2021
Some Bible verses about worship that don’t get quoted very often: “I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies … Take away from me the noise of your song! I will not listen to the music of your harps.” Amos 5:21,23
I am not a big fan of musicals in general, but the recent Fresh Air triple episode tribute to Steven Sondheim was moving and it turns out I actually like his music a lot. It’s complex and dense and beautiful and abstract.
Why can’t Siri, the musicologist, as Phil Schiller called it, do something as simple as Play all my Sting albums in order of release? Or Add all of Beethoven to my up next?
I usually shower on Thursday and Sunday. But I needed to shower yesterday - so I’m off my schedule. Which means I can’t shower today, Sunday, because that would mean showering 2 days in a row.
Every person makes observations and draws conclusions from those observations. This is what we are, and that’s alright.
in other news … yes, I got my covid booster today … and why does it feel like a risky thing to discuss? I feel all twisted up about this aspect of the current state of things. There are only a few people I know with whom I would dare to bring up vaccines.
Could the entire Internet go back to just Wikipedia and a few friendly forums I like?
During my COVID booster today, I heard “Wonderful Christmas Time” for the first time this year. Among my all time least favorite songs. The timing of it all just seemed odd.
Last night I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager - the main plot was that the crew found a planet where an alien species had stashed some humans that they abducted from Earth in 1937, INCLUDING, Amelia Earhart. Some abductees had escaped and in the 400 intervening years formed a new human civilization. Incredible story. This is why I watch TV.
Just as sounds do indeed exist in empty woods, albums can still exist even though they’re not available on the major retail streaming outlets.
I don’t like being seen, and I don’t understand why people like to do live videos so much. Attention grubbing and vain.
The “new” Radiohead song Follow Me Around is just weird. In the vein of Electioneering. Drop D. Almost bluesy, which is disorienting.
Started playing SUPER METROID. Unsure why it took me nearly 30 years to figure out that it’s a great game, but I’m glad I did.
Watching THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. Awesome.
you want to write about your middle school rock band - and the jimmy jam - and teaching George the bass. But you also want to eat mozza sticks and watch SUCCESSION - because the internet is talking a lot about SUCCESSION - a marketing thing. Also, you want to listen to the REM album NEW ADVENTURES IN HI FI - which is their most underrated album to debut at no.2. Goodnight.
Among cultural artifacts I should revisit: Plastic Ono Band is higher up the list than The Queen’s Gambit.
No offense to The Queen’s Gambit.
I don’t know why but I can’t shake the feeling that I am secretly despised by many - almost everyone actually secretly despises me.
American Idiot is a great album. Not embarrassed to say so. It’s no Invisible Man - but it’s good.
A hot take for today: Rough and Rowdy Ways is not only a solid album for an 80 year old icon - it is the best album of Dylan’s entire career.
“I lost the ball for about three seconds,” Johnson said postgame. “Luckily it popped back into my vision. That’s part of it. You know, you can’t make excuses. That’s part of the elements. You see different elements throughout the year. I’m grateful I came down with it. It felt good.”
Sports in general would be better if we, as the public, would let players do their talking on the field of play.
Unless, of course, what they have to say dovetails with a pertinent political issue the country is grappling with. Then, by all means, let’s hear their fire hot takes.
I want to trim my dog’s nails, and I got the nail clippers, but I’m doggone nervous about the entire thing. Nothing to do but take the furry plunge and remember how much I used to hate trimming my own nails.
when there’s a knife already in the butter dish that had been used, and I go to make another kind of sandwich, i just take that butter knife, wipe if off on the bread, then dip it into whatever fresh spread I’m about to use.
Haven’t had enough time to do the crossword lately. That must be remedied, somehow, someway.
Got this up and running again.
In other news, trying to get the Homepod to play “Jesus Lord by Kanye West” instead of “Jesus is Lord by Kanye West” is a high degree of difficulty.
When I was just now pouring the water into the water well of the coffee maker, some drops accidentally spilled into the grounds in the basket - I was mortified by those drips, because the ground aren’t supposed to get wet prior to the brew - but I was also too lazy to change them out for fresh. #life
It only took me 4 days, but I got the car seat put back together.
Rich Mullins. If you haven’t listened to him, he’s far more than whatever you thought. Listen.
The 2nd half of Modern Vampires of the City is up there with Abbey Road as my favorite records ever. Such great flow of tunes and moods. I love it and it makes me happy and sad all at the same time every time I listen.
Busy rearranging deck chairs today, and most days.
Yesterday was Friday the 13th.
COVID-19 updated #9: when the pandemic started, I was preparing multiple bottles of baby milk each morning to save time. Now I’m potty training.
One of the oddest, and yet coolest, experiences I’ve had was getting to, in a very impromptu manner, play guitar in a band tossed together by a friend that would open for Bon Iver at the student union in Iowa City. 2008 or so? In the Black Box theater.
What does it mean that I haven’t watched the Olympics at all this year? Or that I don’t care about them. Or that I don’t feel any emotional affinity for any sports team anymore. Or care about sports at all.
I had previously thought that Guided By Voices were a conventional classic rock band that I wouldn’t be into. Like The Shins. But I found out yesterday that that isn’t at all true. They’re weird, and from Ohio.
Karl Ove on cutting off another driver when changing lanes and almost causing an accident: “The angry blast of his horn cut straight into my soul.“
I get this. The feeling of having troubled someone and provoked an outburst. Shameful.
It is a rule in our house, inscribed upon tablets of stone, and the tablets of human hearts, that the morning pot of coffee be a darker roast, and the afternoon pot of coffee be a lighter roast.
I can’t believe it’s Monday. I almost forgot to take the trash out. Considering the idea that I could listen closely to music more often. Instead of all the talk. The inanity of it all. Read and write more, do the crosswords, complete the crosswords, figure out how to make music again.
AC repair person finally here. We are on day 4 of no AC upstairs. It’s been close to 90 up there in the late afternoon, and no lower than 84 at night.
Would it have been nice for them to come earlier? Yes. But they’ve been swamped. And we are an understanding family. That is part of our DNA.
For an unknown reason, Fox requested that we play “bird sounds” on the car stereo. So Marielle dialed in an hour of bird sounds on YouTube and he was happy. Why?? How??
Think about all those times you heated something in the microwave for 10 seconds. Now think about all the time you could’ve saved if you’d punched in 9 instead.
I can feel Fox beginning to quit his nap time. And it’s fine. I will handle it and move on.
I might be watching only Star Trek series for the rest of my life.
In other news, last night I was reading on my Kindle in bed and my spouse had fallen asleep fairly close by. Then I lost my grip on the Kindle and it fell part on my face part on her. Not a great moment there.
Many would count Blink 182’s song “The Rock Show” among their lame later career flare ups that fall flat - but for whatever reason, it’s their song that sticks the most in my head.
The other day my spouse looked at our apple cider vinegar and said “I’m worried about the mother.” She had to explain this to me, but when I understood, I realized that I was also worried about the mother.
My latest way of getting through each day unscathed: doing the NYT crossword.
Got my second vaccine dose for my birthday. Then got In and Out burger.
Sometimes you feel a bit better about everything when you take the case off of your phone for awhile.
4/21/22
- LW has been a morning monster this week. he can’t contain his enthusiasm for the day.
- he spent 22 minutes sitting on my neck in the living room this morning
- late breakfast; MarioKart; hiking game
- lunch
- picking up SM w boys
- got two NOISE notifications from my Watch this afternoon when Fox gave his loudest and highest pitch screams
- Star Trek, Animal Crossing, dishes
- bed at 10:50
- Listening: The Daily, Meet My Friends the Friends, MacCast, The Improvement Association
4/20/21
- up early. LLLLLW was going wild at 6 AM
- Suzuki is cancelled for today
- First time to ROOTS coffee in over a year
- Drove by the covid testing site. Considered getting a test just because.
- Apple event today. AirTags. Pffffft.
- George Floyd murder trial verdicts annc’d: Guilty on all counts.
- Marielle at d-hall. dinner just w kids.
- watching Nausicaaaaaaa.
- Listening: The Daily, Road Work (great episode), The Incomparable, Live Apple event coverage, The Improvement Association
Nobody is posting about Lord Yupa tonight. So here’s a tweet about LORD YUPA and his outstanding swordsmanship.
Fox is playing Animal Crossing a bit - and he was in the flower field doing the crying action - he said he was watering the flowers w/ his tears.
In other news, went to a coffee shop for the 2nd time in a year.
At a middle school track meet. This is tweeting the way tweets were originally meant to be tweeted by the tweet framers.
4/16/21
- out of bed 6:50. boys sleeping late again. western day for Fox.
- rainy, rainy, rainy
- misc play. no lunch call w anyone. talked to M briefly.
- nap; dishes; garbage; laundry
- pick up; exchanged 2 old car seats at Target for a 20% off coupon for a new car seat - but it’s worth it just to have them gone.
- Costco pizza
- kids sleeping out in the livingroom; reading; generally in a mad mood; shower; typing
- Listening: The Daily, Accidental Tech Podcast, Total Party Kill, It’s Been a Minute, Fresh Air, One More Thing, The Improvement Association, the rain, Summerteeth, Kind of Blue,
- Drinking: coffee, white wine
I wrote an email to a random Japanese ambient guitarist that I happened upon. This morning received a reply from him thanking me for the compliment on his songs. He also asked that I let him hear some of my music sometime - but I don’t have anything real to show him.
Gotta fix this. Enough is enough.
4/14/21
- SM in my room waking me at 6:40 again today.
- prepping salsa chicken crock pot
- woke FX at 7:30; breakfast; to school
- toodling around the house; lunch call w mom
- naps; putting clothes away
- pick up; milkshake at Sonic; got gas Costco
- home; misc play; dinner
- dishes; working on desk & room clutter
- reading
- Listening: The Daily, Magnus Archives, Best Show, Fresh Air, The Rebound
4/11/21
- up late at 7:15
- Fox still running 100 degrees; no church for boys
- outside play; Fox worked on letters & numbers
- the warp and the woof
- lunches; girls to home depot
- installed table leaf, new light
- brinner; outside play
- bedtimes; shower & shave; digitized M’s skydive video from 2006
- listened to livestream of Sufjan’s forthcoming instrumental album (meh)
April 10, 2021 at 4:49:00 PM CDT
- up at 6:20 with LW
- cooked oatmeal with raisins and apples for breakfast
- IKEA trip. lunch in the restaurant. returned the stools we didn’t like.
- home. watched We Can Be Heroes, kids movie on Netflix by Robert Rodriguez. good.
- Fox feverish. game with new stuffed snakes. spaghetti for dinner.
- laundry and a movie, MANK.
- bed at 11:45
There’s something about wearing a short sleeved shirt after 9 PM that feels wrong, and even immoral.
In other news, watched MANK. Four stars.
The return line at this IKEA is OUTRAGEOUS
April 9, 2021
- up 6:40. dreamed about my glasses falling apart and I met JG’s spouse for the first time and they’d had another baby during the pandemic
- Fox up late 7:30
- finished front room rearrangement; vacuumed upstairs
- lunch; dishwasher; tidied under sink cabinet
- picked up Fox; milkshake at Sonic
- Costco pizza dinner
- Girls doing crafts downstairs, me chasing around LW
- sold turnips at 531
- Listening: The Daily (Odessa), Best Show Bests, Criminal, ATP
April 8, 2021
- up 6:45
- cheesy egg whites w/ the boys. cereal.
- upstairs play; rearranged upstairs, moving the multi basket storage unit downstairs; dumped out several entire buckets into the trash
- outside play
- lunch
- lay downs before picking up Sylvia Mae; Fox and I laid on my bed under the fan
- home; play; dinner; play doh; Marielle at d-hall
- in bed 10:45
- Listening: The Daily, Connected, Clockwise, Washington Today
I was heating up some coffee earlier and set the microwave to 23 seconds. Then decided to cancel it and reset it for 26 seconds.
April 7, 2021
- up late at 7. boys slept in.
- late breakfast - 5 min late to preschool drop off
- played & tidied upstairs. filled 1 bag for the trash
- dishwasher, diaper laundry, fixed chair
- picked up. library drop off.
- prepared chicken drummies for dinner
- outside play
- Listening: Numberphile Podcast, The Daily, Best Show, I Should Be Writing, The Incomparable, Slow & Low (Tetsu Inoue)
- Watching: Rambalac
Collected an entire 13 gallon trash bag of randomness to throw away. I do this on occasion when nobody else is home - but don’t tell anyone. To my kids reading this some day, “I’m not sorry.”
April 6, 2021 DAILY
- out of bed 6:45. LW
- girls out the door. Fox slept in.
- bagel, egg scramble, greens, cereal
- outside play
- lunch out back at picnic table
- nap failures; loud wind and work on roof next door
- living room play; ladder play; upstairs play; PBS kids
- back outside. Girls home. Sonic. Suzuki practice
- bedtimes. Magic Fireplace. ordered weed eater string. reading.
- in bed 11
- Listening: The Daily, Upgrade, The Incomparable, FiveThirtyEight Politics, Micro Monday
I love when my automatic lighting routines that I have set up run at their appointed times and there is nobody old enough that is home to disrupt their perfection and guidance.
TIL the dad from That 70’s Show was the Klingon Chancellor in Star Trek VI. Which is weird.
McDonald’s breakfast for GOOD FRIDAY. It is a Good FRIDAY indeed.
I get a small moment of joy by going through the day’s Netflix TOP 10 and giving everything a THUMBS DOWN rating.
First vaccine dose this morning. The beginning of the end.
FORTNITE sponsoring many of the Apple nerd-o-sphere podcasts I listen to has been a weird thing this week. 1) It’s such a well known thing worldwide, compared to many sponsors of smaller podcasts. 2) It’s almost like they’re trying to troll Apple as a follow up to their App Store conflict.
What does it mean when you’re doing the crossword puzzle on a Friday evening?
Playing Animal Crossing - dug up all of Gulliver’s missing communicator parts on the beach - and then kept them all so we can let them rust to build a robot.
Feel ever so slightly guilty about that.
I explained to my 3 year old son why it’s better to watch Cocomelon on Netflix instead of Youtube because we don’t have to watch ads - and that Youtube is free because people pay them to run ads.
This might be peak dad.
I am so sick and tired of the republican claim that conservatives are being censored online. It is so so so so SO bogus. And they know it.
Trying to experiment with just using the iPad for all my kitchen counter computing. Would be so much better w/ the newer model of Magic Keyboard, although using a mouse with iPadOS is pretty righteous. Is that still a thing people say?
You know its the truth. You know it deep in your bones.
Why does mommy shark have to be smaller than daddy shark?
It’s funny how when you’re watching an older show in standard def, and your data cap runs out, you don’t even notice the drop in picture quality due to the slower connection.
My daughter visited someone’s Star Trek DS-9 themed Animal Crossing island today. Which is AWESOME. They had a bunch of custom designed portraits of all the major characters. And Federation uniforms in Abel Sisters.
OUR POWER HAS RETURNED. After 35 hours of outage, you never know how much you love and rely on something until it’s gone.
I tonight started watching a South Korean movie, “Burning.” It is good; it does also feature some adult situations, so parental discretion is advised.
I felt the fleeting desire to pick up my guitar and play and sing today.
If you can just play the right music … who knows what might happen.
TX is just a very large collection of small villages and clans and tribes and main street no name towns. Formed into weird conglomerates and metros.
TX is an abbreviation for the US state of TEXAS.
Getting around to watching the final season of The Good Place.
There’s a thing here in TX called “Mother’s Day Out” that is sort of a hybrid daycare/preschool/drop-in childcare. It’s often abbreviated “MDO.” I find these things funny, for whatever reason.
Update: my contract was expiring, so I elected to switch electricity providers. The new provider is giving me 2 smart thermostats, which is cool and good. Also, Fox started at a new pre-k today.
On occasion you decide take the luxury of an afternoon rest - but then you race against the very fabric of space and time to get done everything that the day requires.
Wait - that isn’t a description of a special occasion - it’s just how every one regular old day proceeds.
There’s something so serious about encouraging kids to eat vegetables for dinner, and so ridiculous about then yourself eating sugary cereal late at night.
When you start an mp3 playing, you have a sacred obligation to finish that thing a playin.
I sifted through my contacts address book today for the first time in years. Deleted about 300 contacts.
Put away the Christmas tree today. Into a giant new bag that is Christmas colored. A relief. Made new wolfsweat juice to get through the afternoons without having to eat all the cookie dough every day.
Up with the baby. That is all.
In the past 58 days I’ve misplaced two different Swiss Army knives in my house. This is very disconcerting.
If you promise not to tell anyone else, I’ll tell you a secret: … There are finely ground up mushrooms in the recently made meatballs.
COVID 19 update #8 - You do the dishes. You watch the TV episode and eat the nachos. You adjust the lighting. And it is enough.
What does it mean that all the state capitols were ready for armed protests - and, at most, a dozen people showed up? 3 showed up in Iowa.
This morning I bought turnips for 95 bells. Hoping for one of those 445 bell price spikes this week.
The other day I told my wife two things: 1) Netflix was shutting down service to the Wii U; 2) The actor in that show is also a well known rapper. It was like I had remarked upon the cloudy weather outside. She could not possibly have cared less. Which is reasonable.
Thought about folding laundry but decided to play Animal Crossing. Great ending to a sad story. 
Your won’t believe what happened in the episode of Star Trek I just watched. A teleporter accident caused the main crew members to be beamed into a holosuite program as enemies of the doctor, who was a spy. He had to avoid killing the crew so that their essences could be recovered from the program.
It was amazing.
Important update: in recent days, I’ve discovered that if I get the coffee for the next day ready in the afternoon instead of the evening, I can save time for a critical juncture in the day when I’m often pressed for time and seeking peace and not more random stuff to do.
President Trump was booted permanently from Twitter this evening. The world feels different to me somehow after this. I feel a sense of relief, but also an odd uncertainty and displacement.
Did Grimes also move to TX? That is a much bigger deal than that other guy moving to TX.
My 3 y/o has this concept of the “small bite.” It’s not a “small bite” in the traditional sense. His definition is like biting just a few molecules off of something.
The experience of a 5 y/o and a 3 y/o playing Animal Crossing together is incredibly grating and frustrating. Sandpaper across my soul. Why must it be so difficult??
Getting the baby out for a walk around the neighborhood this morning.
Arrived via warp 7 at S4 of Deep Space Nine while doing dishes tonight. Why did they change the theme song? Adding that small underlying pulse ruins the rubato feel of the original theme. For shame.
This is just to say: I was awake when the calendar turned over to 2021. As evidenced by the time stamp on this note. Many fireworks went off in our area and I thought the kids would wake. Also, we couldn’t see the Animal Crossing NYE countdown because our Resident Center hadn’t been upgraded.
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2020
Spent a lot of the morning cleaning. Secretly threw away 2 garbage bags of misc toys. Don’t tell my kids. If you’re one of my children reading this in the future, No, I’m not sorry.
Speaking of preferences, I’m mostly not a “Binge watch an entire season in a weekend” kind of person. I like when episodes are trickled out weekly-like Expanse S5 now. There’s a rhythm to it and drama in the waiting.
I’ve always been a “Shower in the evening” person. If you’re a “Shower in the morning person,” I get it - but you’re still wrong! Going to sleep on clean sheets is the only way to live.
I have an idea I can’t shake - that on rainy, cold, icy, evenings, I am safer, because people who might be out to harm me will stay home b/c of the bad weather.
Watching THE MANDALORIAN S2
Henlo friends and world
COVID 19 update #7: A lot has happened since my last update. I met someone for coffee for the first time - which probably wasn’t the greatest idea, but you do it anyway sometimes. It’s wonderful Christmas time - having a concrete reason to do our own family Christmas is nice. Two new sections of back yard fence. Yesterday the soccer ball was kicked over the newest of them.
Coffee with a friend at Race Street Coffee. First time meeting up with someone in public since March. Hope it was alright. Good coffee. Now I have a fancy coffee shop paper cup to use for a few days.
This should appear at 7 AM if everything goes well. Good luck out there little buddy.
This should ALSO appear at 7 AM if all went well. Good luck out there little buddy.
Wonder sometimes what portion of my personality and actions boil down simply to “Coffee consumption.”
Hello from my phone
Technology updates: I rolled back to Mojave on my old unsupported Mac, thanks to a series of nagging Catalina bugs. My neighbor gifted me an HDMI cable. TV update: I found out that Midnight Diner & Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories are separate shows in Netflix.
COVID-19 update #6: We have accrued an incredible amount of plastic bags left over from school lunch pickups. I’ve been watching David Lynch’s weather reports on YT. The splint on my injured hand got cut back above the wrist today. It’s not always coffee in dads coffee cup.
Graduation happening for Marielle’s school today. At TX Motor Speedway. Cool place to graduate, all things considered. She’s helping. Getting an officially branded school mask.
I’m pretty jealous of the astronauts today, because leaving the planet for a few days seems like a fine option right now. 
Current status: sitting in the backyard, tending the fire, working on my stretching finger. Everyone else is in the tent, camping out in the yard, watching Cars.
Caught my finger in my dog’s halter a few weeks ago and haven’t been able to move the tip of my finger since. Finally went to the doc today. Heading in for tendon surgery tomorrow morning. Having even a 50% working extra finger will be awesome.
My wife is at a senior high school celebration event. Which is great. but it also looks like a football tailgater and not a responsible event held in the context of a pandemic.
Why??????
My daughter just invited me to meet her at her skeleton horse ranch. In Minecraft, of course.
Just now considered watching THE WIRE again. I watched it all back in 2008. What a ride it was then. Plus Prime Video plays it in the new 16:9 reformatted version. Then again, do I have time to watch a TV show through??
COVID-19 update #5: I am eating lots of bread. This is the only time in the past decade I have truly wished for a printer. I fill the house with the sounds of distant talking.
COVID 19 update #4 - my daughter can’t find the way back to her ranch in Minecraft. The dog is having the time of his life. My middle son started calling Swiss Cake Rolls “Wonderpants.” The baby is nearly crawling.
COVID-19 update #3 - It is Monday. It is Monday. IT IS MONDAY - not Saturday or Sunday. Monday. I discovered that the mark that indicates the toaster setting is in a difference spot that I’d previously thought - so I’ve been toasting everything wrong.
COVID-19 update #2: the kids' preschool is set to reopen 3/30 pending any orders from on high. With curbside drop off only. Parents not allowed in the building. Also, we haven’t eaten all the falafel. It is raining again and again and again.
COVID 19 update 1: we are making fallafel today. The robot vacuum ran on MAX mode and couldn’t find its way home. I am formulating an arrangement of MARVELOUS LIGHT in my head I hope to finish soon.
There was a coffee shop in Iowa City around 2004-I think it was called Hennepin Coffee-it was downtown at Iowa Ave and Linn-they served coffee in pint beer glasses with cardboard sleeves to protect from the heat.
Me: Why do you enjoy causing me so much grief?
Daughter: haha yes. Grief is a funny word.
Odd STAR WARS moment I will most remember from SKYWALKER RISE: the chimp expertly welding together Kylo Ren’s helmet. Where did that guy come from?
Finally saw the latest STAR WARS. It was fine. I honestly wanted to see it mostly so I could listen to the podcasts about it in my back catalog. But as an evening out, it was fun times.
Watching the STAR WARS prequels for the first time since they were in theaters. These movies are not as bad as the purists would have you believe. Come on now, people.
My wife, in her infinite wisdom, looked at the offical calendar and discovered that the kids don’t return to school until tomorrow. Right as I was getting geared up to get them ready and out the door.
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2019
Don’t share this with anyone - but I often will purposefully smack my lips loudly when eating alone. I forget whether I’ve ever shared this before - but like I said, please keep it to yourself.
Where Alan Jackson comes from they’re trying hard to get to heaven, but that’s not how heaven works.
Now beginning to admit that I guess I like science fiction. Watching BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - and I’ll be up all night Friday watching the new season of THE EXPANSE.
Space drama!
Watched the Disney+ version of STAR WARS last night. Can’t get enough of M’CLUNKEY. Funniest thing I’ve seen in my entire life.
One of my favorite #impeachmenthearings details: David Holmes being able to clearly hear President Trump’s voice without being on speaker while Sondland held it away from his face. We’ve all met people with voices like that - that just carry without effort - so perfectly fits the President’s demeanor.
Sondland has been sipping from his coffee cup A LOT - way more than any other witness. Doesn’t mean anything except that he’s going to need to take more frequent bathroom breaks.
I’ve decided to take up the nickname “America’s Mayor.”
I love watching the #ImpeachmentHearings on C-Span because they don’t cut away from the room during breaks - just show the goings on and mannerisms and conversation and what’s generally happening among folks. Just people milling around.
Watching one of the thousand BARBIE shows on Netflix. Learned that her last name is Roberts, in the universe of this particular show at least. She also used the word “adulting” when describing to her parents why her new job would prevent her from going on the family vacation.
More kids in DFW North Texas are named Landry than anywhere in the world. In fact, I’ve never heard the name anywhere but here.
If you gave up on MR ROBOT during S2, you’re missing out. Missing out, I tell you!
Typically, I make one pot of coffee each morning. But every other day I make an extra pot at some point - then drink on it through the evening and save the rest for the next day’s first cup.
AirPods PRO earned the PRO moniker by being completely earwax resistant.
tbh, I care more about the new episodes of LITTLE BABY BUM that just made it to Netflix than any new show or movie they’re releasing.
Found my asparagus tie black rubber band wedding ring in my jeans pocket today. Excited to stop wearing my daughter’s sparkly hair ties as rings. IN OTHER NEWS, listening to R.E.M.
also, I usually bring home the small paper coffee cup from church and use it as my bathroom water cup for that entire upcoming week.
Going to be that guy: why would I watch an NFL game when I could be watching another beautiful episode of Rick Steves’ Europe?
I love sauce. That is all. Just sauce all the time on everything. Give me the sauce.
First outing just me and the kids, plus the baby. To Cabela’s. Fun but nervous.
There’s a kid named Enzo playing on the nearby field. There’s also a woman drinking Topo Chico from a plastic bottle. Not her own bottle, but the same one that the beverage came in. It’s windy.
Loving iOS 13.1 - and especially the updates to Shortcuts. Outstanding, yet little heralded.
Eagerly anticipating Ken Burns Jr’s 2067 documentary “SoundCloud Rap.”
Discovered in a pile of papers a drawing my daughter made. Took my breath away for a second because of all the large piercing eyes in it.
I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
This baby is coming TODAY
The Battle of Who Could Care Less stick in my head today. Good tune.
Remember the cheese curds we had at that place? Yes i do - THE BUFFALO
Yesterday I learned from Rick Steves (#YILFRS): 80 million people live in Germany, a country the size of Montana.
Lets talk about the arm wrestling scene from Twin Peaks. Tell you what: that’s something worth talking about.
You just don’t want to go outside when it’s 100 or more. Can’t figure out much to do right now.
112 heat index. Power company email asks to raise your thermostat by 4 degrees. My wife says that that’s directed at “normal” people who keep it set at 70. I set ours at 82.
How many people have converted to Catholicism because Father Brown is such an awesome detective?
Wish I would’ve put off learning to ride the pedal bike until fall.
Unfortunately I didn’t get around to watching that TV I said I would.
In other news: an asteroid almost smashed into earth yesterday. A city killer. Filed in the department of existential threats that aren’t going away.
What’re you guys up to tonight? I’m giving kids baths and watching TV.
The window cleaner who suddenly appears in S3E14 of Twin Peaks is doing the worst squeegee work I’ve ever seen.
Trip to NE Mall today. Hoooooooot our today. CCF Big Give post today. Today today today is a day.
This morning our dog got out - chased a lady halfway up the block - then foolishly stopped to poop in the yard across the street, which is how I caught him.
Band name idea: Paw.
The problem is that I want to have ALL of the entertainment experiences. The trap of the modern world.
Catching up with all the WWDC info - actually pretty exciting that I could now sync a PS4 controller to ATV.
Watching Harry Potter.
Watched the Titus Andronicus live stream and prestige sitcom today. Like those guys a lot.
I don’t have time to watch TV—and that stinks an ever so slight bit.
Low end estimates are that Emily Dickinson spent a third of her life sleeping, a half writing letters, and a half writing poems.
My old copy of the debut Vampire Weekend album (that fell off the back of a truck) had the wrong track order and included an extra song. Now I’ve got the correct album. My wrong version was better.
Another downside to listening to your music exclusively on a streaming service: loss of privacy - you tell a big company everything about how, when, and where you listen to your music - also, obviously, What you listen to - and how often and how many times.
I don’t care much that the recent glut of Marvel movies are “ending.” They’re bloated and long and tiresome. Also, they’ll never actually end. Hollywood played nerds like a fiddle.
In about 90 minutes, will have finished listening to all 15 Shostakovich string quartets. My favorites remain #3 in F, #5 in Bb, #15 in Ebm.
Used filtered water from the fridge to make the coffee this morning. This is the great stuff of life. Hot off the presses news and content.
“Walking in your footsteps” Walking in your hoofprints Walking in your bootstraps Walking in your tweetstorms Walking in your gene reports Walking in your flop sweat
Joke my daughter told today: “Birdseeds.”
PLEASE please please please - let Nintendo be appearing again at next week’s Apple event. Get Miyamoto up there to announce MarioKart.
Watching kids Jeopardy - for one daily double the girl wagered $150 - for another, the boy wagered $10. Ten dollars.
I think each neighborhood should have at least 1 public printer, so people can successfully get the 1 thing each year they need printed.
I would like to publicly apologize to my brother in law for judging the stained-ness of his thermal coffee carafe - we’ve had one for awhile, and now ours is by faaaaar more stained than his was. I didn’t know the truth then, but now I do. I was wrong and I’m sorry.
I would like to revise my opinion of the new Vampire Weekend tune “Harmony Hall.” My kids like it and its grown on me in weeks since release. I like it.
Band name idea: 5G Rollout
“Blackbird”" came on my playlist and my daughter recognized it as Tim’s song in BOSS BABY - so now we’re watching BOSS BABY.
My wife made muffins this morning - they’re amazing - but I didn’t know it was possible to make that many dirty dishes early in the morning.
Recently I learned that in Hawaii they have a name for when it rains while still sunny: The wolf is giving birth.
I came up with a great new name for a small batch whiskey: Old Fantastic. Go ahead and use the name if you want.
I would like some kind of augmented reality situation where people passing by could see a pop up display of what book I’m reading on my e-reader.
Watching today: Slow TV: Bergen to Oslo - a 7 hour train ride.
What does it mean that the Apostle Paul, and a fair amount of his friends, believed that Jesus was about to return at any moment?
Right now debating what to do tonight - try to get a few more Bandersnatch endings, watch Buster Scruggs, watch Nausicaa, watch Batman Begins, or start a replay of Chrono Trigger.
Doing dishes. This has been my greatest success of 2019 so far. Lots of dishes done.
Is it “She’ll be riding” or “She’ll be driving” Six White Horses when she comes? Got to be driving, right? One can’t ride six horses at the same time.
My wife keeps telling me “Use up the old coffee BEFORE you open the new.” But life is short and difficult.
Is there anything worse than the way Messenger tries so hard to keep you in the app when you tap a link? Feels desperate - the way they hide the Open in Safari button is criminal.
One can’t respond to the PCO request too soon after it’s issued. Gotta let em stew and wonder just a bit.
Listening to Leonard Cohen today. Planning to listen to Einstein on the Beach later this evening.
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2018
Do I enjoy Snapchat more than the cluttered & claustrophobic IG? Yes. Are there more folks who might enjoy and interact and see what I say/shoot on IG? Yes. Am I still mad at FB/IG for wholesale ripping off Snap stories? Yes.
Bob Dylan’s Christmas album - man it’s bad - his croaking voice is not a fit for Little Drummer Boy or carols.
Listening to a 7 hour 80s soft rock playlist today. Winner of a playlist. Great one playlist.
Cooooooold here in FW TX today. Of course, cold is relative - but I’m surprised to what extent I’ve already adjusted to the weather norms here.
Listening to Rich Mullins this morning - A Liturgy, A Legacy, A Ragamuffin Band. Let’s talk about how mediocre a song is Awesome God, and how great a songwriter was R Mull.
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