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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...

to no longer live next door to a family with a trampoline

May 25, 2023

1. our neighbors had a party in their backyard last night and rather than being annoyed i was just reminded of my deep gratitude to no longer live next door...

spring asparagus is bussin'

May 24, 2023

1. this shrimp scampi with orzo. i tend to roughly double the recipe (my modifications to recipes are always rough, but tl;dr i used a whole pound of orzo...

personal health purchases i do not regret

May 23, 2023

1. shiatsu massage pillow. (this is the one i have currently after having another similar one for a long time and eventually wearing it out), which is the...

ride into the sun

May 22, 2023

1. spencer is riding his bike to all the national parks and it's been really nice following his journey, which has been arduous but full of beauty and...

listening to d, k, and ec talk about makeup

May 21, 2023

1. riding home in the backseat from din tai fung listening to d, k, and ec talk about makeup2. the sensation of having read a book at some point in the not...

support my favorite photographer

May 19, 2023

my favorite photographer ashley gates just received a liver transplant. if you're able to donate to support her recovery, you can do so here. her work is...

MSG

May 18, 2023

1. figuring out the bug ticket i had been putting off for a while because i thought i had a solution before the code freeze for the company retreat and then...

the best voice notes i will ever receive

May 17, 2023

1. in DM response to an insta story i reposted, sarah sent me the best voice notes i will ever receive and d and i listened to them while eating ice cream...

at least for now

May 16, 2023

1. i spent a lot of time grinding my brain against a series of engineering problems throughout the afternoon yesterday but kept pushing myself (/ pulling my...