Let me muddle this age-old question somewhat by presenting today’s lunch result:
This is what happens when it’s lunchtime, you’re down to the last of the Zenners franks, the last slice of provolone, and you have no hot dog buns. Grab a bagel! Slice the frank lengthwise and make a sandwich out of it! Ahaha, I am clever. I know this because Vyx said so when I showed her the picture.
I certainly wasn’t expecting to cross paths with a frog on the way home this afternoon.
Little critter was just minding its business, hanging out on the sidewalk along the very, very busy 185th Street. I almost didn’t notice it in time to stop and take some pictures. As it is, I had to use the digital zoom on my phone to get anything decent. The moment I crept a bit closer to try for a shot with better detail, sproing! Off they went, back under the bramble and toward the creek.
Absolutely the highlight of my day, I tell you what.
I’ve been slacking off again. Whoops.
Let’s see, what news is there what’s fit to print? Not much, really… I removed a few games from my rotation for various reasons, I set the hummingbird feeder up outside but I don’t expect to get many customers (and still have no good way to see them even if I do, since the “patio” is outside the sliding glass doors the curtains to which we keep always closed because the neighboring house is right there), I had to disable a plugin on this website for a while (and it may not come back), I’m making decent progress at the story slog in Warframe, I have a mini-staycation coming up in a few days, the months-long work project (the NinjaOne migration) is (essentially) over, and… yeah, that’s about it other than some family stuff that isn’t really “public consumption” information anyway.
I haven’t even touched Satisfactory in weeks. Let’s be real, though, the occasional break from that game is just plain healthy. I’ll be back to it soon enough. Possibly even during my staycation. We’ll see…
This morning I shut down and deleted the virtual server which was running the Matrix server I set up for family chats. (Think “Discord, but not run by a corporate entity.”) Nobody was using it, and if I hadn’t directly pinged the last two family members besides myself who had even looked at it I bet they wouldn’t have noticed for a while.
I had the perfect domain name for it and everything. Now I just need to come up with another project to attach that name to… much the same as with several other domains that I’m absolutely not relinquishing which I want to do things with in the future.
I’m better at building things than I am at building things people actually like, apparently.
It’s been a whole lot of years since I last owned a dining table.
I should explain.
When I moved out of the house, all those years ago, I moved into a townhouse with someone who already had a dining table, so I didn’t need to buy one. Then, when Vyx and I moved into the apartment nearly nine years ago, there wasn’t enough room to justify the wasted space when there was a perfectly functional “bar counter” setup that we could just sit a couple of barstools in front of. Which is what we did!
And then we moved. After nearly a year in this house, which has a similar “bar counter” but without the convenient overhang to make barstool sitting practical, it was time to procure a solution.
And so, here we are.
(more…)I went on a long, long train ride to SE Portland and back last week to visit Dad, who’s in the hospital on account of… well, I’m not entirely sure what got him there but “just plain getting old” is what it boils down to. He may or may not remember that I was there, that’s how out-of-it he was, but I made the trip and did my best. And yes, I kept my Flo Mask on the entire time.
We’re not a close-knit family, but that doesn’t make it any less gut-wrenching to realize that we’re also all just plain getting older. It’s the way of things, I suppose.
