Took my son to Through the Veil yesterday. They sell these terrifying little monsters.

Hillsboro has the best parks.

One of the craziest things I’ve ever learned is that large areas of the Middle East are desert due to soil salinity caused by human activity — irrigation.

By far the best feature of both Threads and Bluesky is “Hide Reply for Everybody”. The fact Mastodon comments persist even after a block is a big mark against ActivityPub.

Continuing my digital declutter from last week where I deleted 80 apps from my iPhone, this week I’ve deleted 56 more.

I swear, of the parents we meet out here on the Westside of Portland, probably close to a third of the dads are QA engineers at Intel.

Of all the funny pronunciations from my daughter, my favorites are “chechup” (ketchup), “banch” (band-aid), and “nonuck” (yogurt). Always makes me smile.

It’s not every day two bands I love pop up at the same venue within two days of each other. It’s gonna be a rough week! I wonder if they’ll let me bring a lawn chair.

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 by Rick Riordan 📚

Finished reading: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan 📚

Epilogue book search is not working for me.

Time to make some sauce.

The only bad thing about storing all the spooky Halloween stuff in the attic is that I have to go into the creepy attic to get it back out…

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 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 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.