I seriously want to be friends with every single person the “next semester” video. That whole crowd looks like awesome people. #twentyonepilots

The music video for “Last Semester” almost made me cry, and I’m not sure why. But this is why I love twenty one pilots I guess. #twentyonepilots

Listening to Taylor Swift's Folklore on a snowy/rainy day and it's an almost perfect soundtrack for this kind of day.

Working on my new-old project Story Trees again. Getting excited.

I've started playing and the Patreon for said game is AMAZING. $3/month and there are 30 content packs available, many of which would cost you $10-$30 if this were a system like D&D.

I feel like energy drinks should have a label saying You have ten minutes to find a bathroom. by law.

Actually used the Pythagorean Theorem in the real world yesterday. I needed to 3D-print some little wedges to angle some lights I was putting up. Tried to explain how cool this was to the kids, they were unimpressed. 🤷🏼

I just configured my Raspberry Pi Plexamp player to ALSO be an Airplay receiver. And...it just worked. This is the kind of thing that I find very fun. Pointless, but fun.

Getting my eyes checked today. Eye exams aren't invasive at all, but they always stress me out a little bit. I don't like having my eyes played with.

I put cool color changing LEDs up to light up my record player. It just feels right to have them almost always set to "sleazy 70's orange".

I just watched someone pull off a textbook parallel parking job. I want to be like that when I grow up.

Currently reading Edith Hamilton's "Mythology: Tales of Gods and Heroes" and it's fun! Mrs. Hamilton has opinions and isn't afraid to share them.

I just finished reading all of Stephen Fry's "Mythos" books on ancient Greek mythology. And based on that very cursory knowledge, I feel safe in stating that the ancient Greeks would have LOVED ComiCon.

I'm not a huge Star Trek fan. I like Star Trek, but I'm not a "Trekkie".

That said, I think the Enterprise in Next Generation is the most beautiful spaceship ever.

Really getting into RiffTrax again. Something about late fall makes me want to snuggle up in a blanket and a bad movie.

Working from the actual office today, brought all my peripheral equipment… but not my actual laptop.

My family is one of those families that starts Christmas music right after Halloween. We keep it inside the house so as not to offend others, but...

I really love it!

Today I learned that you can buy NFC cards/stickers/buttons for cheap, and that my iPhone can write to them.

This is going to be fun.

Falling sleep while watching a movie either leads to: 1.) Sleeping soundly until 8AM 2.) Waking up right when the movie ends and not greeting any sleep until 8 AM.

There are apparently no other options.

Thinking about Halloween. It's not my favorite holiday, but it's fun with kids.

I love autumn.

The new Endless Dungeon is pretty good!

My wife and I just bought a huge van for hauling people and stuff. We have kept to our pattern of only paying cash for vehicles, and we bought it for roughly a dollar a pound. 😆

My wife and I have been married for 22 years today. Next year I will have been married for half my life, and I'm excited about that!

I know autumn doesn't officially start for another few days in the northern hemisphere, but it's already in the air, and the light has already taken on that golden hue.

When I bought a Lifetime Plex Pass I thought "if I use this for three years it will have paid for itself."

Well, it's been ten years...

Work time! There are parts of this job that I really enjoy, and today has a lot of those parts in it.

Just started playing Sea of Stars, it's a beautiful game! Seems fun so far.

Moving all in to social.lol Mastodon instead of my old Mastodon server, which I'm shutting down.

Finally got my Play Date from Panic, it's an interesting device, bascially what a GameBoy would be in the 21st Century. Or perhaps it's a "19A0's" Game Boy. Not sure. But it's cute and fun.

Reading "The Shepherd's Crown", the last #Discworld book...and trying not to ugly cry TOO much.

Bandcamp Friday! Get some music!

Anything is possible...

Given unlimited time or money.

Bought "Dark Side of the Moon" on vinyl because...that's how that album was meant to be played or whatever?

Got an invite to bluesky social and it took me a while to remember what that is. I don't think I'll actually sign up.

Time to decide if I like Wilco as a band, or if I only like the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

No I don't know why today is the day.

That feeling where someone brings up one of your obsessions and you have to pretend you only know and care a normal amount about that topic, so you don't scare them off.

I’m writing an Interactive Fiction story using #Inform7 again. I haven’t implemented any people yet so at present it’s kind of a “Gone Home” experience but not as good. But I’m enjoying writing it.

I just ordered two new inexpensive fountain pens. I'm really not trying to be a collector. I just have no impulse control.

I really don't want to install Java on my kids' new computer just for Minecraft. Java is such a nightmare.

Reading Marcus Aurelius again for comfort. Yes stoicism is comforting, if done right.

This week was definitely one of those fast/slow weeks. Each hour was slow but it's Friday already.

Listening to "Year of Hibernation" by Youth Lagoon. The record is nicely timeless, but also very well suited to summer mornings.

Trying to focus and clarify my thoughts, but they keep running around like errant children.

A vendor we work with from the UK just asked if Monday was a US Bank Holiday. We don't use that terminology, but I wish we did!

I want to play Tears of the Kingdom all day every day. I also want to do every other thing. I can’t keep my brain in control.

headache

Working on The Apprentices and determined to get it done enough and to publish the dang thing. It's my "Work in progress" link on my profile.

This just in Terraria is still awesome.

Being able to buy music direct from Japan: awesome. The fact that shipping is almost as much as the cost of the item: less awesome.

playing around with a vinyl cutter, I even put words on the wall. 🤦🏼

Just went to a meeting that was scheduled for 90 minutes, but only went 11 minutes... Could have been an email.

Budgeting for work. Should probably do the same for home...

My kids and I built a new computer today. I've built plenty of machines, but it always feels like a miracle when it actually works.

I really want to do something creative right now, but everything feels like too much work. So I feel bad instead.

Really wish I could listen to music during meetings.

I really like Entity Relationship Diagrams. Yes I know I'm a nerd.

Ran into a bunch of old co workers today, fairly randomly.

I know I'm revealing my age here, but depositing checks via an app still feels magical.

The snow has returned.

Really enjoyed the Hawkeye TV show. I kinda...watched the entire thing last night.

Today I think is a good day to work on my department's budget.

Be..because I have to. It's literally a job requirement. I don't want to.

Went to the zoo.

Spring is coming!

akesi seli = dragon. toki pona is fun!

My kids have decided to try and learn toki pona with me!

Back to work!

Welp. I can no longer say that I have never been airsick.

Getting on a plane…in three hours. Already at the airport.

Thinking about how to update my personal brand website.

Did not go to happy hour for the conference tonight. Partially because I don't drink, partially because I'm exhausted.

Went out to eat with strangers. Trying to be social at this conference. Had a good time. Now I need some quiet me time in my tiny hotel room.

Connected to my ISP’s Wi-Fi at the airport, got my VPN set up. I wonder if I can stream video over this connection…

Thinking about learning Toki Pona just for fun.

In an effort to be conversant with my pop culture loving friends and family I just binged a lot of MCU shows and movies. This must be what the “Supersize Me” guy felt like.

Preparing to travel. I don’t love travel but I do like it.

Just about done. Running out of energy.

Dungeons and Dragons time!

Going to Washington DC next week for work stuff. Hoping to see some cherry blossoms, but who can say?

Academia is a fun mess. I've been working in it for decades and I'm still surprised at how much people can talk about nothing.

Officially tired of snow.

I set up a Docker Minecraft server for my kids and now they think I am a genius. Nobody tell them I just followed the README file on the Docker image.

I like online jigsaw puzzles, but if they want to be more realistic you need to be able to lose pieces under the sofa.

I have to constantly remind myself that new dice don't actually solve anything. They're just pretty.

Oh, also the snow is two feet deep outside.

Listening to Poolsuite. Sometimes I need summery music when the snow is two feet deep outside.

Geeking out on this little Linux box, playing with LVM and stuff.

Considering setting up my latest Linux box to use instead of regular Vim, just to see how I like it.

I’m setting up an old computer as a Linux tinkering server. It’s fun!

Music is my love language. Well, one of them.

I can’t help it, I like Christmas shopping.

Wow, someone remade my favorite version of Lode Runner!

I'm honestly more than a little excited.

I really like this: .

I don't really need another blog...but I will definitely use it.

'Tis the season to obsess about when packages will arrive.

I finished again this year. For what it's worth.

Today I think is a good day for some They Might Be Giants.

Wait, every day. Every day is a good day for some They Might Be Giants.

Posting about a possible instead of writing it... I might not be ready for today.

Browsing . This is a very good summation of what the last week has felt like. I left Twitter a few years ago, I know this wave will settle and people will settle in, but it's a bit much at the moment.

Ten years ago I determined that I would save money on Pass if I bought a lifetime subscription, only if I used it for at least three more years.

So I guess that paid off? Plexamp is my favorite music player ever.

Time was, my feed was just a couple of bots and couple of people. Now it's like... busy and stuff.

My has gotten very interesting with the influx of Twitter users. I'm mostly connected to art and writing instances, so overall it's been very positive.

As much as I' d like to claim that I wrote 85K words in one day, my current tally is the result of a wildly optimistic automated system, not a reflection of reality.

I know I am the first manager ever to have this thought, but if I didn't have to spend so much time taking care of the problems on my team I could spend more time making my team better. Someone should look into this.

I don't know why, but I really want some like, light green fountain pen ink. Don't even know where or when I would ever use it.

Secretly, my favorite thing about Halloween is the morning after, when we can put all the "spooky" stuff behind us and get on to enjoying the cozy fall stuff instead.

Using a mobile browser because I’m bored.

Trying out mind-mapping software as a virtual whiteboard for a training meeting. I wonder if this will work...

Of course the bad part about a new RimWorld expansion is figuring out which mods still work. .

NEW EXPANSION

Considering doing again this year. I know I said last year was my last year, but I might be reconsidering...

Loving the autumn weather!

Going through my library and adding "Mood" tags. Like a normal person. Everyone does this, right? Please?

Firefox!?! Again?

Might be time to switch back to Firefox. Again. Vivaldi is getting laggy and has to be restarted multiple times a day.

Moved from an older registrar to Namecheap, and got it pointing at my omg.lol profile again.

Playing . Oh hey, they updated my old favorite Idle RPG! It's got an expansion now! Time to passively level up my mining ability!

Watching

This is my favorite depiction of a first draft of a novel. I love that the "novel" sucks, but the author's friends give him credit for at least getting it done.

Reformatting a flash drive that has gone through the wash in a pocket. It seems to be fine?

Listening to Hotel Yankee Foxtrot again. I dig it

This is by far the prettiest of these status-type things I've seen.

Browsing . Meta post!

They don't have an emoji for "low carb protien bar" so I used an ice cube. Or a gelatinous cube.