Glad I took Monday off, although I do need to be back by dinner. Current plan is to leave Sunday afternoon and possibly snag a hotel outside Des Moines. May leave Sunday morning and take 90 to 29 instead. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving thread dedicated to giving back to Native people. If your holiday is truly not about celebrating genocide, then show your thanks in a real way. Also check #SettlerSaturday. Natives, post any needs or art below.

I think I'm officially too old for "sweatshirt and beanie when it's 30F and windy."

Will have to watch this later. My exposure to her came through her co-hosting That Curling Show. She was so vibrant! Also, I have a clip somewhere of Dunstone making an impressive shot in 2019ish and I'm pretty sure it's Colleen who said "I think this kid's fer real!"

on the one hand social media is horrible on the other hand I have learned about the phenomenon that is articulated buses getting stuck in a roundabout in Norway so 🤷‍♀️

I loved That Curling Show, and read the whole article in their voices. 💞 Feels fitting that I missed reading it in real time because I was working at a hospitality house for cancer patients.

Definitely here to brag, one of my friends texted me that they're using the baby blanket I gave them in their Christmas card photos. There is little that makes me feel as good as seeing one of the blankets I've made being used. 🧶

Correction: You 🥌

Someone at my 2nd job asked me last night if I like working my 1st job, and the answer was "No." Then I overslept and came to work to find an email *finally* giving us an update about open enrollment. I'm about to leave a glassdoor review.

Talk about a pinball shot!

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

We had an update at work last night. I got to work at 8:35. Wasn't able to load the page to clock in until 8:51. It is now 9:22 and I still haven't been able to open up the homepage.

It's cool that Papio LaVista has 12 letters and all, but is this really a good choice?

Took a bike ride in Sioux Falls to visit my friend David. #WhimsicalWednesday

When Team USA did a bio for the women's curling team one year and said one of them liked to drive fast, I flashed back to the time she gave me a ride to the rink to catch the bus for an away game and we almost got T-boned by my bf on his way to work because she was going so fast.

Ughhhhh....... I'm supposed to be doing laundry right now!

I spent so much time ringing the cowbell for Team Casper this weekend that I actually gave myself a sore. Worth it.

Dang it! I forgot to get a picture of the time clock. They were down to 1:28 by the time Plys was throwing his 2nd.

Loving the way Team Casper communicates with each other.

Bonus: my seats are in front of some locals who have never really curled and influenced me to hit up The Nutty Bavarian stand on the concourse. Absolutely no regrets.

Everyone who gets to watch curling tonight

Everyone who watched curling tonight

It's one of those mornings where it's cold in the shade, hot in the sun, and too windy to take a 2 foot inflatable duck to the top of an observation tower.

Curling stone colors are 1, 2, 3, Red, yellow, and blue

One more hour, and then I get FIVE days off!

Excited to visit the one in Sioux Falls (Brandon) tomorrow!

I'm rewatching the Leverage commentaries, and I've lost count of how many times they said a variant of "the version we ripped from the headline is worse."

Turns out the ambient curling noise masked some neighborhood fireworks well enough that the dogs weren't bothered. (Until we muted to make sure that's what we were hearing.) So that's information to have.

My poor roommate is stuck listening to ME provide commentary on a game.

It seems like the more attention I pay to this curling game, the worse Team Casper does.

Too bad I have a day job.

It’s Veterans Day & a disabled Native Veteran hasn’t been paid this month causing her bank account to go in the negative. Anything helps for groceries! #VeteransDay

I remember talking to a woman who was surprised that a bank would not issue a 2nd mortgage to her 90 y/o mother. "I don't get it! She has good credit."

"It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in." Well said, fellow American.

The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham

Every time I hear the old adage about how often a broken clock is right, I think about every clock I've had that either ran fast or slow. (We had to adjust our living room clock every couple of months.) Technically broken, yet never right.

*brings a first aid kit to a knife fight*

Who set an alarm for a ten minute snooze at 8 pm, and then woke up at 1 am? Oh, I don't know, maybe the same person who has been averaging just under 5 hours a night for the last week. See also: me

When someone literally says "I'm kind of mean" I feel like the only response is "yeah, I can tell."

When Covid took over, a Unitarian friend of mine pointed out that the Pope was a former biochemist and the LDS prophet was a world renowned heart surgeon. Within the last six months, they have each been succeeded by a law expert who lived in Chicago in the 1960s.

I got to write my abbreviation for Mutual of Omaha: MofO #everyoneis12

Not my dorky ass seeing this as a curling rock at first look 🥌🙃 Alt text in comments due to character limit

My favorite funeral story is from my Grandma's burial. The car with my dad, my 2 sisters and I were the last of the family group to follow the hearse to the cemetery. Very rural, very small. (Less than 300 plots, no doubt.)

Its gonna be a while before I can find words about this.

My ducks in a row. Although two of them have skipped town and one has a neck injury.

My email doppelganger friends will be happy. I think. I hope. Haven't heard from them in a while. Hope Carol is okay. She's at least stopped giving my email as hers.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

As I'm pondering how to go about daily work/life routines admid the chaos, I recall that I was in high school in WI during 9/11. And we continued to hold class. Some teachers allowed the tv on if there was one in the room, and some allowed students to excuse themselves from class if needed.

More info about Marta Leiva, the woman I witnessed being assaulted by plainclothed men in the SLC airport last week. She has a work permit legal through 2029, mom of 4 with sick kids: www.ksl.com/article/5139... You can donate to her gofundme for legal expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/apoya-madr...