Cool, I’ve got something to do on Monday: events.pol-rev.com/events/fcfb4...

I’m beginning to feel like I’m Severed, using my work hours (reminiscent of Macrodata Refinement) to avoid thinking about all the horrors, but I get to keep my memories so the memes still make sense.

If I’m not careful, I’m going to get back into embroidery.

Started watching the Lower Decks episode of Dropout’s Dirty Laundry, and had to sketch the expression Tawny Newsome made when she was accused of writing a college essay about Avril Lavigne. I haven’t sketched in Procreate in a while, it’s different than I’m used to. Ended up kinda pastel-y.

I was going to get up and vacuum, but then my dog curled up next to me on the couch, and I guess the floor will just have to stay dirty.

Oh snap!

Little moments of joy: asking your friends to help you figure out why a formula isn’t producing the correct result, then fixing it yourself through sheer bloody stubbornness before any of them respond.

Relatedly, the serenity prayer is for real pretty darn good y'all.

If i died I‘d want to be known as someone my friends, family, and students know they could trust and confide in. Many of us are scared and its fine to admit that. Many of us who are alone are terrified and its fine to admit that too. Be a rock or a light or a beacon for yourself and for others.

If there are any kids in this Millennial retirement home, I urge you to take care of this fuckery in your 20s. Middle-aged You will be grateful. I’m too old for this shit.

The layers on this one. 😂

My credit score is going to go down for applying for a new credit card which I did to increase my credit score because my credit report dinged me for only having one card. I could not hate this bullshit system more.

Excellent thread. I was particularly glad to read that there *is* a program for people who worked at fire camps to get into the fire service after their release. Also that they can get their records expunged.

Do not feel compelled to finish a book you are not enjoying or getting something from! No shame in DNF!

Please send anything you can to Jordan @indiedynamo.bsky.social, who lost his home, brother, and father to the fires here in Los Angeles. If you can’t donate, please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-jorda...

Someone in my normally very quiet building is playing something with a very repetitive twang that is just loud enough to trigger my misophonia, but I don’t know where it’s coming from. Probably time to get new noise-canceling headphones.

If you’re in the LA area and are looking to help volunteer with the fire relief efforts: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Volunteered for a few hours in Pasadena today at a site collecting donations, and it was really great to see people dropping off carloads. Where I was they were looking for new items (used items were separated to be donated later) and there was a shortage of kids clothing, especially older kids.

Black Families Displaced By California Wildfires Launch Online Fundraisers To Help Start Over A significant portion of the Black population in #Altadena, which was decimated by the #EatonFire, is aged 65 and older. newsone.com/5844408/help...

I think tomorrow morning I’ll see if any of the places on this mutual aid list are looking for volunteers. Deeply appreciate whoever compiled the list.

I wish there was a convenient way to explain to the Muppet why we’re not going for our usual long walks, because ‘I don’t think they make N95 masks for dogs,’ isn’t translating.

Obsessively checking the Watch Duty app, but otherwise okay. Air is fucked, but I’m out of range of the fires for now, and the winds have stopped in my area.

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

SoCal folks - the Watch Duty app is providing live updates including push notifications re: fires, evac warnings, and evac notices, including full evacuation area maps. It's free to download and easy to use.

Power has been glitching all day, but aside from repeatedly killing my computer, the wind hasn’t done any damage here. Still, the wind is howling and things are burning. Have a pic of the Muppet in her new hoodie in these trying times:

I finished Chuck Tingle’s Bury Your Gays and I fucking love Tara.

Including graphic novels, I got to read *77* books last year - which is not some kind of competition, but a *privilege*. And it’s all thanks to Libby and the LA Public Library for making them accessible to me. (Also shout-out to Kobo as my e-reader of choice.) Here’s to another year of literacy!

I want my appliances to be dumb and my elected officials to be smart, not the other way round

Construction went pretty smoothly thanks to my Hoto electronic screwdriver (I love this thing so much) and deconstruction of the old tree was easier than I anticipated. Tenant has accepted it as a new place to eat, but hasn’t officially moved in.

Um… At least it had a happy ending?

Oh yeah, this is happening.

Now with correct spelling!

A kind Tumblrina pointed out a spelling mistake and now I will be haunted forever by my hubris.

Flagging this for a cross stitch design.

I felt inspired.

Valkyrie’s new cat tree/condo is supposed to deliver today, so I have to figure out how to get the old one out of here. Pretty sure I’ll have to dismantle it which will undoubtedly be a spectacle. She tends to take awhile to adapt to new things, so I expect her to hate it.

My second attempt went through. Never let technology convince you you have to contact customer service without a fight.

There was a literal dumpster fire across the street last night as a garbage truck’s load caught fire in the alley. What a way to sign off 2024!

Nothing like getting all geared up to finally accomplish a task only to have a website tell you it can’t complete the task online and you’ll have to call the company. The proverbial wind has gone out of my ADHD sails.

My only real goal for this year is to become as financially literate as it’s possible to be for someone who hates numbers.

If you're going to be taking advantage of the free weekend of Apple TV, my top 3 recommendations are: Slow Horses, Severance and Mythic Quest. Not sure you'd be able to get through all of them in that time, though, as SH is up to 4 seasons so far. Severance has one, and MQ has three, currently.

This project reminded me that I have low tolerance for letting paint dry, but it’s done! A detachable ‘guard rail’ for my desk so the Muppet’s bed stays tucked in. It’s affixed with Velcro strips so I can remove it if necessary. Nebula is currently afraid of it.

I put all of my free references from this year in one pack. You can download it via Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/ac47b53b1c

Throwing this back out there. The Muppet needs a new collar.

I do hope to make new comics and write more essays in 2025. I’m choosing not to beat myself up if I don’t. My need to make things and share them will come out in some form or another. Crochet, baking, DIY…it’s all good. Art can mean connection, and I want more of that, however it manifests.

If I were more adept at social media, I’d start an account for ‘Throw Pillow Quotes’ and “Sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn’t an egg” would definitely go on the list. Actually, has @tspcalligrapher.bsky.social see this?

We’ve got a serious spooky fog in my neighborhood this morning. Walking the dog like we’re the last creatures on earth - except for whatever lurks in the mist….

Next #DIY project is building a ‘guard rail’ for my desk, so Nebula’s bed stays where it belongs and she might be less inclined to fling it across the room mid-zoomies.