Happy 14th birthday to Lucy beagle! She’s driving me nuts right now with all her pacing back and forth, but I’m fighting off a cold and easily aggravated. Sore throat, runny stuffy nose, hot then cold then hot then sweat sweat sweat. Tired. So tired. Haven’t felt this gross in a while.
Read more💸📚💻 Libraries reckon with high e-book costs (axios.com) It costs the library $75 to get a single digital license of Harlan Coben’s latest novel, “Think Twice.” The e-book can be checked out by one patron at a time and the license expires after two years. A physical copy costs just $16 and can remain permanently in the collection. Big publishers are price-fixing consumer-gouging monoliths who should be brought to their knees in class action lawsuits.
Read moreI got a macro clip on lens for my iPhone camera. I’m not sure it’s better than the regular lens or not. What do you think?
Read moreRon DeSantis targets Pride Month by limiting colored lights on bridges Nothing says freedom quite like telling people they can only use three government-approved colors! Exactly. God, I hope he falls of one of his stupid anti-woke bridges and drowns like the lump of fake patriotic phlegm he is.
Read moreA colleague just Teams’d me: So you just came up in a “Coffee Chat” as part of the HR Insights program. It was an informal session and training needs came up. I talked about our time on the TDC and Ray J. threw you out there as a “wealth of knowledge” who is incredibly helpful and able to bring a different flavor of training. As someone who also strives to do that, I thought I should pass it along.
Read moreStatement from President Joe Biden on the Supreme Court Ruling in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of NAACP | The White House The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. Key to that right is ensuring that voters pick their elected officials — not the other way around. Yup. If only the Supreme Court of the United States of American’t Let You Vote ‘Cause You’re Black would listen.
Read more🍔 Hi Matthew, The ultrasound results show fatty liver disease which is very common. Fatty liver disease is managed via management of diabetes and making healthy diet choices. So things look stable! We should though just place a referral to a GI specialist who can monitor this just to ensure that it stays stable. That referral will be completed within the week. XXXXXX APRN,CNP ——— What means this “healthy diet choices”
Read moreBarely a week after Dems save Mike Johnson’s ass and he’s out Trumpeting like he’s first chair in a really lousy, tone-deaf, corrupt concert band. I get the “better the devil you know” concept but c’mon, Dems! 🤬 Wake. Up. This is the real world. It’s his reality show and you keep losing every single challenge. You do not have immunity. STOP being polite and start getting real!
Read moreGreat pre-show meal at Due Amici. Blackened salmon Caesar salad. Lemon crostata for dessert. Wanted a taste of their Limoncello, which would’ve been the first sip of alcohol I’d have had in well over a year or two or three, but they’re all out. Oh well. On with the show! 🍋
Read moreWe’re going to Tina! The musical. So I figured if I’m ever going to wear these sparkly shoes this would be the time.
Read more🎵 Now Playing: Lovesong (2010 Remaster) by The Cure from the album Disintegration on Music
Read moreThis morning I was running late, but I decided I needed to stop and smell the roses anyway. 🌹📸
Read moreHey. Remember that time I kept outbidding my director for tickets to Tina! The Musical at the charity auction where I’m pretty sure she thought she was going to win and my boss was egging me on to outbid so I did? Well guess what we’re going to see on Saturday: Big wheel keep on turnin’, y’all!
Read moreI tried to get a snap of Maggie using her paw to hold my hand this morning. The light was too dim, but I caught her yawning and had to share it here. Cat yawn! 😸
Read more“Rafah residents flee strikes after Israeli evacuation order - Reuters” The war began after Hamas stunned Israel with a cross-border raid on Oct. 7 in which 1,200 people were killed and 252 hostages taken, according to Israeli tallies. More than 34,700 Palestinians have been killed and more than 78,000 have been wounded in Israel’s assault, according to Gaza’s health ministry. It’s just hard not to see what’s happening here.
Read more🗨️ Why are PowerPoint presentations always rated “R”? …because of all the graphic content.
Read more📚🧛♀️ 🗓️📧📰 Dracula Daily has started. I meant to follow along last year, but let it pass by. We’ll see how long I stick with it this year. It’s such a clever way to remix the novel.
Read moreA LONG SURRENDER
The King Knows How by Over the Rhine from The Long Surrender Surrender and surrendering have been fairly consistent themes since I started seeing a new therapist a couple years ago. I had decided to stop seeing my first therapist who was very helpful at times, but our time together ran its course. It was, frankly, incredibly exhausting to confront alcoholic and addiction tendencies every two weeks. I had made it clear I wasn’t interested in 12-step programs or groups and finally I said I didn’t think we were moving forward.
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A Man is Not His Song from Pleasure by Feist So, I had a bit of a spring affair. Well, a winter-through-summer affair. It was cold when we met and hot outside the last time we saw each other. His name was Luke. I liked him a lot. He was charming. A little dull but his grin more than made up for it. He had that kind of impossible, Disney prince animated handsomeness all over him.
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Hello! from The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Hello, David. In early 2023, I put 170 words on the screen for you explaining a writing project and my intentions for it, and how I’d use this writing project to share some updates about my life with you in essays and songs. I’m typing over those words right now. I never got around to doing what I intended to do, which probably means I should instead intend to do something I’ll actually do.
Read moreI’m planning on posting (and in some cases re-posting) a series of essays for my friend David who asked me, “How are things going?” About two years ago and to whom I’m finally replying in a series of essays. You’ll get to read (most of) them too, even if you aren’t David. Which you probably aren’t.
Read moreTinkering today. Trying this Quotebacks bookmarklet I stumbled on to here at quotebacks.net. For a long time I’ve wanted to add quoting tools to Micro.blog, so that it’s even easier to embed text from other blog posts and add your own thoughts. Markdown block quotes are fairly easy, but do require a little more copy/paste work and some editing. Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2020/06/15/embedding-microblog-posts.html
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Read more😟 I coordinated a statewide series of webinars for Older Americans Month with our EAP. Fridays at 10 in May. My agency even did a press release with info about it (which I guess means you’re all invited?). Today’s topic was about caring for someone with Alzheimer’s. The info is important to know, but it is also depressing to hear.
Read moreI just 🤬🤬🤬 worked through my therapist appointment because I forgot I had one. This is despite having filled out therapist paperwork this morning and directly emailing to my therapist a “see you soon” email this morning. Didn’t even realize I missed it for 45 whole minutes. Arg! 🧠💨
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