Hi, friends!
How did your day go? Anything good happen this weekend?
January tends to be a shitty month with weather, holidays being over, etc, so friendly reminder that we’re half way through this shitty month.
If you’re in the US, I’d like to let you know about 2 important holidays this week in addition to MLK jr day tomorrow —
Jan 17th – National Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
Jan 20th – Penguin Awareness Day. Not to be confused with World Penguin Day, that one is Apr 25.
(Ahem)
Jan 31st — MemeWeaver’s birthday.
H….. A……… P………..
(Puts kettle on. If I do this slowly enough, I can stretch this out for 15 more days.)
He’s giving you lots of shopping days to really put thought into his present.
Happy early birthday!
Where’s the party?
My birthday is between today and your birthday, but I chose not to include it as a national holiday worth noting.
Because it should be a WORLD CELEBRATION EVENT instead.
We finally said fuckit today & went biking in the fog. Problem is it was also 45 degrees & I didn’t wear gloves so my hands went completely numb. That cut ride short. Wife finally forced the issue & made me purge all my old software disks & find some old pics. She cleaned my office closet so I could get my camera gear out of her closet. Then we went to TJ Max for placemats. Fucking placemats? Don’t we already have too many of those? At least I got some good Chinese food out of the trip. Hot & sour soup will cure the cold.
I am 37 and there are some things about “normal eating” that still kinda stress me out. Growing up, my mom set up her workstation where we’d have had a kitchen table and it was a small condo so there was no where else to have a table. As a result, every single meal at home was on my lap watching TV, typically the Simpsons as it was on at 6:30 after Wheel of Fortune.
So eating a meal at a friend’s house with a table always stressed me out because I was like *what if I mess this up or spill food all over the table and they realize I don’t know how to do this.* Anyways, part and parcel of that is placemats bother me because I’m always worried I’ll spill food on them and then they’ll have to spot-cleaned because gasp what if they’re fancy and can’t go in the washing machine???? As you can deduce, cloth tablecloths also make me worry when eating.
For me the most aggravating eating experience is receptions where you’re trying to manage a drink of something that can stain in a little cup and a tiny plate with something too messy to eat by hand but no utensils, maybe a skewer, the plate is too flimsy to stand up to the sauce, and then there is no obvious place to stash your cup and plate, you’ve forgotten a napkin, it’s too crowded to navigate to a more convenient spot….
Right? Then it’s like welp guess I’ll balance my plate on the rim of my glass and hope this fragile pile of messy things doesn’t collapse and spill everywhere.
This is late but I’m on a very erratic sleep schedule. So now I’m up and I just read this, which I thought was funny:
Precipitation will likely begin in the early evening on Sunday, and less than an inch of snow is expected in the NYC area, where Hochul said we’ll mostly see “a rain event [with] minor to moderate coastal flooding [in areas] where people are used to flooding.”
This is a mundane weather report but it was delivered by the Governor of New York State who, unbeknownst to me, has an interest in meteorology and comfortably throws around terms like “rain event” and “moderate coastal flooding.” Whatever happened to “We think this storm is going to be pretty bad so don’t go out unless you have to”?
The motto of today where I am is: Dig motherfucker, dig.
7cm of snow (or around 3 inches for you Imperial folks) all over the driveway. Easy to move snow which is okay. Our mayor (former Ontario Tory leader with rapey issues and considering a run at the Fed job) basically cut plowing services so the roads aren’t plowed/salted and sanded DURING snowfall, but rather after which really doesn’t fucking help anyone. At least he’s no longer texting via his scummy campaign through illegally obtained phone numbers about his non carbon tax (he surrendered to the inevitable last year) or anything else.
Not looking forward to slow painful crawl to work with a bunch of idiots who are either too oblivious to notice the shitty roads or too scared shitless to move.