yes kiddo and I just crashed a kid's birthday party by showing up a full two weeks early to the party that we were actually invited to

RETVRN (thank you bsky.app/profile/did:... for paving the way!)

kiddo is doing a Lego star wars build while I supervise and set up a raspberry pi happy friday folks, we made it

no better encapsulation of the difference between IC brain and exec brain than the time @jmhodges.bsky.social told me in a 1:1, with *obvious* frustration, "Ronnie. I don't need you to allocate budget for a chainsaw next year, I need you to get me a chainsaw for today" absolutely read me for filth

software engineers believe their work is legible to execs (it is not) and execs believe their work is legible to software engineers (it is not) and there's a whole blog post in there about the work that is needed to translate between those factions

i am not a pokemon but i would also like someone to come over, beautify my environment, ask me if I'm comfortable, and set up enrichment activities for me

micro-horror: sending a slack message to someone gently asking about them being hideously late to your 1:1 only to realize that you didn't actually add them to the calendar invite

me trying to get a handle on my to-do list before end of day Friday

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morning kiddo question #28 "how big do ants see dinosaurs as?"

my son has invented brutalism from first principles in the Withered Wasteland

i just watched a video of a woman churning butter by putting cream in a ziploc bag in her backpack and running 6 miles and this is the kind of innovation i'm here for

spiralizing a potato over my lunch break, as one does

no one does Dadaism like kindergartners

someone should invent an outdoor SAD lamp that is on for 15 hours a day

when I say I'm going to soak up the sun, this is what I mean

not sure if it's the return of the sun or the fact that I'm back to taking my multivitamin consistently but holy crap it's nice to wake up and have energy to do things again without having to *work* so hard for it

Stephen Hawking tried to run me over with his wheelchair

my "don't be mad" post is making a lot of people mad at me in a way that is expressly prohibited by the post

don't be mad but I checked off seven things on my not-urgent and not-important todo list at the expense of eating lunch

not even 10am and i have already committed my second act of pettiness, great way to start the day off right

just bought a spiralizer so I can throw a potato party

Trust a toddler to remind you that every bad day can get worse with the addition of a little vomit

light is so good right now

arches

apologizing in advance to speakers of the other Romance languages, it appears that no matter how the conversation starts, within about 5 minutes max I will be responding with poorly conjugated French

6 flights in 9 days is just too many

boarding a trans-Atlantic flight with no wi-fi, I'm going to be so good at morse code again by the time I land

someone with a time machine, please tell past-ronnie that no matter how long the flight, i was never, ever, ever going to "work on the plane"

Ronnie all your toothpastes taste terrible

asking for trouble by leaving them next to each other

it took longer than I'd like to admit to figure out if "Connor Hellebuyck is the new Secretary of Defense" was a joke meme or just another sign of these interesting times we live in (yes, even after I saw a picture of him in his goalie pads)

casually playing Morse Toad on my ipad until the kid gets curious and steals it away from me (it worked)

buying a package of 200 popsicle sticks for $2.59 and setting it next to a glue stick, some tape, and some markers has been the best return on investment I've made all year

so does anyone know what to do if you get a tariff bill from fedex at this point

going to a fancy restaurant for a $$$ dinner and asking after the cheese course only to discover they're serving what i pack in my picnic spread

an unexpected gift from my bestie in Minnesota. the Midwestern accent is such a delight.

dressed so that strangers see me and wish me Happy New Year ✨👌👌👌

新年快乐🎊 马舞春风，万事如意! 🐎

sending Chinese New Year greetings in the US: Happy New Year, I hope you get rich! sending Chinese New Year greetings in China: a lyrical quatrain wishing you and your family good health, all your dreams fulfilled, a smooth journey through life, and every encounter filled with love and warmth

year of the horse giving us such abundant options for new year's greetings wordplay the year of instant gratification is upon us

please enjoy the shaggy sheepdog that the kiddo created this morning

am I too late for the "post a picture you can hear" meme?

extremely important news: the annual wait for Daisy mandarins is over!

my completionist son spent the entire day at the science museum from opening to closing and i need a nap so bad

what if we kissed at the magnetic sand exhibit

"my favorite kind of chicken is short rib"

very worried about Jeremy