If you had to:

1. Sit through an all-day active shooter training; or,
2. Go on a date with someone whose every Instagram picture is of themselves

What would your choose?

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. But I guess life is just sort of busy now anyways. In no particular order:

• The weather has officially turned over to Fall and we’ve been getting a lot more rain lately. I don’t mind it yet and the cooler weather has been a welcome change. The next couple of days are supposed to be sunny and I’m looking forward to it. 
• My kids and I went to the big box home improvement store and picked up a bunch of Halloween decorations. I dipped into some savings for Christmas because my son is all about this holiday. We got a little witch that dances and sings, a skeleton …

Sono stanco…

I was on a roll cooking and baking this afternoon. Definitely not a healthy food day, but the weather has had me craving comfort food 🥘

Fun new park in the area.

I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, ‘Don’t do it that way. You’ll never make a dime.’

• James Murphy

Snagged a used KitchenAid stand mixer at Goodwill.

Someone out here living my alternate reality dream 😂

Walking around outside the courthouse and there are 4 or 5 wedding parties…I guess Friday the 13th is a popular day to get married.

Leaving for work on my last day after 6 years at this job.

Rolled my ankle today on a walk during my lunch break. It’s sore but very grateful I didn’t tear anything. I did that a few years back and it took over 6 months to heal.

For some reason I have not been able to get the Tinylytics kudos buttons to show up on my Micro.blog posts. I follow the instructions and use the specific plugin for the Tiny theme, inserted the appropriate code in the footer. Alas, nothing. I’m sure it’s just user error but this seems simple.

Looking for fitness trackers for my parents. They’re reasonably tech savvy 60 something’s that use Android phones. Simple is good but we’d like to “compete” to motivate each other. I have an Apple Watch. Looking for wearable and app suggestions that work with both. Any thoughts?

People from Michigan sometimes ask me how I deal with the rainy season in Oregon. What they don’t tell you is how often the clouds break up. I had severe SAD while in the Great Lakes region because the overcast was so low and persistent. Between the evergreens and cloud breaks here, I’m good.

Pretty excited that Duolingo is coming out music and math courses.

Google Maps is always so buggy for me, especially when viewing aerial imagery. Crashes a lot, both on my work computer (Windows) and MBP at home. Sort of shockingly bad given that it’s one of their flagship products.

Last night I went down one of those rabbit holes that led me to watching the Elliott Smith documentary: Heaven Adores You.

I went through my concert tickets and found the one for his show in 1999 at St. Andrew’s hall in Detroit my senior year in high school. Oct 21 marks 20 years since his death.

Setting up my new office space. A little bit darker than my old one, but it’s Fall on Oregon…it’s to be expected. Digging the greenery, though.

Europeans who complain about Americans forget that they made us.

On the list of things I didn’t care for as a child but love now are in-season pears.

We had a really fun weekend, decorating and spending time with friends at their family farm where we got to feed a mule, play putt putt, make apple cider, pet a chicken, and share good food with friends. Happy 40th to our friend Penny.

Where can I get a couple very large boxes for an art project?

I looked at Home Depot and they weren’t large enough. Maybe U-Haul?

Tutti would be an excellent name for an Italian Mastodon client.