I have spent the week in some of the most beautiful parts of the Rockies. And. I cannot wait a single second more to get back to the people of the East Coast.

Of all the places to finally meet @mikesager.net in person, who could have predicted it would be in Casa Bonita in Lakewood, Colorado?

My hometown library had a really cool cafe in the entry/lobby area. I spent hours there as a teen - I’d get books for studying, pop over to the cafe and get a smoothie or latte, and work for hours. My retired dad probably spent even more time there. Just…a thought I’m trying to manifest here.

“This game glamorizes life in Florida to such an outrageous extent that it’s easy to see how young minds could be fooled into thinking that relocating to the Sunshine State wouldn’t be the worst decision they ever made,” said activist Marcie Escobedo

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Shockingly good visual summary of the type of people @kylereardon.bsky.social and I are

Time for me to tap the signs again:

I’m gonna go hit the midwestern dad pose on the porch real quick.

It will never not blow my mind that Salesforce is considered a serious product.

ACPS don’t start a communications crisis challenge level: impossible

Excuse the privacy-based close crop, but omg DASH bus 🥰🫶

West End, Best End

ALX Hive: my 19 year old brother is going to be living with us thru at least the fall and we’re looking for work for him. He’s currently working in a rec center and anything in parks or gyms would probably be a great fit. Bonus for metro/bus accessible. Anybody got a good idea here?

Give Ryan money pls

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

Players to their DM at the end of every D&D campaign:

I cackled loud enough to scare the people next to me in call your mother when I saw that Pulte news.

Pinpoint when I left the walkable city:

I am about to unlock free subway rides and my silly lil’ transit heart can’t handle it.

Staring at this sign as I order my noodles to go feeling like I’ve committed a crime

I know a few of you here are in Alexandria Choral Society. LMK who you are?

I feel like my ALX people will have an answer to this insane question: are the firetruck sirens more European sounding these days?

A stunning new development!

Reading “suck it, car user, bike mafia gets what it wants” is making my stupid sticker brain unnecessarily twitchy this morning

It’s really very annoying that my kids don’t think city council live streams are fun entertainment. Submitted my comments ahead of time and very grateful for all the people filling in the news gaps online today.

I’m realizing that Bike to Work Day is a great time to share this sticker that @kylereardon.bsky.social designed: port-city-shirts.printify.me/product/2865...

Sitting here with my two whole children who had the audacity to be born in the past

I support efforts, in theory, to apolitically draw our districts. But, surprise, snatching all my income and my healthcare out of my hands and the hands of all my friends changed my praxis.

Looking at those 260 unreported Fairfax county precincts like I’m watching a piano being lifted to a high floor of an apartment building in a vintage cartoon.

Loudoun is over 90% including all of early vote and mail Above the 60-40 margin needed for a comfortable Yes win Will take a while for an official call But this looks like a redo of the 2025 AG race Shy Yes voters were a thing

Just gonna do ctrl+f “loudoun” until something happens

Truly insane the amount of money wasted on marketing to me this election

Hurricane NANA?

The cognitive dissonance between walking out of the Florence and the Machine opener and seeing a stadium ad for “beef” can’t be accurately described

Oh god, I just got my first ever email from PowerSchool. Should I be scared?

If I was opening one of the most impactful, beautiful, and collaborative affordable housing developments in the city, I might try to talk about it every once in a while? I might post construction updates and pictures from the roof and vignettes about the people involved.

I’ve been able to watch and share so much of this Artemis II journey with my four year old, and tonight I said “do you want to watch the spaceship come back to earth?” And she dropped every toy she had to cuddle up on me and see it happen. The awe and the wonder has been such a gift.

It takes place in ALX?

I alone would consume 43 cups of coffee on this ten day mission, put me in space as an experiment

Helen was, aside from her obvious skill, always just the nicest person to interact with at Housing (which is a tough battle when you also had Eric there, back in my day.) She wrote me a card when my eldest was born that had me in tears. A well deserved retirement.

Local friends - in your opinion, what's the best events calendar for local activities? Pulse checking a group conversation at work.

I told my daughter we were going to the garden center, and you would have thought I told her she was seeing N*Sync in 2002.

For the first time in a long time, we had a really big travel calendar year come up. I said “February? Nah, that’s too early to book tickets to anything.” Reader, I messed up what the heck is with these airfare prices.

My daughter just said “my mind fell apart” to explain why she didn’t use soap while washing her hands and, honestly? Girl I get it.

Oh my god this is gonna be a mess

My kids woke up this morning, after a 75 degree evening spent playing with a water table, desperate to go outside and continue the fun. Which I ruined for them by showing them the cold rain. It’s just annoying that *I* am the bad guy in this situation.

All the solar panel chatter has me thinking about an old question: Any recommendations for anything that isn’t a full-on solar roof but could help you charge a few devices? I had something like this once that was supposed to support a cell phone, about 10 years ago, and it was a piece of junk.

I spent a warm and comfortable 90 minutes outside building my new planter! Which was the exact length of time as my stomach-sick son’s nap and now he’s back up demanding graham crackers again and maybe I should have just gamed instead.