Finally made it into the Chef Store for the first time and my eyes are at long last awakened to life’s glories.

Habitat ReStore will always be my happy place.

Will never understand people who do Zoom meetings and work calls at coffee shops. That should be a punishable offense. #RemoteWork

One positive about today is that I almost never see anyone smoking anymore. Maybe it’s just an Oregon thing, but when I do see someone light up, I do a double take because it’s so out of place.

When I was about 12, my parents took me and my two brothers to Niagara Falls. The cigarettes in Canada were quite a bit more expensive than in the U.S., so we drove over to Buffalo so they could buy a carton. It took me years to realize I hadn’t gone to New York City!

I dunno if the title of this article made me feel better or worse: “A 5 p.m. sunset is just around the corner for Portland” #pdx https://www.koin.com/weather/a-5-p-m-sunset-is-just-around-the-corner-for-portland/

Booked 4 nights at one of the last remaining campsites on the southern Oregon coast for middle of July. Nothing like having to plan 6 months out to sleep on the ground. #oregon #camping #hiking #parks #pnw

Followed one conservative on the bird site this morning and within 10 seconds I saw a promoted tweet that was just the tailgate of a truck with the words “F#%^ Joe Biden and F%#^ You for Voting for Him”.

Every day while I’m standing at my standing desk.
#applewatch #apple

Sometimes I have a really hard time not thinking that the entire hiring process for men is really just panelists thinking:

“Wow, he’s tall. He must know what he’s talking about. We should hire/promote him.”

I know, I’m jaded.

“But one problem with pinning everything on Elon is that it leaves open the possibility that maybe Twitter would be fine if the company was led by a different CEO who continued the Twitter API status quo. I don’t think so. Twitter wasn’t going to last forever because massive ad-based silos will always be at odds with the open web. Twitter’s recent implosion greatly accelerated what would need to happen regardless.” https://www.manton.org/2023/01/17/more-brief-thoughts.html

Do I have to use my employer-sponsored FSA administrator? I get that it’s pre-tax deductions from my paycheck, but this just seems strange that I don’t have a choice. Honestly I don’t like my retirement savings administrators either.

Last night I found this photo from 1986 in my grandmother’s belongings. It’s of me and my brother. I’d never seen it before.

Everyone always says how much my son looks like my wife, so I was blown away by how much I look like him here. I was just a little bit older than he is now.

My dad left us when I was two. I feel so bad for him that he missed out on what it’s like to be a father to such an exceptional little human.

Now that the Big Bang Theory is drawing greater scrutiny as observations from the James Webb Space Telescope come in, what are some of the plausible alternatives? #astronomy #cosmology #bigbang #space #universe #jwst #nasa

I imagine for most people, watching video walking tours on YouTube is about as interesting as watching paint dry. But as a planner, they are pretty zen sometimes. #urbanist

I wish there was a wearable activity tracker that looked more like the old Jawbones. So tired of having digital watches on my arm. I just want to wear a classic timepiece and a bracelet with no screen.

I don’t know that I’ll ever fully adjust to the fact that you’ve gotta reserve campsites 6 months ahead in Oregon. You just gotta chance a random weekend and hope other plans don’t come up, or better luck next year.

“I just feel like there must had been a time when the world had more...you know? Like mystery or something and now you come somewhere like this and it's beautiful and you take a picture and then you realize that everybody is taking that exact same picture from that exact same spot, you just made some redundant content for stupid Instagram and you can't even get lost anymore cause you can find yourself on Google Maps.” 2/2 #thewhitelotus

Finished The White Lotus on HBO last night. Surprisingly, it sucked me in and held my attention to the end.

As much hate as I’m now seeing online about her, I loved the Portia character. One quote in particular caught me right in the feels. 1/2

52° and partly sunny. We’ll take it for January in Portland. #pdx

Really trying to reign in my gear acquisition syndrome (GAS), but heck if I don’t want a Fender Princeton Reverb Tone Master #fender #amplifiers

Power went out last night, so I woke up trying to suck air through a CPAP hose that wasn’t providing me with air. The whole house got bad sleep because of it. I would be married with kids without my sleep machine, true story.

Hanging out with my daughter on this #mlk day.

4yo getting out of the tub:

“Dad, can you unwet me?”

“You mean dry you?”

“Yeah, dry me!”