God fucking damn it, we have Smol Bean on my partner’s insurance instead of mine because my work offers United Healthcare. Guess who her work just announced they’re switching to?

Man, i miss writing Ted Wheeler letters about how much he sucks. I guess i could start writing Dan Ryan letters but idk it just doesn’t sound like as much fun. :-/

Partner: i ordered the soups we wanted. Me: i already ordered them! Partner: now we have two soups! — The Gift of the Magi (2025)

Spent all morning prepping to present in a meeting only to have it cancelled with no reason 15 minutes beforehand and i am fuckin salty about it.

A weird design thing i just noticed: Online video and audio players don’t have stop buttons, only pause buttons.

If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.

A couple years ago i did a full, step-by-step “how to make a turducken” post on facebook, with pictures of every step of the gross process. They’re not hard, just time consuming, and they are *delicious*. If you’ve wanted to make one: www.facebook.com/share/17duYJ...

One the one hand its sad to see a long-running local brand die a sudden death, on the other hand their beer blew/contained chunks.

Alright. I’m happy with my Songs About Boats playlist now. Took a couple passes to get even the whiff of yacht rock out of it. Here are two different providers: open.spotify.com/playlist/6nN... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Back on my bullshit (showing up at a chili cookoff with hotdogs).

God i love this city. Gorgeous. Unstoppable. Unmatched.

Alright here’s what i’ve got so far, what should i add? I’m not puttin goddamn “i’m on a boat” on it. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Downeaster Alexa Barrett’s Privateers Sloop John B Wellerman Southern Cross Christian Island Bonnie Ship The Diamond Wooden Ships Fisherman’s Blues Orinoco Flow

I know i’m not really going out on a limb here, but i’m listening to a lot of Gordon Lightfoot today and he really is at his best when he’s writing about forms of transportation. Even his love songs that involve trains are better than the ones without.

if you're cool and you live in san francisco and your name is k wilson- your time is now

After a couple days of hippies not stealing those amanita muscarias under cover of night, i decided, hey, i’m hippie! But i grabbed some to make spore prints, because that’s more fun than gettin blitzed. I think i left them too long, but its still pretty.

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

Jesus christ one of my new teammates just casually mentioned he gave gab money in 2020 and showed off his “the media is the virus” t-shirt in a multi-person meeting. I cannot.

Some weird synthesis of the four in the bottom left corner. I guess i’m… well, not triangulating, more like quadrangulating on something.

I hope Schumer steps on a physical rake to match the metaphorical one he just smashed.

I missed skeeting for kickoff because i was holding a baby but GO THORNS!!!

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Drove all the way to gd mollalla to a gd dairy that claimed on their website to make butter from gd jersey cow milk and walked in to be told “oh we don’t sell butter” by a surly teen standing under a big sign that said BUTTER. Its ironic i wanted unsalted butter because I am gd SALTY rn.

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes] Finishing up some #Voyager space probe pendants in sterling silver today 🛰️ Two of these beauties are still unsold and will ship out quickly if you grab one: 🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...#BehindTheScenes]#Voyager🔭🧪🐡🎨

Its pretty easy to figure out, ever since Woke it’s impossible to get cattle into the ring.

I remember very little from reading James Watson’s memoir except he referred to his college hobby of “birdwatching” many, many times without describing any birds, and it took until maybe the third reference for me to realize he was laughing about being a creepy, creepy creeper.

“I, a leopard, would never have imagined that I would eat my own face.”

“We are pleased to announce the winners of our Mindfulness Competition” i’m sorry i just cannot with this right now

Cesar Chavez was quiet, does anyone know how the other schools fared?

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Tl;dr: PORK CHOP SANDWICHES! GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slightly tangential pitch: Western Watersheds put together a trespass cow tracking app/database. Next time you're hiking and find cattle shitting in a riparian area, you should tell them about it: www.westernwatersheds.org/cow-pie-pal-...

I dont know who this person is, i dont know why i was following them, but you might want to check and see if you are too, because jesus fuck Mamdani is really pulling the weirdos from the wings even on this site.

Since i’ve been offline, a vignette from yesterday: Me: *making formula at the sink* Partner: “did you hear Dick Cheney died?” Me: “huh” Me: … Me: “fuck him anyway”

One of our neighbor’s yards is just loaded with (i think) amanita muscaria!

I know we’re all reading the tea leaves around economic uncertainty so i just need to throw my newest anecdata into the ring - went to buy more bougie baby formula for Smol Bean and - amazon was out - target’s price had almost doubled with a six-day delivery lead - walmart still had it (phew)

Gawddamnnnnit

Three trick-or-treaters is a new low. We never get *that* many, but lawd. Sad.

I am overwhelmed, have way too much to do, have way too little time to do it in… but also managed to encourage this to grow, and i think i’m gonna run on this win for a while. 🌱

Wait I thought six was afraid of seven

“Are you wearing the-“ “The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”

I have not. Mostly I'm Team Elrond. I can't help it. It's the Higher Education Senior Manager in me. "Oh we're finally doing a project to address the shit i said was a massive fuck up ages ago. That's nice. No I won't lead it."

I should probably stop referring to the baby monitor as “MyFirst Surveillance State” shouldn’t I?

Corporate pushed a Teams update on Monday that bricked it on everyone’s phones, the Azure outage killed my home internet, i basically just got an unscheduled and unasked for day off, and I got SO MUCH DONE with it lol. One of the piles of stuff i cleaned up was legitimately older than my child 😹😹😹

Happy Weekly Global Internet Outage Day to all who celebrate! 🎉

Sautéed lions mane shrooms, shallots, and roasted garlic in the lobster mushroom infused oil and tossed tortellini in it, this is a strong “hell yeah” of a lunch.

This is an entirely unserious line of attack. The nursery school i went to - I’ve mentioned it here, the one with the bear trap room - was run by a Calvinist woman with a thick German accent who went by Aunt Esther. All the teachers went by Aunt or Uncle. This is nonsense.

Today, for the absolute first time in my career i got to have an introductory meeting with a vendor and opened with “we have a well-defined process for xxx” and told them how an integration would go. It is *remarkably* satisfying to dictate terms.

The skyline tonight is reminding me of the Flyers hockey playoff game that i listened to on the radio in like idk 1998 that went so many extra quarters that the reporters all missed their print deadlines and started drinking on the job, funniest hockey game i ever listened to.

1, but only because i’m not sure how to go about consuming a building. (Not a huge fan of liver or lima beans, tbf, but there are a couple variations on both I enjoy, and if i’m served something, i eat it (which is why i’ve eaten both maggot cheese and roadkill)).