The Hungry Wolf

If it benefits you, it benefits you. If it benefits me, it benefits *us*.

Poverty hurts less when you’re young and strong.

When I do a pizza workshop, I demo the size and shape, and make an example pie to show topping quantity. Today everyone immediately put on five times as much stuff as I did, and so their pizzas were a soggy mess. Sigh.

Medical services need to remember- payment only occurs *after* services are rendered to the patient’s satisfaction.

Just found out a guy I went to culinary school with is taking the CMC exam this next go-round. I have a hard time even imagining it, given the improvement he'd have needed since the last time I saw him in action.

The day gets a little better when you pass dogs that want pets and rubs while you’re walking to work

“Ask to PM/DM” = “I don’t understand the social contract” If you want to avoid dealing with the world, then *hide*. Intolerably rude to try and have it both ways.

Senior center struggles: Playing scrabble against people with Alzheimer’s

@wintergamingtv.bsky.social got me curious enough about the PatchesSC mod to jump on the SCII ladder for the first time in… fifteen years. For having not played since WoL… I could be a lot worse.

Harvest festival at a nearby park today. Suiting opportunity? Hmm.

“You would charge headfirst into hell, so long as you could complain the entire time.” Rarely have I felt so seen. @tkingfisher.com can distill an ethos with remarkable clarity.

The world would be a far better place if more people knew and stayed in theirs.

I keep missing left turn arrows because multiple people leave entire carlengths of empty space between, and I can't get in the turn lane. This feels like a new and terrible trend. Plus it breaks both main rules for driving: 'Go Fast' and 'Don't Intrude'.

A third of all con hotel rooms should be earmarked for locals and community stalwarts ahead of time so they can be outfitted properly for the incoming additional guests.

Nothing like lunch arriving over an hour late to make a bunch of senior citizens miserable.

“The flaws make the masterpiece” is a line of thinking that requires said flaws to be noticeably different from the remainder.

One of these days the Windows people will remember that operating systems are supposed to be static. If you restart my computer while it’s on, you owe me for the time you’re making me waste putting things back in place.

Fuck those revisionist historians. Poisoned the entire world with their cowardice. Ruined the lives of people who deserved to live while proving they themselves didn’t. Pah.

Twenty five years since I had to map out the end. Everything was done backwards, and every day since has been worse. …I could still fix it.

Not a full day out of surgery and I’m already back at work. Damn near bankrupted with no chance to recover.

New blog post up- Chocolate Mochi Brownies. The best five bites of dessert you probably weren't expecting.

Always worrisome when a supermarket loss leader goes up in price by 15-20%

After discovering that he has *multiple* restaurants, I feel like this throwback post merits more eyes.

*Dinosaur supervisor* Phil Tippett? Hell yeah.

Problem with relying on volunteers is when I have to handle an entire city by myself in an hour and a half.

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

Would it have been too meta to have given the MtG FF set a 0/3 Fish?

I will never fail to be upset when someone completely fails to meet their obligations to their environment- and then *also* fails to either suffer or atone.

Nothing quite like someone losing a master key to an entire apartment complex.

Clearly I need to buckle down and finish writing this book.

Don’t take up space, time, or attention if you can’t justify it. Most dangerous thing part of the modern day is how easy it is for someone to be noisy enough to drown out their betters, and how difficult it is to destroy them for it.

If I bring a +1 to a gathering, who stands surety for their good behaviour? Me. They’ll likely be better than the invited guests- wouldn’t have them along otherwise.

I felt this deep down in my soul

Volunteer: “What was the last movie you went to see?” Me: “By myself? The Two Towers.” V: “Is that a 9/11 documentary?” Me: *visibly dying*

Listening to someone spout nonsense about the oLivE OiL MafIA while extolling the virtues of coconut oil. Lady, the things I could tell you about slave labor in edible oil production would turn your liver inside out.

One of our regulars is prone to taking things. One of his friends brought these back today with a shamefaced apology. *Thirty-two* coffee mugs!

A deep dive I never had time to compile the data for. I’ve warned about a lot of these.

I’m so tired of helping.

I found the proof it shouldn’t exist, I shouldn’t have to be the one to make it stop. Why isn’t evidence ever enough?

I appear to have strained something yesterday and not noticed. Ow.

Tiring when cops are blocking off all the entrances to a housing complex I need to deliver in.

When death comes for those who spent their lives proving they should never have lived at all, there is both relief and regret.

Ugh, it was like a temu artillery barrage. Locals lighting off random crap, car alarms all over the place… so much for a relaxing weekend.

Might as well keep earplugs in this whole long weekend. Bunch of nasty rude buggers setting off fireworks all around.

Stop looking at the ones who want to be seen. Find the ones who deserve to be seen.

When the other healer tries to Rescue you to death, but you block it with the boss's butt and continue the hard carry, RP-walking the whole time. #FFXIV

We're really wasting the concept of a Great American State Fair because a REAL Great American State Fair would have fried foods even God didn't dare to imagine.

Some days the wins are small. Cleared out 3000 emails. Could practically hear my phone gasping in relief when I refreshed.

Rarely do I want things. Really, I want things *done*. Lot of stuff in my life that makes it stressful. Most of it, I should never even have to think about, much less actually deal with myself. Wish more people would understand that, and do their share.