Conducting a general cleaning of my office, and it's incredible how many things you come across. Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac (run Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on your Macintosh!), Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, VMware Fusion 4, Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 Home & Business... the list goes on!

Take me back to this past weekend’s pool session 🥲

Happy Pride from the LeDroit Park neighborhood archway! 🌈

Post a photo from 2019, you say? 🤔

Frustrating when you try to be strategic with your public library holds (for me this is via the @libbyapp.com) but then your careful planning goes out the window when two or three books all become available for you simultaneously.

Managed to pull this guy out of my very first Paradox Drive pack!

Eating a Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese griddlecake sandwich at five o’clock in the afternoon. AMA.

My Stonewall DC bocce league team finished out the regular season 4-4! All that’s left is the close-out tournament next Saturday!

One thing I find really annoying is how concert venues don't transparently advertise a show's ticket price. "VIP Tickets Available Now: All Things Go DC 2026!" Yeah, that's great, but could you have also just included how much those tickets are going to cost in that same marketing email?

From term limits for justices to cameras in the courtroom, here are six reforms that would help rebuild public trust in the Supreme Court: bit.ly/4dbN1qI

Wyna no 😖

Felt a terrible sensation on my tongue and realized that it was probably an errant strand of hair. I started to try and get it with no luck and ended up with my fingers covered in saliva. I had to get up and go to the bathroom and try to get it off. I’m sure you’re beyond thrilled reading this.

Who just knocked over a mug full of scalding hot water all over their desk, soaking everything in the deluge's path? This guy!

If anyone ever tells you that changing out your car’s windshield wipers with J-hooks is easy, don’t believe them! 😵‍💫

I've been helping a friend out, acting as an advanced reader for their first novel. I reallyyy need to sack up and finish reading the latest assignment before the next discussion session this Saturday afternoon!

The Iran War has cost $25 billion so far, Jules Hurst tells the House Armed Services Committee. Hurst is acting Under Secretary of Defense and CFO. First time a top DOD official has put a price tag on this, after weeks of Trump officials dodging the Q.

When you finish up something at 01:30 am, and now you're still wired and not sleepy at all 😵‍💫

Finally decided to call my own bluff and just throw away the flour I bought at the beginning of the COVID lockdown since I will never actually make my own bread in my kitchen. 🤦‍♂️

When your entire apartment building’s HVAC system went down three weeks ago and it’s now 80° F, even with all of your windows open, inside of your bedroom.

Today I went to The Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle to see their “Miró and the United States” special exhibition! I also learned that Alexander Calder and Joan Miró were such close friends that Calder made a wire mobile of Miró’s likeness and gave it to him as a gift!

Stumbled upon the infamous Georgetown Transformers sculptures while walking through the neighborhood today! I’m usually never in this part of town and I’d never actually seen them in person before!

Love nothing more than receiving a bill in the mail for my visit to the hospital emergency department two weeks ago plus needing to pay for four new tires and wheel alignment on the same day. 💸

Zoro: When the rudder is fixed, I’ll use this to poke that big punching bag-looking thing on the roof of his mouth. Nami: The uvula? Zoro: … Zoro: So it’s a girl whale. #OnePiece

I recently joined a bocce league and tonight I’m supposed to meet team members for the first time but no one really committed to actually showing up. 😓

This group text was really going through it this afternoon. It was probably the 7th name change in 24 hours by this point!

A story told in two photos:

Happy Birthday, @virtualjustin.bsky.social 🥳

Was the little boy that Bad Bunny gave the Grammy award to Liam Conejo Ramos??

That Bad Bunny halftime show was great!

Just turned on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. I’ll just say that, so far, it’s no French death metal shredding from the Conciergerie on the banks of the Seine during an epic rain storm.

Spent an hour in the cold tonight (majority of it walking to and from Union Market) trying to help a friend jumpstart the dead battery in their car. It’s been so cold recently that the hood has frozen to the body of the car! We were trying to pry it open w/ an ice scraper with absolutely no luck. 🥲😅

My (almost!) 3-year old nephew insisted on giving me these for Christmas. I don’t have the heart to get rid of them, but what on earth am I going to do with eight ugly dolls in my apartment?? 😩

@aussie-himbo.bsky.social reporting his second-tier children

Thank you for my once-a-year cappuccino, @onlydans.bsky.social! ☕️ (Celebrity guest appearance inside of his own home by @aussie-himbo.bsky.social)

Finally took down and put away all of the Christmas decorations inside of my apartment. Please clap.

It turns out I participated in the ten-year challenge back in 2016, so here is me in 2006 (left) and then 2016 (right).

Negroni

A friend suggested that I give The StoryGraph another try. It’s an app similar to Goodreads but without the concerns associated with incorporating more of your life/data into an Amazon-controlled ecosystem. Do other Bluesky book readers have experience with it? app.thestorygraph.com/profile/virt...

About last night. Happy new year, everyone!

Hey if you haven't seen it! youtu.be/GvCmeuJyT9g?...

I managed to read 31 books this year. Most were from @foreignaffairs.com’s Best of 2024 list that they released last December. With few exceptions (I’m primarily looking at you, “What Is Queer Food” 😒), I enjoyed or loved every book I mashed to get through in 2025!

Hello, idiopathic subconjunctival hemorrhage. 👁️

spotted on the nats 2026 giveaway calendar. lock in

Ungh this woman sitting a row ahead of me on my Amtrak from DC to NYC is coughing uncontrollably and wearing a face mask. 😷 🤧 🤒

Whenever I have to go out of town on a trip, I can never manage to fall asleep.

Thinking so much about how every client's wishlist was physical or financial, and no one asked for someone kind, loving, sensitive, or funny. Those qualities are the most enduring in a partner. Bodies and careers change a lot faster than personalities do.

A woman just stopped by my office and gave me a dozen cupcakes and a Bundt cake “just because!” 😦 Shoutout to the Severna Park “Nothing Bundt Cakes” location for their generosity!

It's been well over twenty years, and this will probably make absolutely zero sense to anyone else except me, but I just thought about when a classmate of mine misunderstood the word "烟" for "秘密" and was asking around the bar if anyone had any that they could give him, to super confused stares.

So “Heated Rivalry” is actually good (so far) 👀