My Twitter feed is private, and I keep it tightly curated, so I'm not really affected by the site's current spiral into becoming even more of a cesspit. I'll keep posting and reading there until it implodes ( Read more... )

I picked up some stir-fry noodles and green onions earlier this week with an eye to trying my hand at peanut noodles. atara made some for dinner a couple of weeks back and they were a big hit. I just wanted to try my own twist on them ( Read more... )

The title of this post is inspired by the song that just came up in my Tidal queue ( Read more... )

This contract work is knocking me on my ass. Oddly, it's when I have the most to write about here that I write the lease. I intend this to be my first in a string of trying to get back into updating this thing regularly ( Read more... )

One of my complaints about travelling down through the US Midwest is that it becomes increasingly difficult to find good coffee the deeper you go. There are speciality coffee shops, of course, but on average, this part of the world seems to thrive on Keurig cups, or microwaved instant coffee. Thus, its usually with tempered expectations that I seek ( Read more... )

One of the steps I had to take in incorporating myself to be a contractor was to create a corporate bank account. Presumably this means that in order to get paid from this gig, I will either need to put myself on the payroll of the corporation - which gets into the messy realm of payroll taxes - or pay myself dividends from the corporation. Either ( Read more... )

I think that sometimes my brain gets tired of its own absurdity ( Read more... )

Another day, another mass shooting in the land of freedom. At a school. Again. (... allegedly. I haven't heard if Alex Jones has weighed in yet to call this one fake too.)My sister-in-law posted last night that my school-aged nephew said, "We'll probably have a lock down drill tomorrow. We usually do after a shooting ( Read more... )

When I posted this elsewhere, I had a family member weigh in to let me know that this product is an abomination, and that it made him question if humanity had any redeeming qualities ( Read more... )

The moon went dark last night like some kind of portent. We almost missed it since it was overcast here all day, but the sky suddenly cleared about thirty minutes before totality.


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