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I really needed a day off from work, so I took one.

Weather Your thoughts are just weather that happens to you.

Recently I’ve met a couple men on what I’ve started thinking of as “the tech to therapy pipeline.”

Four more Book Bingo books SPL Book Bingo 2025, Books 10–13 More Book Bingo quickies.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert SPL Book Bingo 2025, Book 8: Disability So I actually didn’t even know that I’d be able to put Get A Life, Chloe Brown in a book bingo square.

Well, asked and answered: who’s afraid of gender?

One Of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon SPL Book Bingo 2025, Book 9: Dystopia I’m doing this out of order and skipping books 7 and 8 for now, because I just finished this one and wanted to get my thoughts down while they’re swirling around.

3 More Book Bingo Books I am still plugging away at Book Bingo, possibly vaguely attempting to get a blackout (by filling all 24 squares) this year.

a meander about writing and language Recently I wrote about how an essay I read, 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing, made me want to write more.

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

I’ve been trying more often to read novels with no knowledge about their plot.

Recently I had a pretty delightful conversation that started from the question “What’s your lesbian necromancer science-fantasy book?”

"The Mountain Goats Rhythm" is called a Tresillo Today I learned that the rhythm that I have just thought of as “the Mountain Goats rhythm,” the one that goes “ONE-two-three-ONE-two-three-ONE-two,” is actually called a “tresillo.”

No creature loiters nonchalantly like a crow.

This weekend I spent a little time updating my Sit Spot page, a page about literally doing nothing over and over.

Since circumstances in my life require that I spend way more time than I want thinking about AI, I figure at least I can maybe get a blog post out of it.

I didn’t finish my Book Bingo posts — and maybe I will sometime but maybe I won’t — but participating in Book Bingo got me back in the habit of reading instead of aimlessly browsing the internet, at least some of the time.

Note: This is the ninth in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

Note: This is the first in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2022 Book Bingo.

This is the first in what may be an erratic and inconsistent seriesBy “may be” I mean it may or may not be a series at all.

Soldering I fear this decade’s project is repair.

Fall; Or, A Neal Stephenson Fan In Hell Warning: this post will contain lots of spoilers about Neal Stephenson’s novel Fall; Or, Dodge In Hell.

The Breath Mints.

Wingspan's Brilliant Learning Mechanism Recently I played Wingspan with my mom and brother.

Who Wants A 2020 Retrospective?

A System Font Stack Allow me to indulge for a bit in some bloviating about the design of this blog, the thing that bloggers love most to do.

My (Current) Favorite Game, My Favorite Critic: A Case Study My latest thing is playing the shit out of Dead Cells, finally.

Foraged & Found CSA: Week 3 Week 2 of the Foraged and Found Edibles CSA has come and gone.

Foraged & Found CSA: Week 2 It’s the weekend after week 2 of the Foraged and Found Edibles CSA, so time to review what I made with the week’s haul.

Foraged & Found CSA: Week 1 I signed up for a six-week CSACommunity Supported Agriculture, basically a delivery service for getting produce from a local farm.

2019 Retrospective After giving up on my pointless-feeling year-end music posts a few years ago, I wrote a more general retrospective last year and it turned out to be a worthwhile endeavor.

SPL Book Bingo Book 6: The Fire Next Time This is the sixth in my series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2019 Book Bingo, which ended on September 3rd; I did get a bingo, but neglected to submit the card before the deadline.

SPL Book Bingo Book 5: No One Will See Me Cry This is the fifth in my series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s 2019 Book Bingo.

SPL Book Bingo 4: Sisters This is the fourth book in my series of posts about Seattle Public Library’s 2019 Book Bingo.

SPL Book Bingo 3: My Age of Anxiety This is the third book in my series of posts about Seattle Public Library’s 2019 Book Bingo.

SPL Book Bingo 2: The Beatrix Gates This is the second in a series of posts about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s Book Bingo.

SPL Book Bingo Book 1: Hybrid Child This is the first in what will, I hope, be a series of at least 4 entries in this blog about books I read for Seattle Public Library’s Book Bingo.

A Whale's Lantern Collaboration Process I recently participated in a collaboration set up on Mastodon by a mysterious entity known only as “A Whale’s Lantern” or “The Whale” for short, who paired me with a total stranger so that I could work with them to…

2018 Retrospective I used to do year-end best music posts, but it started to feel a bit silly when most or all of my list every year was just stuff that could be found on any of the countless other lists put out earlier by people who had actual deadlines…

Spacemacs to Doom Migration I’ve been trying out Doom Emacs recently, because I guess I can’t go more than like 2 years without wanting to throw my current text editing situation out the window and replace it with a new one.

Bayesian In-toot-ition Someone in the Fediverse tootedThe Fediverse is, loosely speaking, a constellation of open source social media replacements, of which Mastodon, on which I have an account, is one.

A Different Kind of Freedom February My employer Bonanza has an interesting employee benefit called “Freedom February,” where during that month every employee gets a week’s worth of free days off and some cash to offset the cost of using those days to take

Songwriting "Process" I’ve written, recorded and released into the wild about a dozen completely original songs, but I still don’t really have a process for writing them, or at least not a conscious one.

Wheel Turn 2 or, the Mountain Goats' "Heel Turn 2" Is Going To Get Me Killed, Or Save My Life Get stomped like a snake Lie down in the dirt I have, mercifully, been doored only once in the approximately twelve years I’ve been cycling as my primary mode of…

A Crow Looked At Me Every once in a while a music album comes along that just consumes me for a little while.