These cookies are where it’s at. 🍪

I don’t know who you are, but I want to be your friend.

Currently reading: [Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire](https://micro.blog/books/9781423154389) by Rick Riordan 📚

Finished reading: [The Red Pyramid](https://micro.blog/books/9781423142492) by Rick Riordan 📚

Epilogue book search is not working for me.

Time to make some sauce.

Last week was busy flying solo while dw traveled to see her sister in San Diego and see the Pink concert.

I managed to mostly finish a new website for my blog yesterday now that I have reinforcements.

It’s 8:30 a.m. on the U.S. west coast and we are moving slow, enjoying family time, drinking coffee, playing with legos.

Hulu w/commercials price going up to $9.99/mo. Those commercials are like 2-3 minutes long every time now, too. Remember when the commercial version was free?

Picking my wife up from the airport this morning because it was $75 before tip to take a Lyft when she left on Tuesday. Just insane.

Getting ever so slightly more confident with web development in Ghost. Still have some visual tweaks I need to make, but the micro/photo [blog](https://afterword.blog/) I’ve been building is finally where I want it to be functionally, for the most part. No idea why I had such a hard time.

Nearly forgot about this album by fellow Michigan natives Taproot. [Gift](https://music.apple.com/us/album/emotional-times/301645679?i=301645683) was on heavy rotation in the early 2000s.

One of my biggest irrational fears living with two young kids is that the background blur on my camera goes away during a Teams call.

USPS split my ZIP Code 10 years ago and added a new one, which my house is within. It still causes issues for deliveries. For example, in order to get deliveries from the local IKEA, I have to psych out the system by entering the old ZIP for delivery address, and my new ZIP for billing. 10 years!

Since I’ve been having some issues with my Leviton smart switches, I decided to get a few Matter enabled light bulbs. I know this was the promise of Matter, but setup was a breeze compared to the switches. Here’s to hoping they last—physically, and from a firmware perspective.

I liked the look of these clouds.

When the office mini split is right above your cube. I generally run pretty warm, but my ears feel like they’re going to fall off.

In my mind, James Earl Jones is Darth Vader reading the Bible. Growing up, my friend (and the drummer in my band) used to borrow his mom’s van for practice. In it, she had the unabridged Bible on tape, as read by JEJ. I couldn’t separate Vader from the experience of listening. What an icon. RIP.

One thing I like more about Threads over Mastodon and Bluesky is that you can post up to 10 photos, and you just swipe left on the post to see more. This is a winning design, the type that drives adoption. Too bad they don’t show up that way in the fediverse!

Might need to get this one.

How awful, and way too close for comfort in terms of both location and profession.

[Melissa Jubane’s body found, neighbor charged with murder. ](https://www.khon2.com/local-news/we-are-devastated-mother-in-law-of-oregon-woman-murdered-says/amp/)

Not sure how I missed it before, but I watched _Prey_ (2022) tonight, prequel to the Predator series. I needed something I didn’t have to think too much about, and it fit the bill. I’ve always liked hunters as an idea, so my bar is pretty low. For what it was, I enjoyed it.