’s a good measure of how so many do not understand how expensive poverty is nor how much work it is to do grocery shopping by bus or train. Or how far it can be in underserved urban areas. And it isn’t just food. Add trying to get to a laundromat etc

If you don't think human rights are a "kitchen table issue," then you don't have enough people at your table.

Hurray! It’s Murderbot o’clock!