I’m enjoying Maria Semple’s latest but oof, this particular bit of dialogue.

As an archer, I’m sad to hear it’s a discount sport.

Roman Day Off

I’m also 5’ 10” and am eyeing her weight with suspicion. It could be true!

Attempted to surprise myself and I think it’s closer to gullet.

I tried too many times and now I don’t know how I say it.

I also do a mix. Somehow it’s evolved so that my signature begins with a printed S (my legal name is not actually Rex Harrison as Abraham Lincoln) and my writing has a cursive S, which is probably sign of some kind of madness.

A photo of a Seattle street corner being all dramatic

Seattle looking dramatic last night

A notebook with a sketch of some quilt blocks.

So lost in this quilt pattern (and my unwise changes to it) that I had to break out the colored pencils to make sure it still makes sense. And also to check for accidental swastikas, a constant quilting problem.

A profile photo of a person with a spillby/ mullet / hockey haircut / ape drape.

Do you call this haircut a spillby? I swear that was what I knew it as in my youth.

(Photo found on the much-copied part of the Internet, I have no idea who it is or who gave them such a good cut.)

A bright orange quilt

Orange quilt: done! This one put up a fight but in the end I love it.

Yes, the last two coffee shops to open near me are both owned by homophobic churches. Why?!?

Human females?!?

The Beatles, in general.

Yeah, either he actually is a knitter and this shirt is great, or he thinks it’s funny to imagine someone could both be a knitter and be politically involved.

I was lucky that my kid changed his name to the one we would have given him if we’d known he was a boy.

Yes! And the horror when the woman on the other end of the line told me to confiscate the card.

Can confirm.

Yup I’m not accusing anyone of anything — I’m honestly curious, if it was a quote gone wrong or what have you. The second account blocked me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Two accounts with the same post, one posted 15 min after the other.

I’m curious: what would you say happened here?

Two accounts posting the same reply.

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Let’s kill noxious weeds and tax the rich! If you want to tax the rich in Washington state, you should tell your legislators. The Balance Our Tax Code coalition has a handy Take Action page (balanceourtaxcode.com/take-action).

It doesn’t even say that rich people will move! Just that Dems are afraid they might!

It is perfect!

It might seem insincere but I have reminders in my calendar to invite so-and-so to breakfast every month, what’s-her-face to lunch every two months, etc. It’s too easy to let things drift.

There’s a long piece about him in the current issue of The New Yorker, and Ken Jennings made a funny comment about it.

Today my coworker said they needed stitches but they couldn't afford to get them so we set up a lil' station in the staff kitchen and learned how to use hemostatic powder, so, that's how things are going in the US right now.

You didn’t have to share that.

… in the end I am v happy with how things are. I now have functional vision at all distances, can legally drive w/o glasses, can go for a run w/o them. I might be able to dig out the brand name if you’re really curious.