Devastating turn of events for the tournament.
Trying out ground Pike Place coffee recently. More decent than I expected - especially in a pinch.
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🔗 “I love the em dash”
I also love the em dash. It’s been a part of my personal style for decades—I don’t know where I picked up the habit—maybe Joyce? Dickinson? I believe em dashes can stand in for any other mark. I used to know the unicode shortcut to correctly render an em dash, and I also knew the difference between an “en” and an “em.”
🔗 Non-citizens Don’t Vote
I don’t know why people buy the nonsense on this issue. But the true prevalence of non-citizens voting has been looked into by many states. It just doesn’t happen very often at all. Certainly not to the extent “they’re” trying to sell.
Recent Writing
- Lindsay Vonn Should Not Have Skied at the Olympics whitepapers
- The Morning Star reading
- “The New Yorker — Dec. 13, 2024 reading
- It's still the Gulf of Mexico whitepapers
- Zuckerman Bound reading
- The New Yorker Sept 16 2024 reading
- Mason Dixon reading
- My Brilliant Friend reading
Now
This is my Now page. What's a Now page? The quick things one would tell a close friend not seen in awhile.
At home
- Thankful for the help of my parents in law for helping to complete some projects in our front yard.
- Finding a good balance of house work, creative work, restorative work. btw, what is "restorative work?" Reading, writing, piano note reading practice,
At school
- Sorting out the HEBISD Suzuki Strings 25th-anniversary logistics and practice-a-thon system.
- Starting a post with the PTA, to begin next school year.
- Wrapping up Suzuki lessons for the year. Figuring out how to keep practice rolling into the summer.
Computers
Web stuff
- Setting up the "Meh" self-hosted commenting backend. Trying hard, but failing thus far.
- Finalizing the look of my site and its various sections.
Media
Playing
- Grinding job classes post-Earth Crystal in Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster on the Switch.
Listening
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Re-visiting the Radiohead catalog and figuring out each guitarist's role and signature.
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Beatles — Red & Blue albums, 2023 editions
Did you know that the original versions of these records didn't include a single Harrisong?
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Recent Notes
Rangers are a .500 team so far this year. Which ain't bad. Been listening to quite a few of the games on the radio.
Happy Birthday to me. 44 years.
i’m interested in being known and accepted for the widely varying person that I am, not to be known as a family photo, or as this or that person’s antecedent. a person of offbeat interests and depth of curiosity and care.
When playing an RPG (Final Fantasy games), I aspire to move past "I need to do everything perfectly, and have just the right characters and jobs picked out for every situation." And just play the game as it comes - be creative and try different approaches - regardless of whether anyone online says they're the "best" approach.