My neighbour likes to keep her apartment door open so her cat can sit in the hallway and judge us.

Making some Broken Log Flume for a snack* *Nutella and cashews on celery sticks

I'm enjoying Third-Winter even less than Second-Winter.

10th read of 2026: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Mixed feelings on this; A richly detailed tale of friendship & growth, but often so dense and tedious it felt like a chore. Beautifully written, no question, but I struggled to get on its wavelength. Should I try the next one? #booksky

9th read of 2026 - Enshittification by Cory Doctorow A fascinating, and revealing exploration of the abysmal state of technology we're all experiencing day to day. A slice of sanity in an insane world. Informative, funny, and oddly hopeful. #booksky

I reject all smart appliances. I refuse to update firmware for a toaster. A blender doesn't need WiFi. A fridge with social media access is insanity.

Got a three word email yesterday. AI asks me if I want it to summarize the email.

Was that a different John or original John? Did John get married? Do men change their last names when they get married? SIRI !! Do men have maiden names!? ALEXA ! Same question. GOOGLE! Feel free to jump in here!! ANYONE?

Big ol' thunderstorm rolling through. I'm sitting near a window but luckily I don't have any metal fillings.

I believe a group of them is called an asthma. An Asthma of Pugs.

I have a neighbor with three pugs, and when she's taking them out it sounds like a herd of pigs getting off the elevator

Sorry I was late. I had what doctors refer to as a 'bathroom dilemma'.

I can’t believe the world’s most famous liar lied again

The seventh month of winter is always the hardest

I pack Nutella for every single trip I make regardless of how far it is, or how historic.

When it happens I'm going to break both arms and possibly my neck doing my first cartwheel in 30 years.

Buying a third, diagonal monitor.

Oh fun. The SECOND global supply chain crisis of the decade.

Maybe they're going to the moon because the astronauts rightfully want to get away from earth #NASA

I paid over $5 a gallon for gas today and it felt great. Don't know what all the bitching is about. That's my country I'm paying for. I sprayed some around the parking lot 'cause that's my goddamned right. Jesus DIED for this price. I fuckin' drank some. What? WHAT???

I’m sure there won‘t be any adverse health effects from enduring a solid decade of unrelenting stress. LATER: *all millennials drop dead mysteriously at 50*

Some green tea and a sweet red bean bun will turn this day around

The war on affordable gas prices has been a resounding success

All Walmart greeters are now ICE agents

Still blown away how while everything is getting more and more expensive we let every store get away with making us pay for a fucking bag.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Ate too many crackers and now I’m too full for dinner

Ginkgo Biloba is my favourite Lord of the Rings character.

At this rate I'm going to have to stop drinking gasoline altogether

I don't think they print *winning* Roll Up the Rim cups anymore. They're just messing with us at this point.

8th read of 2026: Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe Well, damn. This short novel starts as a portait of grief and twists into one of the creepiest tales of a haunting I've ever read. Unpredictable and dark as hell. #booksky

Bought a weighted pillow to get a little arm workout in the middle of the night flipping it for the cool side.

They pay me to tolerate these poorly written emails.

Every time I use ChatGPT to draft an email, a tree bursts into flames somewhere

The price of gas is going up? I sure hope we didn't build our entire society around suburban sprawl, which shaped all our land use, transportation spending, and even lifestyle around car ownership.

*setting up board game* Hope you guys are okay with this off-brand Settlers of Manhattan

As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.

Sorry. I meant to send you the production report, but instead I attached a 40 minute video of a snail eating a strawberry. Apologies again.

Daylight Saving is part of a nation-building project called "We're all Tired ... Together!"

7th read of 2026: Holly by Stephen King Not terrible by any stretch but one of the weaker King novels I've read. The last 3rd was satisfying and won me over, but you could safely trim 100 pages from this. #booksky

This "let's infuse everything with protein" health trend has become annoying. Please stop.

Seems like America is having no issues killing or kidnapping the leaders of other countries. Very reassuring, said everyone on earth. No worries there.

They're going to release a Pokemon game where the only objective it to feed your Pokemon snacks and dress them in outfits and it's going to sell 7 billion copies.

Looks like I have 4 business days to make an offer for Warner Bros. *fingers flicking through wallet filled with receipts and expired coupons*

The impact of the loss of USAID Mortality: up to 14 million preventable deaths globally by 2030, with 700,000+ additional annual child deaths Health: Over 95 million people to lose access to basic healthcare, with significant rises in malaria, TB, and child malnutrition deaths

Thanks to AI I've outsourced all my tiresome thinking to the machine. Now I have more leisure time to gaze vacantly at stuff.

Incredibly late to the party but I've been enjoying the hell out of Skyrim. This is masterclass adventuring.

There's no handbook for raising cats. You just do the best you can every day. Unlike parenting, about which thousands of books have been written, leaving little room for uncertainty.

6th read of 2026: Strange Pictures by Uketsu Initially just as odd and intriguing as Strange Houses, but by the end I just didn't care about the improbable solutions or the simplistic characters inside this overly explained logic puzzle. A fun mystery concept I wish was executed better. #booksky

Professor Knuckle's Miracle Ketchup Elixir will put the pep in your step, the sparkle in your smile, and the mash in your potatoes