I hate when I’m sick and things already suck and then I pull an abdominal muscle just to really push things over the edge.
Nothing says the Midwest like scarfing down gas station breakfast pizza during your town’s monthly tornado siren testing.
Watching an old animated Disney movie with a familiar voice in the lead. The teenager looked up who it is.
“Says it’s Michael J. Fox,” she said.
Ah, I said. I thought he sounded familiar.
“Who is he?” she asked.
I’m going to go weep for my lost youth now.
Another workday, another home office interruption from Princess Bitching Restface.
Finally got my shingles vax today. Hoped to get it yesterday but the pharmacy had just run out. I was told to come back this afternoon once a new shipment came in.
Coming back in late April for the 2nd of 2 shots. I could wait, but I’m not taking a chance that Sec’y Brainworm dumps them after that.
Tonight’s TV viewing: “Dan Da Dan.” The high school relationship drama is a little annoying, but the show’s still entertaining.
I had no idea that parenthood would end up involving so much anime nerdery. But here we are.
Our pharmacy ran out of the shingles vaccine today, but the pharmacist said to come back tomorrow when they expect a new shipment. I suspect we’ll be seeing a run on vaccines for a while.
I just had a couple of pieces of cheese that is barely 2 years younger than our 16yo daughter. I hope that’s somehow not wrong, because I dissociate best with sharp cheddar.
Just returned home after lunch w/C and taking F to her D&D session. Thought about tearing away to write at my local coffeehouse, but I’m trapped in a recliner with a cat on my lap. This may be the holiday weekend “activity” I actually need.
Thinking as I lay wide awake at 1 a.m. on Monday that that wonderful pot of Adeni chai I had Sunday afternoon wasn’t such a good idea. 😑
Apparently there’s some football game going on today. I am celebrating appropriately.
Raymond wishes you a happy Caturday.
I was supposed to fly into Reagan National in March for a work function. I was immensely relieved to cancel my trip after my nonprofit employer pulled back on travel for budgetary reasons.
My team (the Padres) is annoying me, but baseball remains a soothing balm for me. Running YouTube videos of Ichiro Suzuki highlights and full games (the 2007 All-Star Game and the Japan-Korea WBC final from 2009) while I work.
Spending my afternoon avoiding news and reading this graphic novelized biography of artist Yayoi Kusama. Fascinating figure in the pop art movement of the late 20th century who faced mental illness and moved into a psychiatric hospital in the 1970s to do her work. At 95, she’s still there today.
I threw a “Twin Peaks” party when I was working at my first newspaper job in Fresno back in 1990. I was proud to host as the Viking hostess from Episode 5, though it took forever to find a Viking helmet in those pre-Amazon days.
It may be time to introduce my teenager to “Twin Peaks.”
Based on my experience today slogging through my work day in a foggy stupor, I’m destined to be an early sleeper for as long as I have to continue working. I guess my night owl life is officially over until I retire or win the lottery. 😐
Will Leitch on R.E.M.: “There is something very Generation X about this most Generation X of bands refusing to take a payday just for the sake of reminiscence.” (Washington Post [gift link])
Happiness is a dog that snores.
Props to the guy on LaGrange Road wearing a beanie and driving his Miata with the top down in 30-degree weather #MidwestLiving
Quietly being judged in the comfort of my own home office.
I just mowed down an entire bag of Doritos. I mean, a 9-ounce bag. So much for the health resolutions I wrote out this afternoon. 😐
Well, crap. This is the kind of thing I’m trying to overcome in 2025.
In my happy place tonight, on J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday, with “The Two Towers.”
I just made peanut butter and strawberry preserve sandwiches using leftover pancakes. And they were good. Please clap.