Ropa vieja today.

This is either a note to the Elf on the Shelf or from Mateo Gaetz (or both are true).

I’m looking for “holiday traditions” photos the teacher asked for. And I came across this one from years ago. 😆

My kid is sick and I’m working. No screens. Just did watercolors and made pens and soaps. Such an awesome kid.

My computer shut down right before a meeting with the director of HR, my new director, and another director. So I was on one screen, which was shared for an hour. An exhilarating, white-knuckle ride.

Muslim fruit sellers definitely covering the spread on 21st Century current events.

Will always be my home

Hero

In February I’ll be teaching a writing workshop designed to help embrace “place” as a character, especially in writing centered in war, conflict, or trauma. Limited to 10. consequenceforum.org/workshops/

Spanish Christmas lunch with family starting now: 2pm I’m guessing we leave at 7pm. Updates to follow

My street in Argüelles, Madrid about 90 years ago.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

The school saves me a special seat for recitals. No idea why.

I’m a sucker for beautiful fonts

I blame all of this on Hot-or-Not.

I still think about this kid I saw eating cotton candy in a Ferrari

Lots of dancing as the tree goes up

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Only person at the office. Ain’t no dress code today.

Well that escalated quickly…

If your Spotify Wrapped isn’t something like Roberto Gerhard - Symphony No. 3, I-IV on repeat I don’t care.

So I won’t have to pay the USD 2,350 fee to renounce citizenship, file and/or pay US taxes, or make FBAR filings? Ok.

My boss offered a colleague his house for a night (long story) and we’re coming up with the most insane thing he could do that wouldn’t get him fired. My suggestion: leave a MadLib behind “accidentally” with every blank filled out with the word “salad”.

When I was a kid I would take two of these, proceed to call the toll-free number for the airline catalog, and select French and Spanish operators; then I’d put the phones together and have them talk to each other during the flight. The operators always cracked up.

I’ll never fall out of love with you, Madrid.

My work inbox now has 212 MB of free space.

My father in law went to Plaza Mayor and got me a (modified) traditional caganer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

Lots of people going to this protest (Madrid).

Niche.

Costco coming through for me

Bala o bellota? Yes.

Time-traveling fascist Benedict Cumberbatch really steals the show in this March 1938 malt cream (coffee alternative) ad in an article published in the Nationalist-backing publication Aragon about international "friends".

My children, born in Spain, call them “smashed potatoes” and I have no plans to ever correct them.

"...Ryan returns home with his secretary..."

Met a girl on study abroad in undergrad –I had always planned on law school, but EU rules on non-EU candidates also made a law degree far easier to justify my candidacy for EU jobs than my Econ and IR degrees. 20 years later and three kids with her.

Some very excited people leaving for the front in Spanish Civil War.

Now this is a true Spanish restaurant

Walmart, is you ok?

When Calibre gets the metadata wrong, it really gets it wrong...

Trump’s knack for these types of disarming comments is really something. I wish his parents would have hugged and supported him, because I would have loved to see a non-fully-transactional Trump.

Rehearsing for the Christmas play. Nothing half-assed in this house

A reminder: Russia deserves nothing but scorn and the obligation to rebuild Ukraine. And gtfo.

Chonky boi on the nationalist side of the battle line in Casa de Campo

Governor of Texas is bewildered by arbitration.

The system to take care of veterans isn't broken: it's nonexistent. A single day goes by where U. S. veterans cannot receive care should be an impeachable offense for every single sitting politician, but of course keeping trans kids from playing high school baseball is the order of the day. Shameful

Excellent from @gilestremlett "Even today, Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...