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@jerzone
<launch photoshop>
<go get coffee>

i am “excited about new rechargeable batteries arriving” years old.

one of my favorite photos i’ve taken.

it’s been a long week.

@jimmynotjim @irafcummings not wrong though

@joshmillard i tried this on my phone and i was cackling like a fool. thank you. :) then i closed the browser tab. then i switched back to mastodon and it was still playing? so i force-quit the browser. i force-quit mastodon client. i swiped away every app i’ve launched ever. it was still playing.

at this point, i’m laughing so hard i’m crying. my son is asking me what’s wrong. so i just turn up my phone volume and set it down and gesture to it.

thank you again. :D

@m750 is really wonder what the cost difference is between just feeding everyone vs paying a 3rd party to administer the lunch program

i wouldn’t want to to be NetOps for Epic Games right now. sending hugs.

@revmem i’m so sorry. in the end, all we can give them is relief.

hey everybody it’s December, and you know what that means:

31 days of not making yourself feel bad if you don’t accomplish some specific task on every day of this month.

(their other problems aside) my spotify wrapped 2023 surprised and moved me. i won’t say a lot more about it for fear of spoiling yours for you, but it’s been a long long time since i was so surprised & delighted.

@threetonesun you don’t know how difficult it is to upload and replace assets in Adobe Experience Manager. every time i see that, i shed a tear for the poor developer who graduated from college thinking they would change the world and now they have to argue with a nonsense piece of garbage software to just make it behave slightly like something normal.

@jayroh :) love you joel but this is what my truck looks like unless i put it back together

it’s me.

hi.

i’m the problem - it’s me.

i always joke that my weekends are so busy that i “need another weekend to recover” well. i worked my butt off for the last two days. and now i have two more days off!

so i could take it easy and relax and recover.

lol no. i have two more full days of projects and chores lined up.

happy thanksgiving to my friends in the US. remember, wash dishes as you go along. you’re going to need those measuring spoons again. and if you see someone else washing dishes, pick up a towel and dry.

don’t ask. just pick up a towel and dry.

@irafcummings is this🦋agency❓

how did November get to be the month of terrible expectations? “grow a mustache!” “write a novel!” “stop masturbating!” then at the end you have to travel and deal with your loud, crappy relatives.

@m750 thanks! i’ve been trying to be more open about my depression and anxiety, and seeking treatment and how that’s going. i hope it helps others to seek treatments or solutions.

the toughest part for me is looking back on situations in the past where i was struggling and just thinking… if i had the tools and perspective that i posess today, how much better that might have went.

Sorry there is no great revelation or ‘this one simple tip’ but the lesson i’m trying to convey is - stop, do a sitrep (situation report), identify how you are feeling, consider why, make a change to adjust the climate if needed.

for a long time i wouldn’t take a step back, i would just try to ‘power through’ situations like these, be less effectual than i wanted, and later judge myself for lack of progress.

an anecdote about anxiety and dealing with the world.

yesterday i had a contractor coming over to give us a consultation/estimate. as typical in this situation, i am completely on edge.

the person was nice, the news was as expected, it all went pretty well. after they left i found myself utterly unable to concentrate.

i realized - i still had the adrenaline but now i didn’t have the fear. i was just buzzing.

i needed to reset. for me, that was sit on the couch with the dogs for a while.

@jeffbyrnes @marcamos i thought this was a family-friendly mastodon

i feel obliged to post in recognition of our first accumulating snowfall.

what kind of exercises can i do to keep from hurting myself when i roll over in bed?

this project was a shelf for the window behind our kitchen sink. i think it turned out well. just a 1x4 and a 1x2, biscuit-jointed together, primed and painted. held in place by two pieces of aluminum angle that are set in flush to the ends of the shelf.

@hbuchel

@sarajw also super fun - Above & Beyond did a warm-up set before one of their shows from a boat… this would have been fun to see : ) https://youtu.be/IrzO9GqS8BY

@sarajw a canal boat! we’ve watched a show on amazon prime called ‘cruising the cut’ about someone building one up

@hotdogsladies i would take my
wife to races to support her* and watch the kids while she ran.

* the kids and i would find the nearest bagel shop

happy saturday y’all.

Breaking News: dip Funyuns in chili

“if you could go back in time and tell your younger self one thing what would it be?”

Dr Dre works for Apple and Snoop Dogg is friends with Martha Stewart

the first pot of coffee was gone before 8am. it’s been a week, folks.

@sarajw i feel like i just updated to v2.

final trick-or-treater tally: 4 doorbells, 3 carloads that went around the cul-de-sac and skipped our house. i guess our hill isn’t worth a handful of candy.

also, a metalworking project today. made an aluminum frame to mount our soundbar above the tv.

another small woodworking project, another opportunity to use too many clamps.

@hbuchel
“i cut our website load time by two-thirds.”
“wow, that’s amazing! how did you do it?”
“i removed the two extra copies of jquery we were loading.”

it’s been a tough week. for dogs. apparently.

@marcamos surely a portmanteau should be created here

random revelation: we do hobbies because it’s satisfying to feel competent at something.

anything.

@threetonesun (looks around nervously at other shoppers) “oops, sorry… i wasn’t on mute”

@threetonesun but Joe think of the serendipitous conversations and the hallway interactions. Being able to read someone’s body language. If these exchanges don’t take place face-to-face, I don’t know how the young shoppers will learn.

@hbuchel i hope i removed “are you happy now zod???” before i pushed

@stephaniewalter what about a triathlon? several distinct phases, each one requires a distinct aptitude, but overall performance will depend on success in all

@marcamos imagine how frustrated they were “why is it so hard to get to my insurance company??? and why didn’t i learn to read?!!!”

@Meyerweb i track mine in the Medications section of the Health app. it’s like gamification for seniors!

@mescutia thanks mike!

i spent this weekend bending clear acrylic tubing for my first custom-loop water cooled PC. i think it turned out pretty well.

anyway. hi. it’s mike. i’m 50.