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the first time i ate chocolate
August 29, 2023
1. deborah and i have been playing a lot of co-op vampire survivors since it came out on the switch (previous report of it being the most addictive video...
drake is the millennial david bowie
August 28, 2023
1. wearing loop silicon ear plugs underneath my bose noise-cancelling headphones (the double-wrapped condom of noise blocking, both in the most obvious joke...
a legitimate reason to scream
August 27, 2023
saturday i was in a subpar mood because i couldn't do real exercise or smoke/vape weed because of the need to protect the blood clot in my mouth from suction...
getting my wisdom
August 26, 2023
the sensation of lying deeply reclined under a thick blanket in a well padded dental chair before getting my wisdom tooth removed as, at the edge of my...
simply keep this attitude
August 25, 2023
nice phrases from my peer and coach reviews of the last six months at work:Justin is awesome!i've been able to see firsthand just how much code Justin has...
an immense noise
August 24, 2023
great new issue of deborah's newsletter:we left the windows open all day, for the first time in months. it’s so quiet without the a/c and the fans whirring,...
reminders to be more mindful and present
August 23, 2023
1. unlike last summer, i kept the grass in the backyard alive through the heat wave. before it ended, we rented the backyard of someone who had a pool for an...
extremely fun new toy
August 17, 2023
1. last night e shared this extremely fun new toy rave.dj which lets you select videos from youtube and makes automatic mashups of them (including video,...
the good lord bud
August 16, 2023
ice cream in the summer, like what a magic trick that is. i remember still vividly my grandfather making ice cream with fresh peaches in a metal can in the...
kind of a diss but also kind of a compliment
August 14, 2023
the delinquent season which was introduced to me as a movie where cillian murphy has lots of sex and you know sold (it also has andrew scott i.e. hot priest...
this summer
August 6, 2023
i know that in all likelihood it will happen eventually but i haven't yet had a bad nectarine this summer
it made me laugh so so so so so hard
August 2, 2023
1. if you have to use docker i recommend this app called orbstack which i just started using on the recommendation of a coworker and which makes everything...
it's gross that it's about bathrooms
July 31, 2023
1. new (and final 😔) season of my favorite work of poetry how to with john wilson is back and even though it's gross that the first episode is about public...
to let the breeze pass through
July 31, 2023
1. the last couple weekends i told myself i was going to catch up on work on sunday (which i did to varying degrees but regardless of how much i did also...
almost everything
July 25, 2023
1. crazy new yorker article that will make a good movie or HBO series someday and will entertain you now. first line of a bad poem i thought of which is...
keep looking
July 24, 2023
1. i beat the lightning temple in tears of the kingdom without ever looking at a strategy guide, which i haven't done yet for any of the other temples or any...
like literally i laughed in the theater
July 23, 2023
1. i'm thankful that last night we got to see oppenheimer, the movie i was most excited to see this summer, even though in the end i was disappointed to find...
self review
July 21, 2023
i didn't have work today except i did a little because our peer and manager and self reviews were due at work and i hadn't finished my self review and i'm...
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...
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...
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