Things are getting weird with the contractor. Someone else is responding on his cell and it’s a lot of why it’s not their problem but they’ll fix it for more money.

I firmly believe dialogue should be allowed to break grammatical rules because people don't always speak with perfect grammar. Run-on sentences especially are a device I like to use. To me, they imply dialogue spoken without the natural breath/stop of a period, even if it's grammatically correct.

don’t be mad east bay. it’s actually kinda a perfect summer day in sf.

Managed to get completely dry before noticing I did not rinse my hair. And now there is a cat in my lap during round two of air drying. Luckily I did a lot of work before I went swimming.

So my contractor has completely ghosted me on the last final items. Technically I didn’t pay him his final milestone payment. But I did pay the cabinet milestone and I’m missing two finishing pieces to make them flush. So now I have to fill out the whole complaint form to show him I’m serious.

In retrospect, I should have thought through getting my pneumonia vaccine in the middle of a short, busy, hot week. On the other hand, one of the elders was hospitalized today with pneumonia because a lot of people don’t get vaccinated. 😢I try to hold two truths at the same time.

I deal with relatively small numbers. Which means needing to research whether the 0.025% difference is a rounding error or an error error. I’m proud to report that of the 120 potential errors, we only had 10. Which is still bad in my world. But not catastrophically so.

Welp I couldn’t keep down the Lamotragine. Really hope that is the end of my stomach’s shenanigans. It was bad last year and I don’t want stomach Botox to be part of my yearly routine.

“This is absolutely over the top and ridiculous” “I bet @mostlymartha.bsky.social would love it if it came in her colors” Both can be true without being an insult.

New Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · 14h ago

Still in her ornamental winter plumage, the female leaves her cubs to forage—not knowing she only has one bar.

I woke up from a nightmare and now I’m being subjected to emergency kisses. The emergency being an empty food dish and not me being full of adrenaline and dread.

You cannot convince me Joel Edgerton and Patrick Brammel are different people.

I have a commitment problem. I should be walking away from Mayday. But instead we’re bracing ourselves for the end.

I think you should get to open the Emergency Windows once. I always think I’ll need to know when the next quake happens when I’m on the bridge and suddenly taking water. I’m always so optimistic I could somehow find a way to survive that. I’m not even that good a swimmer.

BART is definitely faster from West Oakland to Embarcadero. But I think I’m making it up with ease of transfer. And that initial stop was the same wait either way.

Does my manic episode count? I planned a trip to Tokyo (2 wk) and rural France (1 wk) in a 6 week period. I also crashed hard and did fuck all to take advantage of what should be life changing vacations.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d ago

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

The bus driver commiserated with how miserable missing this particular route is, which has done a lot to bring my nervous system down to a manageable level.

Stupid shuttle broke down, and the email notification came 25 minutes after it was supposed to be at my stop, which is 20 minutes from the first route stop. There was plenty of time to get to us earlier.

Even the crickets were embarrassed.

Another way to commemorate 9/11 would be to not do any of this

I forgot that double dash means they’re going to Safeway after they picked up my fries. Now I might have to use my oven to make tater tots.

Women entering politics as a threat to compulsory heterosexuality.

I’ve been really good at cooking at home. But I think I’m going back to takeout this week. I am dying. I don’t even want to put pants back on to answer the door. And if they make me go outside to wrangle them to the right apartment, I will murder someone. It really isn’t impossible to find.

Today I am learning I am not the Star Trek fan I thought I was. Not to yuck anyone’s yum. Genuinely happy you get this much joy from a thing.

Skipping swimming because we have a report that goes out by four, and the dude with the information is certain someone else can do it. It’s gotten back to him 3 times already.

WNBA critics: The WNBA is a hotbed of lesbianism WNBA fans: The WNBA is a hotbed of lesbianism

MOTHERFUCKING CURTAINS TIME. And they should finish early enough I can go swimming and see my therapist in person.

Not mine, but again happy Labor Day, y'all.

I wish I had the time to recover from the COVID vaccine on company time. I am taking tiny sips of water to settle my stomach because I let myself get dehydrated napping too much. And I desperately want to go back to napping.

Buddy is being such a dear today I could clip his long nails. We will not get more than two or three at a time, so now there are only one or two that need to be clipped at any time. We don’t discuss the back nails that are a nightmare every six months.

I’m already having imaginary fights that my budget is reasonable. “Just ask members to bring a bottle of wine or make cupcakes” I’m also judgey that you can have cubed cheese at an activity event, but real charcuterie for a happy hour.