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Somewhat to my surprise, I still cry - even after more than 20 years of marriage - when the mister goes out of town on a long trip.

I've been to two PyCons - 2024 and 2025.

So it was the mister's birthday a couple weeks ago, and I bought him one of those "neck lights" - the kind you'd use for knitting, but he uses them for reading.

I'm needing a bit of extra, er, encouragement to keep off the Fediverse at the moment, and I thought some of you out there might be in the same boat, and I wanted to share the app I use for that: focusedOS I think there are lots of apps out there that will

And here we are, heading into the week that has no days.

I've been busy baking sweets to go in the "Christmas Boxes" I send to family, and yesterday I made some cookies and iced them with royal icing.

I learned two things today that have created a kind of seismic shift in my workflow: You can put custom fonts on the iPad Adobe Illustrator works superbly on the iPad now 1 is a little convoluted; you do need an additional program to get them on there.

In my efforts to never buy from Amazon, I restocked our toilet paper from Target this week.

Straight kombucha is too hard on my system, but I've been enjoying mixing it with San Pellegrino.

Went to a holiday party out in Agoura Hills last night.

I have a knitting project - a hat, to be exact - that has been sitting in my drawer unfinished because I can't bring myself to pick up stitches around the edge to do the brim.

Such odd feelings this morning.

I've moved this site to Pelican, and away from 11ty.

I'm now two versions behind on the iPad Pro, so today's announcement was of interest to me in a big way.

Why can't cookbooks get all the things right?

Around the beginning of the year, I realized that every morning, the first image I had of myself was me dressed in a ratty old t-shirt.

The mister has put on the Eras tour movie as music to work by today.

Rarely can I resist answering geeky surveys like the one currently making the rounds, so here are my default apps at the moment: Bookmarks: Raindrop Browser: Arc (but trying out Orion) Budgeting: YNAB Calendar: Fantastical Chat: Messages Cloud File Storag…

I try very hard to apply the verb reading to books I listen to as audiobooks, but the word still lands jarringly, even with my heroic internal efforts to cushion its crash.

I got contacts last week.

When I was small, I liked to make my Halloween costumes.

Getting our picnic ready for tonight - Wynton Marsalis "All Rise" at the Hollywood Bowl.

ARGH.

I'm into the discovering-the-quirks phase of starting to use ClickUp, but I haven't run into any dealbreakers yet, which is heartening.

I've used Todoist for forever, but it's just not working for me any more - I can't visualise the big picture with just lists.

Ugh ugh ugh.

YAY YAY YAY!

Busy busy busy on picnic-making for our outing this evening.

Bella Luna's day today, full of dreams and plans.

Eating a peach and reciting poetry in my head.

To his credit, though, it does smell damn good.

There are plumbers in the apartment.

Ugh.

Just saw three riot police transport vehicles go by - fully loaded.

how do i, I mean, how is this, I can't even you children, you scions, this is your world - sieze it, grasp it, what are you going to do with it?!

I just hooked up Obsidian and Readwise, and I have to say, this feels like a game-changer.

Pandemic Pentimenti: So strange to walk through the city and see all the fading marks on sidewalks and entryways, each dutifully 6 feet away from the next, reminding us of where we were not so very long ago.

Opening the second bottle of wine, wondering "how is it that I am not French?"

[husband editing in the loft, which means listening to the same 2 second clip of audio over and over and over and over and over. and over. and. over.]

Been trying to bang out a brief essay for a gallery application, and have been making zero headway for days.

This is your captain.