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Just thought: maybe I can arrange an afterschool playdate for my kid today and then remembered that every kid she likes got into the afterschool program except her.

Ffffffffuck. Fifth time (or whatever) is a charm.

Positive covid test.

It really gets me every day that Ivory won’t default these posts to follower-only

Trying to do the math of work, study, and childcare and something will have to give.

Thought I’d crossed off a longtime wishlist item from the used bin at the comic store. Realized I hadn't. So it goes.

My kid spit on her friend’s dad and I quietly/gently said that was a little too much and that was the end of any possibility for the day.

Not much, just looking up apoptosis visualization animations, why do you ask? youtube.com/watch?v=DR80Huxp4y

I gave a “three minute" talk on GTD today and managed to make a factorial error in a slide animation that caused it to turn into 49 slides, at which point I gave up, skipped to the end and told people:

- get an inbox you can reach
- make a list of projects and try to make it complete
- look at it at least once a week

Ok, so I got really mad someone sniped me with 5 seconds left and I whaled, but now I’ve hedged the complete-in-sealed-bags-but-without-a-box with a built-but-includes-box and am going to try to sell the sealed bags with the clean box as an open box to get the built one for a discount price and

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I mean, I *know* it’s mania, but why *wouldn’t* a person buy two Lego Sea Cows on ebay??

@berd my 1:1 with my manager today and my “lets talk about your career” call with HR are going to go *so* differently for having read this.

I simply do not care about filling some arbitrary amount of hours when there is not project work to do.

@waldoj That sounds great. I just texted you some details

I saw the Dune(s) and cannot stop thinking about the Dune(s)

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.