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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...