Took my 4-year-old to the taco truck tonight. Kid was bugging me about it all week. Definitely my child :)

New Outlook out of office reply:
Sorry I missed your message. My wife is on another Every Plate kick and currently we’re on week 3 of overly involved home cooked meals. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I’m now taking PTO starting at 3 so I can leave work early enough to make sure dinner is ready before bedtime. Thanks for your understanding and happy new year.

Wife is on an Every Plate kick again (like Hello Fresh), and currently we’re on week 3. Someone please just put me out of my misery, double tap to the back of the head. Nothing like having to leave work early just to make sure dinner is ready before the kids’ bedtimes. Think my clients will understand if I use an Outlook out of office reply?

Neat little detail in the #mammoth client.

How do some tech jobs get away with using #architect in their title? I remember some dude who was calling himself an engineer got the smack down from Oregon’s licensure board.

Anyone thinking about going to the APA conference in Philadelphia this year? I’m interested in going, mostly because I’ve never been to Philly before and I like the project related conference tours, but I’m also kinda scared to ask if we have the budget for cross-country travel. Someone give me a marketable excuse :) #urbanplanning #architects #urbanplanners #urbanism #cities #philadelphia #npc23

Got a flu shot and a Covid booster today, one in each arm. 5 hours later, still no ill effects. Hoping I don’t wake up tomorrow with chills or body aches.

I understand hashtags don’t work on M.b but what I don’t understand is why they don’t work when a post that contains them is syndicated elsewhere.

Wish they made the Nissan Leaf in an AWD format. Front end is ugly but I can live with that. Too much trauma from upper Midwest winters to not have AWD though.

Watched White Noise on Netflix last night. Sort of a strange one, but I ended up googling one of the songs being played by a couple in the movie, Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips - The Cloud is Coming - music.apple.com/us/album/…

On a forum I follow, someone posted the ranking of large metros by urban density based on recently released ACS data. Portland was #10. Top 10 are as follows:

1. SF @ 7,626 ppsm
2. LA @ 7,476 ppsm
3. SJ @ 6,436 ppsm
4. NYC @ 5,981 ppsm
5. Vegas @ 5,046 ppsm
6. Miami @ 4,885
7. San Diego @ 4,550
8. Denver @ 4,168
9. Sacramento @ 4,163
10. Portland @ 4,052

Finished reading: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl 📚

Not sure how I ended up following mostly programmers, maybe they’re overrepresented on the indie web?

Sometimes I look at professional musicians who have small children and just wonder “how?”

My wife made the mistake of telling me the song to which she lost her virginity. There’s no limit to the fun you can have with this info. Having her parents over for dinner? Play the song! Celebrating Mother’s Day? Pregnancy photos set to the tune of the song!

I’ve noticed that the cuter my 1-year-old daughter gets, the more people say she looks like my wife. Not sure how I should feel about this given that when she was a bald headed roly poly she was apparently my twin.

Fun fact: my dog will eat almost anything but will not eat a pretzel if her life depended on it. Makes me seriously question whether I should eat them!

I ended up leaving the Urbanists.Social Mastodon instance. Even though I’m an urban planner by professions and a vocal advocate for transit, complete streets, etc., it’s completely overrun by cyclists.

Not sure where they get their artillery, but Aloha, OR sounds like a war torn country. Happy new year.

Wondering if I’ve got kidney stones or if it’s just gas 😳

Not that I would ever even consider buying a Tesla, but I used to at least think they looked kind of cool, like 5 years ago. But lately I’ve been thinking they just look so dated in their design. KIA’s recent offerings look a lot better to me.