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10/30/19
October 30, 2019
i'm thankful for the slack bot we have at work which, ever half hour or so, finds the most recent "great" rating that someone on our team has received from a...
10/29/19
October 29, 2019
i'm thankful that the endlessness of my gmail archive means that i have the email where someone we went to grad school with shared a recipe for this...
10/28/19
October 28, 2019
i'm thankful i have been doing these more regularly lately, since i think it's helpful for me. i'm thankful that when we moved, our benefits provider...
10/27/19
October 27, 2019
i'm thankful for falling asleep on the couch.i'm thankful for how miso functions as an alarm clock every morning, even though sometimes on the weekend i wish...
10/26/19
October 26, 2019
i'm thankful that i didn't get either too cold or too sweaty on my half hour ride to the cafe for the monthly coworking day for our city, though it was a...
10/25/19
October 25, 2019
i'm thankful for when i'm playing tug of war with miso and i let my end go and she briefly rears back and celebrates by whipping her neck around to flurry...
10/24/19
October 24, 2019
i'm thankful that though yesterday wasn't as good of a day as the two previous days, there were still good things about it nonetheless.i'm thankful that the...
10/23/19
October 23, 2019
i'm thankful that for some reason miso was in a good mood yesterday evening and, while we sat on the couch after dinner, she nestled between us and let us...
10/22/19
October 22, 2019
i'm thankful to snag a few minutes before i work out and then go to work to write some thank you notes.i'm thankful, since i was lazy on the weekend and...
11/15
October 16, 2019
i'm thankful that i beat my tetris high score this morning on the treadmill i'm thankful that there will be extra episodes of my politics podcasts for my run...
10/14
October 15, 2019
i'm thankful for rice and how easy a rice cooker makes it to cook rice, something i used to fuck up often enough to hate cooking rice and thus prejudice me...
10/13
October 13, 2019
i'm thankful that last night i made an easy salad and baked sweet potato matchsticks (illegal to call them fries when baked) to go with our leftover fried...
10/11
October 11, 2019
i'm thankful that i didn't have to go to work yesterday and i don't have to go to work today and then it's the weekend so i don't have to go to work those...
10/2
October 3, 2019
today's issue of e's new newsletter lists, which is a list of recurring dreams, first bad ("Suddenly remembering I was supposed to care for a friend's pet or...
9/25
September 25, 2019
a bad leaf of spinach from a package of mixed greens, which may have a few telltale dark spots you would have noticed if you were paying closer attention but...
9/24
September 24, 2019
d always has a bandaid ready when i cut myself, after decades of life where i made do with nothing or scotch taping a paper towel over a wound miso came and...
9/23
September 23, 2019
that my new phone has google assistant on it, even though that is a dystopian thing that i should probably turn off soon, and that yesterday d and i were...
9/22
September 22, 2019
pizza party on friday night at kh's with all my best fronds before s went back to australiathat the pizza i ordered in advance came late, which built some...
9/20
September 20, 2019
yesterday wasn't as bad as i had envisionedit's fucking friday thank godpoke delivery for dinner and miso's joy in licking out our containers when we...
9/19
September 19, 2019
back to starting every morning feeling a huge amount of dread, which i'm not thankful for, but i am thankful to think back to just a few weeks ago when that...
9/17
September 18, 2019
on the last day of the company retreat i sat on a balcony with a friend talking about the emojis most associated with different people and he said mine was...
9/3
September 4, 2019
not feeling guilty when i don't do these, just feeling glad when i dofeel behind because i didn't work on monday, yet still glad i didn't work on...
9/2
September 3, 2019
not working
8/29
August 30, 2019
lying on the hardwood living room floor without any lights on looking up at the ceiling and listening to d’s resequencing of lover...
8/29 (2)
August 30, 2019
and then realizing that ALSO lana’s new album is out now (https://open.spotify.com/album/5XpEKORZ4y6OrCZSKsi46A?si=4YEhWKpRRF-NAFm-XsCQFg) and immediately...
8/28
August 29, 2019
dms with k and a set of instructions from the kind engineer unblocked a problem i’d been stuck in for weekswrote some good codebachelor in paradisemango sorbet
8/27
August 28, 2019
i’ve gotten to focus and accomplish something i can be proud of more days than less latelyair conditioning in our bedroom on a 95 degree daymiso is too tired...
8/26
August 26, 2019
a fun TV party at e's apartment where i wore lounge ware realizing you can get mcdonalds delivered, sandwiches made from glazed donuts, cheese, and...
8/22
August 23, 2019
the video for "lover" by taylor swift (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo), which, in its sickly sweet disposable plastic candy take on a small and...
8/21
August 22, 2019
on one of the multiple times a day where, while in an absent-minded fugue state, i put my phone or kindle or water or glasses somewhere and then it becomes...
8/20
August 21, 2019
that taylor swift song from yesterday still (also "looking for america" by lana del rey)metafilter link roundup about "secondary edible parts" for various...
8/19
August 20, 2019
miso had a bath and it's always cute to see a wet dog, how transformed they are by the simplest of elements, and that we penned her out on the back deck...
8/18
August 19, 2019
jillian by halle butler, which i read in one sitting in bed this morning and which is so hilariously agonizingly real
8/15
August 16, 2019
new issue of famous people (https://famouspeople.substack.com/p/famous-people-47-join-or-die) a great time in the best weathermiso is getting better at...
8/14
August 15, 2019
last night at dinner we were ready to watch this week's bachelor in paradise and it seemed that the last two working HDMI ports on the tv had finally gone...
8/13
August 13, 2019
did a load of laundry, filled up my pill organizer for the week, wrote some unit tests for a new feature i'm working onshrimp scampi leftovers, plums and...
8/11
August 12, 2019
the mosquito bite inside my belly button stopped itchinga haircut in a folding chair in the kitchen on a saturday morningthere's so much sidewalk around...
8/12
August 12, 2019
waking up next to d every day
8/9
August 10, 2019
didn't wake up filled with dread todaymade and deployed my first code change on our production codebase (even if it was just adding a string to an array, i...
8/7
August 8, 2019
talking about the simpsons with my friends and being reminded of this bit, which is making me roll with giggleshttps://youtu.be/a_VTvQLAfaE
8/8
August 8, 2019
for david berman, who died yesterday ( https://pitchfork.com/news/david-berman-silver-jews-purple-mountains-dead-at-52/ ) and whose music and poetry have...
8/6
August 7, 2019
every time we meet a new neighbor as soon as the conversation is over i write down their name in my notes app along with what house they live in so that i...
8/5
August 6, 2019
d was great as she always is when i have a panic attack about workthe day at work was better than i had expected, even though there were some frustrating...
8/4
August 5, 2019
not having a garbage disposal anymore isn't so badfrequently asking d questions about whether i can compost certain things, including, most recently "can i...
8/3
August 4, 2019
friend's birthday party at another friend's housevaried, comfortable, and plentiful party seating optionswell-kept shag carpetplaying with a friendly...
8/1
August 2, 2019
i had oatmeal for breakfast with jam and diced peaches stirred inour new microwave has a "start/30 seconds" that works even if there's not currently any time...
7/31
August 1, 2019
e came over and met miso and then we went to dinner with her partnerwhen we were discussing grain percentage in dog food, a topic i just recently googled for...
7/29
July 30, 2019
to have learned from our tv box that "lunette" is the french word for 3d glasses, maybe because of the half-moon shape of the lensesbreeze through a window...
7/27
July 28, 2019
expensive donuts for dinner
7/26
July 26, 2019
today is d's birthday <3 it has been a hard year for her, but things are so much better than they were and i'm proud of how much work she's doneour...
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