I’m getting excited about Ghost’s implementation of ActivityPub. I have used it to micro blog, but it doesn’t work well out of the box, so I had to create a highly customized theme. But it now looks like they’re working on short form posts and separate feeds for long vs short posts.

Currently reading: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson 📚

I wonder how often dogs are just like “I wish these people would quiet down already.” And then anytime they bark we’re shushing them. We don’t deserve them.

Analyzing the American Dream as an American living in Germany. From usa.mom.in.germany. 🇩🇪

Meanwhile, 100 ft of Christmas lights barely scratches the surface when it comes to decking the halls with holiday cheer. Gonna need to make another HD run.

Currently reading: Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by Gabriel García Márquez 📚

I wonder what kind of clientele they’re going for with that agency name.

Finished reading: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 📚

Woke up to 30° in PDX and lots of frost. I’m a wimp in the cold these days. 🥶

What happens if we cut Alaska in half? Texas becomes the third largest state.

Rereading Jane Jacobs: Reflections on “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” https://lowvelocity.org

There’s always those people who email you something right before the weekend or heading into a holiday with a message that sits with you the whole time, stressing you out when you’re supposed to be relaxing. To hell with those people.

Lions win ! But not without stressing me TF out! 🏈

Turkey and football. Lions have lost the last 7 Thanksgiving games. I think this year will be different. #onepride 🦁 🏈

My cheese sauce/roux recipe for Mac n cheese:

6 Tbsp butter, 1/4 grated onion, 2 cloves minced garlic, 2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1/4 tsp Cheyenne pepper, 2 tsp dry mustard, 3.5 cups milk, 1.75 cups heavy cream, 8 oz cubed aged white cheddar, 6 tbsp flour, dash of worscestershire. 👨‍🍳

Scoping out urban condos, when 5+ units in the same building hit the market at the same time, you just know the HOA fee has gone through the roof to fund some deferred maintenance capital investment.

Last night I went to my second writers meetup at Lucky Lab beer hall in NW Portland. Meeting some really friendly and fun people. I can see this becoming a weekly thing.

Finished rereading: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 📚

I never feel more like a stereotypical middle aged dad than when I’m turning off every single light and fan in the house before I leave for work. I need more smart switches.

One thing I absolutely cannot understand about the left is how the party platform has switched from being protectionist to now being apparently pro global free trade? It’s a strange time to be alive.

I don’t think many people on the Right understand just how much low interest rates under the last administration contributed to inflation. Many people did cash-out refinances to fund renovations, pay off cars, go on vacations, pay off student debt…~$650 billion worth from 2017-2021.

I’m really hard on my glasses, so a year ago I sent in my Warby Parkers to Eyeglasses.com and had the lenses replaced with real glass. One of the best purchase decisions I’ve made in recent memory. Not a single scratch. They’d have been scratched all to hell by now with polycarbonate.

Spent time in Dundee and Newberg today with our friend Penny and her boy. Had perhaps the second best Reuben of my life at Red Hills Market. Fell on my ass on a muddy hill at Herbert Hoover Disc Golf Course (this name cracks me up). Swam for a couple hours at Chehalem Aquatic Center. Was a good day.

The failure rate of Shazam has gone way up since Apple acquired it.