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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...

waking up before my alarm

June 13, 2023

1. regularly waking up before my alarm and going back to sleep because of sunlight seeping in through the windows—this summer, it's usually waking up at 6:30...

everyone reacted with laughter

June 9, 2023

1. nachos for dinner (my preferred nachos are very minimal just chips and baked-on cheese(s) i do not like them to be "loaded" (nor do i like this for french...

little pink tablets of generic benadryl

June 8, 2023

1. little pink tablets of generic benadryl, the most important drug for this time of the year. also, thinking i was out of weed (second most important drug)...

ultimatum

June 7, 2023

1. when i told my manager in my 1:1 that i felt like i had lost my credibility because of my bug, she tried to reassure me by saying again that this bug...

dried strawberries

June 6, 2023

1. started monday morning finding out i shipped a bad bug at work last week and felt so ughhhhhhhhhh but everyone was very nice about it and i was able to...

my ideal ripeness

June 6, 2023

1. the banana i had in my cereal this morning, which was at ~3.5 on the ripeness scale, my ideal ripeness.2. as previously reported a large part of our...

recited as catechism

June 1, 2023

1. a large bag of dried mango from costco, the egg sandwiches deborah makes with pandesal, haribo gummy bears, cinnamon life cereal, sharp cheddar cheese,...

almost any fruit cold from the refrigerator

June 1, 2023

1. the rose bush in our back yard has started blooming. that though roses are not typically a flower deborah (who cares deeply about flowers) cares about,...

the characters of succession, if they were all dogs

May 31, 2023

1. another day of not working (and one more tomorrow, and then starting the week when for everyone else it's on the downslope)2. making s'mores on the stove...

with chocolate-dipped paletas

May 29, 2023

1. went to k and t's and sat in their backyard with ec in perfect weather drinking margaritas with pellet ice and hard kombucha and eating fresh pineapple...

without me noticing probably as i went off on some long monologue about something

May 28, 2023

1. went out for korean food with deborah and ec at this tiny restaurant that was very good. among other things (rose tteokbokki (which i am not usually a fan...

what europeans in different countries say to someone who leaves the door open after coming in

May 26, 2023

1. at work, i lurk in the java engineer channel despite not being a java engineer because i just really personally like a lot of the java engineers, who are...