thunk in the night

This apocalypse is going to be so so stupid.

Someday when I have energy again I am going to write the angriest letter about all this to whom it may concern.

These painters I had a panic attack over yesterday are such nice people. I didn't tell them about the tears.

I wrote something about gen-AI, and why we need to fight it now, while our brains can still imagine better... www.tumblr.com/joannechocol...

It's week 4 of kitchen/house reno, a new set of strangers is working below where I'm working, chatting happily. The front door is open again, I'm sure there's a good reason. I hate this with every fiber of my being. Had a panic attack. It's going to be so nice when it's done.

Some days being outside and feeling the air on my skin is just too noisy, which reminds me I'm a bit broken.

It was never a cloud. It was always just someone else's servers.

Yeah, corporations suck.

Me: how much for the goth Uno game? Store Clerk: ma’am, those are tarot cards

brings a glitter gun to a knife fight

A bargain at half the price.

It's been a long loud day but we have new lvp floors in the living room, hallway, and kitchen, and I'm so happy. The old ones really were trying to kill me.

He eats two cookies then brings me two cookies. He knows I only ever take one. In this way he gets three cookies with the emotional baggage of just the two. Genius.

Left the house, looked at art, bought a little of it, ate food truck shawarma, and had a dark and stormy at a speakeasy bookstore. Home before 8. Fuck yeah.

Really nice construction guy again today but he's a whistler. 😬

To do the kitchen reno, we had to replace/add 5 piers under the house, clear out the debris-filled crawl space, add/fix drainage in there, replace 4 joists, replace the large back door, the small back door, and all the subfloor everywhere. Today I wrote all the checks because that's all done. Phew.

It's always the people who send out 5 to 10 reminders about their upcoming webinar who start the thing 10 minutes late...

Literally a lifetime ago, on Earth Day 1985 (or maybe 86), I planted about 20 of those trees by the lake at UB. I have fucked up a lot of things since then, but look at those trees! It was all flat back then and we didn't have a student union. Progress is sometimes trees.

Not so much dearly departed as clearly departed.

Gonzo says it's past your (my) bedtime.

Planning how to organize the new kitchen so watching some YouTube and did you know these freaks call their extra food that doesn't fit in their fully decanted home-based storefront "overstock" ffs. Get off my lawn.

Just had a meal off the old folks menu at ihop and it was so satisfying I'm not even sad about it.

My favourite party trick is not going.

Is there a word for that feeling when you realize you haven't called your mom in way too long and you feel like you desperately need to tell her all about everything and then you remember she's been gone almost 7 years?

🎶 If I had a billion dollars, I'd buy your soul... 🎶

zoom meetings in October

Not working because I just don't feel like it.

A horror movie called bad hair day.

I have hundreds of my original watercolors just sitting around waiting for new homes. Here’s just a few #art #watercolor #painting #illustration

You know those home improvement shows where the budget just keeps blowing up because absolutely everything is wrong and broken and nobody can believe those poor people have been living this way all this time? Just asking...

Another day, another existential crisis.

It's not that I'm shocked by how awful people are, I'm old and I've seen things, it's just that I really figured there'd be a lot more clones running around by now and stuff.

I'm in a meeting where AI hallucinations are being blamed on users not adding proper descriptions and that seems funny but apt. Meanwhile this was happening on my other screen. Please note: I am forced to use this thing to keep my job, I need my job.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

I hate doing this but due to various things, I'm running short on $. My medical insurance has been cancelled, I have a hole in my roof & can't afford the deductible. AND MANY OTHER THINGS. If you can help: www.paypal.biz/txvoodoo Please share.

Strangers are coming to smash our kitchen apart tomorrow and you won't believe what we're paying for that pleasure.

But please let it teach my kids physics and math

I'm just watching the Bills and acting normal I don't know what he's so worried about...