Ultimately, we’ve started to group locations/places we’re interested in for a given area. And while some of the major things are locked in (tours or dinner reservations), we’ve got enough items to keep things flexible.
And hopefully, we can be as busy (or lazy) as we want.
Liz and I have a big trip coming up. We’ve been planning a lot, long before now. But with our departure date fast approaching, things are starting to get real.
“Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin
on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being
postmodern now, I pretended as if I did not see
them, nor understand what I knew to be circling”
“How did I end up going on a bender?
I hate attention, but I’m right in the center of the room
And it’s spinning so I’m holding on to you<"
Many said the trouble had started when their loved ones engaged a chatbot in discussions about mysticism, conspiracy theories or other fringe topics; because systems like ChatGPT are designed to encourage and riff on what users say, they seem to have gotten sucked into dizzying rabbit holes in which the AI acts as an always-on cheerleader and brainstorming partner for increasingly bizarre delusions.
We’ve got a light in the dining room (on the first floor) that we want to relocate slightly. In order to do this, we opted to gain access from the second floor, going down through the main bedroom floor.
Exciting day today – we have our electrician in, and he’s putting in the main light in our office space.
While hanging out with folks in the suburbs, Fritz brought along a gift of some greens for our bunny rabbits. As a “Thank You” for both his generosity and farming acumen, I created a little video showing Hugo and Hazel enjoying the fruits veggies of his labor. Related: The Inattentive Gardener
Put a bit of time outside today, finishing up the pickets to our fence. We had a small opening left (which I had used to move over to the neighbor’s side of the yard).
I took out a few pickets I installed by mistake on their side (to cover up the metal post). Replaced them with 1×4 boards, and used the pickets to finish up the remaining open areas on our side of the fence.
“My cousin told me you smashed
I found his nudes in your Snap
You hit me with your Subaru
What the fuck is wrong with you?”
Liz and I trekked out to the suburbs tonight, for an early dinner and gathering and Michelle and Mike’s place. It’s been a while since we last gathered (January, I think it was). And tonight we resumed our “reading” of 2024 Costco Whisky Collection.
That said, I think at the rate we’re going… we’ll be lucky to meet one more time before the 2025 edition comes out.
While we were out at our nearby liquor store, I spotted an assortment of drinking game… games? I guess it makes sense, given that we live on the outskirts of a college campus. But that college campus is the University of Chicago. And I’m still hard pressed to figure out who the target audience for these games might be.
I recently re-watched the first two seasons of Strange New Worlds, in preparation to watch Season 3. And now that I’m mostly caught up, I decided to go back and give Star Trek: Discovery another chance.
I recall liking the show at the start, but things kind of went off the rails further into the series… and enough so that it made it problematic for me to continue watching.
Going over some old photos on my phone, I found this one – which apparently captured an instant where a security car’s green light happened to illuminate the block.
Makes sense – the last two days working have involved pretty much non-stop heat. First in the back office area (which has AC, but I sealed off the room as I was working with insulation). And then a full day outside, in pretty humid and hot conditions.