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having to wait for the marshmallow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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)...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

1. the fight between shiv and tom on succession season 4, episode 7. so often my reaction during and after experiencing a prestige cultural product amounts...

i’m thankful that on the first night of our trip visiting my parents (i’m thankful we could have the trip and also i’m thankful that the trip is over), we...

unexpectedly it snowed

February 23, 2023

i'm thankful that today unexpectedly it snowed (i mean other people expected it but i leave my house like once a week in winter and have stopped even really...

five laughter emojis

January 25, 2023

i realized why i couldn't do the underwear thing yesterday which is that it's not an underwear thing it's a sock thing and it's that when i'm putting on my...

how to access state stored in a context

January 24, 2023

the sensation of typing on my bluetooth keyboard and waiting for it to register the input on the blank white page and then the moment when the characters...

January 22, 2023

instance of [german word] feeling when you're at the grocery store and you can't remember if you have an ingredient that you need for a few nights of the...

internet writing legend

January 13, 2023

internet writing legend emily gould has a new newsletter starting soon!!!

January 10, 2023

the knowledge, reaffirmed every time i ever use social media, that i have much better taste than so many people

January 8, 2023

ended the work week really happy with the work i'd done and feel like i'm going into the next work week with much less dread and not even feeling like i'll...

i accidentally screenshared my slack DMs on a zoom

January 6, 2023

i'm thankful that though i accidentally screenshared my slack DMs on a zoom for backlog refinement (trying to be helpful and display the meeting agenda doc...

i am the firestarter

January 5, 2023

recently told deborah (and now you i guess) that every morning after i go to the bathroom, i light a match and stand in front of the bathroom mirror waiting...

using the heart emoji on jira comments

January 4, 2023

an, an engineer who i am very fond of, asked me a question about whether she needed to do additional work on a particular area of the core API, thinking that...

January 3, 2023

that though i wrote here less last year than in previous years, i still wrote some and that i wrote something yesterday (taylor swift voice: "on NEW YEAR'S...

January 2, 2023

roll-on sunscreen

December 27, 2022

garlic chicken musubiwent to a really nice beachroll-on sunscreen, my preferred form of sunscreenevery time i have applied sunscreen to myself this trip in...

a christmas miracle

December 26, 2022

that this morning when i clogged the toilet in the bathroom of our airbnb in hawaii and could not despite vigorous effort and much negative emotion unclog it...

philomena cunk christmas special

December 21, 2022

i’m thankful that a while ago my friend david recommended philomena cunk to me and tonight we watched the philomena cunk christmas special which made me...

sleeping and having slept

December 12, 2022

i have a half hour left of my break before going back to work and normally i would either scroll on my phone or just start work early (but not stop work...

a place where you are no longer "about to throw up"

December 10, 2022

i'm thankful for how after you get very nauseous and throw up (as i did last night, insult to injury* (or punishment for overmedicating) after having an...