š« Struggling with some focus issues this week as I work. Iām doggedly hyper focused, but on the wrong priorities. I canāt get to the tasks I wanted to start and finish on Tuesday because I keep working on other stuff. Iām supposed to have this eLearning course done this week and I donāt think itās going to be physically possible unless I work on Saturday or Sunday.
Read moreMATTHEW, WEāVE TALKED ABOUT READING THE COMMENTS BEFORE.
microblog://post?text= Our agency director is having a press conference with the governor today and her executive assistant sent an announcement about it. It had a link to the governorās Facebook page, which I didnāt even want to click on because now it means I have to clear my cache and Iāve got like 400 open tabs, but I did click on it and whatās worseā¦I read the comments. I still cannot believe how willfully and confidently ignorant the people of Ohio are.
Read moreAND THATāS WHY YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE
āWhassa matter, Garfield? Cat gotcher tongue?ā I chuckled when I had that thought. It calmed me down from being angry at whatever IT pro did this while finally installing some light cable management at my desk and who didnāt leave a note. At least they set it aside and didnāt like, stomp on it some more. And they carefully placed this beautiful, broken paperweight right next to my semi-sacrilegious calendar which I LOVE hanging here at the downtown state owned office tower.
Read moreMost People Are Good by Luke Bryan My god do I ever hate contemporary country music. š¤®š¤®š¤®
Read moreI think I might need more Garfields for my office desk downtown. And a better cord management system, ew.
Read moreHereās a Betty Davis song all about booze and liquor and drinking and getting drunk and drinking more and also drinking. Great listening for your next happy hour or disco dance or fine dining experience. Not particularly recommended for playing at 12-step meetings, however.
Read moreI went down some YouTube rabbit holes about a decade ago and stumbled onto this one-of-a-kind way-ahead-of-her-time artist named Betty Davis. I immediately realized this funkstress supreme was a underrated touchstone who opened up a helluva lotta doors for a helluva lotta women. She died in 2022.
Read moreš Iām still upset that the episode of 30 Rock with Oprah Winfrey got yanked from all the streaming platforms and digital stores. I mean, I get it (although Iāll never really get it since that first āI get itā is about to be followed up with a ābutā which means I donāt really get it), but it was so funny! I wish they couldāve AI edited out the B-story and kept Oprah and Liz (and Pam).
Read moreI mentioned PunkPost: Beautifully Handwritten Cards Mailed by Artists For You the other day. This is the PunkPost card I sent Michael for Valentineās Day. Cool, huh? ā¤ļø
Read moreA very un-Trumpy performance delivers for Trump at Supreme Court (Apple News) It was a spectacle that almost nobody would have predicted: Joe Bidenās only nominee to the Supreme Court urging Trumpās lawyer to be more assertive. š¤¦š»āāļø
Read moreHonestly my weight loss goal is to lose enough weight to be able to fit into the Kate Bush Fish People shirt that I got. Hereās the logo/image. Isnāt that gorgeous?!
Read moreThere was a band called Frente! in the early mid 90s that you might remember. They were Australian and did an acoustic cover of a New Order song called Bizarre Love Triangle. Their original song Labor of Love got some radio play, too. But their second album, Shape, wasnāt particularly commercially successful or popular but it is such a good album. They were maturing in their writing and playing and it really deserved more recognition.
Read moreDance Hall Days by Wang Chung is one of my favorite 80s songs. Along with the original, thereās an orchestral version and a re-recorded version on Apple Music and Iām listening to all three this morning. šµ
Read moreBecause of course they did. I am SO ready for reasonable people to all light a torch, grab a pitchfork, and be done rolling over and taking it from the right wing once and for all. End the corruption. Eat the rich. Tax the churches. Abolish legalized slavery. Fix the goddamn environment. Care for the vulnerable. Hand out healthcare like itās Halloween candy. Obliterate fascists. And lock him the fuck up.
Read moreš¹ Still audio-reading Resistance by Tori Amos. Still crying in nearly every chapter. She just finished reading The Beekeeper at the end of this chapter about her mother and visions and death and nothing but surely thereās something and so I listened to the song and Iām a wreck. An absolute wreck.
Read moreš« I hate to complain but I will. There are very few things I hate more than sour blueberries. Iād take a paper cut over a sour blueberry. Iād crawl through a bat-infested cave on my hands and knees over a sour blueberry. Rather than suffer another sour blueberry, Iād watch a Kardashian on the television. Be a bit like A Clockwork Orange style for me, but Iād do it!
Read moreš© If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to Why don’t you go where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz!
Read moreBleaugh. Gross. RIP, SNL. āNikki Haley digs at Trump, takes Civil War question in SNL cameoā
Read moreI love Punkpost. They hand write & mail greeting cards. Price incl. 300 characters ($1.50 if exceeded), postage & envelope, plus fancy handwriting & doodles. Add-ons incl. a printed photo, confetti, & gift card. To make someoneās day special and support an artist, check them out.
Read moreMy brother and I have talked for a few years about getting a matching tattoo. I decided to see what ChatGPTās tattoo designer might come up with. I gotta sayā¦I really like this! Iād want a human artist to interpret it in their own style, but as a starting point I think this kinda nails it.
Read moreAdded my Prince symbol pin to my pinboard at work office. ššš
Read moreMommy, is this a critical race theory? Utah is the latest state to ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on campus and in government
Read moreAUDIOBOOKS: DO BETTER.
Iām audio-reading Tori Amosās āResistanceā. Itās incredible, and quite an informative lesson in politics. Iām surprised by how much Iāve learned. Throughout it, she recites songs as spoken word pieces, and let me tell you that woman can emote. She should seriously do like a mini-tour of only spoken word pieces and solo piano pieces. The Deconstruction Tour. I can see it nowā¦ But using Apple Books to audio-read has been a lackluster, underwhelming, if not downright frustrating experience.
Read moreI mean if the jackboot fitsā¦
Read moreToday I learned that being an Authoritarian Follower is, at least in part, a hard-wired genetic thing that impacts about 18-20 percent of us (and republicans take advantage of it all the time).
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