went skiing for the first time in ~20 years today. my dad is too old and gave me all his gear, and i felt obligated to capitalize on the bounty. i’ve come the the mountain alone, so my big fear is suffering a debilitating injury and being unable to drive home. but so far so good.

painting 900 financial instruments by hand

extreeeeemely suspicious situations developing

family tradition when ya go to Chicago

the flowers of romance.. mere rubbish?

90s Corolla with big tires looks very cool

chilly shadow

i’ll always take the option to limber up, if offered

Hannah Frank, Frame by Frame

building video that doesn’t show the building. my grievances are valid

soup’s on!

up early on a Sunday to deal with a burst pipe way down in NYC. at least stuff looks cool outside

hornets basketball court looks like some kind of challenge/experiment to find the least appealing shade of blue

Jellybean Row!

exciting week for the commute

that’s my jug of utz hards

cold wind off the river made me cry and then froze my tears in place

my big jar of pretzels is waning

in like 1996 my brother got a carhartt jacket for christmas, I think for Nas reasons, and my uncle made fun of him so bad for wanting to dress up like an electrician

love to punch a hole through a snowplow berm and then come back the next day to see that it has been adopted by the public and trampled flat

disabled train at the station, but it’s between the river and the platform so it’s a nice windbreak

wish i had a mudroom so bad rn

cute little tug chuggin under storm king

this guy on the train has a lush midi arrangement of coldplay’s clocks as his ringtone

got a big cramp in the arch of my foot bc i thought it would be cool to ride a furniture dolly on my knees, to get across freshly mopped linoleum w/o leaving footprints

i’m healthy and energized of this place

switching the tv backlight scene from Relax to Cozy

lashing in

had a weird ‘pre-dream’ where in order to fall asleep I had to fill an imaginary void by mentally combining scaffold components w/ known volumes. anyway i couldn’t fall asleep bc i kept feverishly thinking “i wonder if she is building her sleep scaffold out of the same components as me”

sliced my thumb with the bagel knife, out of bandaids.

moon looks cool and fun-loving irl

forced to learn all my vertebrae by name so i can find the right pain relief exercises.

oh no a european hates me. is it novak djokovic again

there’s a big tanker on the river

cold out there lately

A question many readers have asked after reading "Evil Up Close: The Rise of the Triarchy and the End of the 100 Year Peace" is "couldn't you have done more as one of the Triarchs?" But you have to understand that 33% is not a lot of all the power to have, and I had some anxiety at the time.

where the neons toin to would

trying on random safety gear lying around the warehouse

some very large wasp corpses are accumulating in the base of our mysterious 20’ tall bronze monolith.

one time a charter bus driver took us to a casino in Lawrenceburg, IN instead of Cincinnati (work outing) and when we said “this is the wrong casino, and the wrong state” she was very adamantly like “but this is a casino”

pretending i’m brushing a horse when i clear the snow and ice off the van

it takes one week of vacation to make me nice and two weeks of work to make me mean

i get super self conscious abt my pronation when it snows out

my friend is playing ffviii and getting into triple triad, but he won’t heed my warnings about rule promulgation and it’s stressing me out so much

t shirt and rainjacket style snow today

fresh tracks club

if you don’t know abt shooting the shit with your neighbors yet, or if you’re worried you don’t have enough material, walking around town (safely!) in the snow is a great way to pick up observations that you can report as news, and basically everyone you encounter has to at least say hi to you

snowy out here in the suburbs. take caution

bringing tupperware to the deli