Archive (Page 10) • thank you notes • Buttondown

frosting in all its forms

July 20, 2023

1. frosted mini wheats cereal. as with poptarts, can't imagine ever wanting the unfrosted version (thankful for frosting in all its forms). ran out of...

i have to live my truth

July 19, 2023

1. transform functions in CSS, which really helped me yesterday when I needed to push pixels to get elements of a component i redesigned situated right....

my favorite quick meal to make

July 18, 2023

1. my favorite quick meal to make myself (for lunch or dinner, but i'm having it for lunch this week), and is to start two pieces of diced thick-cut bacon...

and then i almost immediately said "$10,000"

July 16, 2023

at craft night, as we drank the great bottle of natural-ish wine that ec brought, hm asked whether deborah and i had tried the esther perel card game that...

vinegar-based hot sauce

July 12, 2023

1. it was fine that i didn't finish my project before the end of the sprint and i made a lot of really good progress yesterday that made me happy. i let...

cf previous items

July 11, 2023

1. i'm thankful that i didn't work any (more) overtime last night to try to get my big project done before the sprint ended even though i "wanted" to (thanks...

in the halo of the moment

July 9, 2023

1. doing molly with deborah yesterday. we've started spending the day doing it together on a saturday at the beginning of every quarter (this was our Q3...

it didn't rain

July 6, 2023

talked to jkha for the first time in a long time (facetiming while she and her daughter ate indian food at an outdoor table) and felt so very happy to hear...

unlocked 4 of the 5 locks without looking

July 5, 2023

summer fridays started at work and will go through august. the five-day "weekend": eating late tapas by the river in perfect weather for t's birthday....

such a good song to karaoke

July 1, 2023

1. "making the band (danity kane)" by earl sweatshirt. earl is one of my favorite rappers forever, but some of the choices in his more recent music feel...

having to wait for the marshmallow

June 27, 2023

1. on saturday while deborah went to the farmer's market (i'm thankful that i didn't have to go to the farmer's market and she got to go with ec and v and...

i could just piggyback

June 24, 2023

1. began untangling a complicated and time-consuming code thing that i had a general idea of how i was going to do but not a specific one at the end of the...

bong rip followed by a kumquat

June 23, 2023

1. bong rip followed by a kumquat. finishing a joint before eating a cara cara orange popsicle deborah made. we have the liquid left over from macerated...

meeting of the week

June 22, 2023

1. meeting with two coworkers was scheduled for a half hour and we ended up going an hour and a half and i didn't mind at all and afterward they told me it...

especially the ending

June 20, 2023

1. the poem "more windows" by fred moten, which i saw yesterday on the instagram of tom snarsky, a poet who posts a lot of great poetry all the time. i love...

my favorite person in the world

June 18, 2023

i'm thankful that this weekend deborah and i will have been married for eight years. i'm thankful that our relationship is forever getting better, that each...

first great watermelon of the summer

June 16, 2023

1. first great watermelon of the summer2. it's friday and i don't have any meetings and permission to ignore slack for the day. 3. listening to nicole byer's...

i'm thankful that other people like the work of cormac mccarthy

June 15, 2023

1. i'm thankful that other people like the work of cormac mccarthy and that i am not required to do so (since i never really have, despite trying a number of...

i finally understood the root cause

June 14, 2023

1. i'm thankful that the landscapers that the property management company dealt with a lot of the yard maintenance tasks we couldn't easily do ourselves,...

top or bottom

June 13, 2023

1. the way that every time at the outset of having to put the fitted sheet on the bed the task of putting the fitted sheet on the bed, in my mind, is so...