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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...
wow so good
May 15, 2023
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...
thank god lmao
April 19, 2023
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...
capers
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!!!
reaffirmed
January 10, 2023
the knowledge, reaffirmed every time i ever use social media, that i have much better taste than so many people
blog past
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...
leftover pizza
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...
pizza
January 2, 2023
pizza
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...
the most addictive video game i have played in some time (and it's free)
December 9, 2022
i'm thankful that vampire survivors, the most addictive video game i have played in some time, which was already available in a full-featured free browser...
epic
December 8, 2022
made all the jira cards for the epic by the end of the day
a superb supermarket ice cream
December 7, 2022
d and i had a silly spat this morning because i teased her too much about the appropriate place to temporarily hide our drugs and drug paraphernalia but we...
that she did not get hit by a car
December 6, 2022
i'm thankful that at the end of my lunch break when i was moving our left-in-the-rain-too-long target patio furniture from the back patio to the garage...
rap capital
December 4, 2022
if you are like me and your spotify wrapped, which on an intellectual level as a content creator and software engineer you respect as an ingenious and well-...
vacuum cleaner battery
December 3, 2022
had "learn something" day at work on friday which is a monthly day where i do not have to meet with or respond to anyone about anything and can just sit in...
a promotion she deserved
December 1, 2022
manager i love got a promotion she deserved
[falsetto taylor swift voice]
November 30, 2022
fell asleep too early trying to read after getting in bed instead of staying on the couch “because it’s more comfortable” (i’m thankful for our new mattress...
story of my life
November 29, 2022
the cereal was satisfying if not as transcendent as i had imagined it might be (story of my life).
breakfast
November 28, 2022
tomorrow for breakfast i am going to have reese’s puffs cereal with sliced banana and milk
misotober
October 2, 2022
i'm thankful that for the second year, d is doing a comic about our dog miso everyday for the month of october, starting today with a hand-drawn taurus meme...
like i was softly glowing from inside
September 18, 2022
i'm thankful that i did not have a bad DMT trip. i'm thankful that a few weeks ago [redacted] procured for me a DMT vape cartridge, which came with its own...
godard
September 14, 2022
i’m thankful that godard was able to choose to die.
as a linkin park fan
September 9, 2022
i'm thankful for this mashup e sent me of "YMCA" and "in the end" by linkin park, which i found very beautiful, and i'm thankful that i was just listening to...
the dying breaths of leo season
September 5, 2022
i'm thankful that last week d wrote an issue of her newsletter about the dying breaths of leo season.i'm thankful for all the good peaches and nectarines i...
chocolate chip cookies
August 30, 2022
i’m thankful for chocolate chip cookies
licorice pizza
August 27, 2022
i'm thankful for licorice pizza, which we watched last night and which, aside from two brief, jarring, totally unnecessary, and unfunny "historically...
things i have been consuming lately
August 25, 2022
i'm thankful for things i have been consuming lately, including:- perfect late summer cherries, peaches, nectarines, watermelon, and mangoes; ghirardeli box...
korean reality dating show
August 24, 2022
i'm thankful for the korean reality dating show change days, which is currently in its second season streaming on netflix and which d and i have been avidly...
"a self-portrait of a man trying to reach past his relentless solipsism"
August 21, 2022
i'm thankful that while it's still properly summer it hasn't been as painfully hot lately, that there have been days where we haven't had to have the air...
terraria
August 14, 2022
i'm thankful that lately i have been trying to find new routes for my runs. i'm thankful to recognize what a difference novelty in terrain and environment...
tapatio doritos
August 11, 2022
i'm thankful for the running water bottle i got which has so improved the quality of my runs this summer. i'm thankful that i did some work in typescript...
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