We've all been there, friend. Call it a bonus ride with a new friend. Dust off your timing light and your carb synchrometer and get ready door summer.

I had to do some calculating, but I think we started subscribing to #netflix in 2003/04, when it was a DVD-by-mail service. There was actual joy in receiving disks & we planned meals around watching them. 22 years. Good run.

All that's gone now. I just put a merciful bullet 🔫 to my account.

I spent the morning migrating and deleting repos on #Github. I don't want my work used to train CoPilot models and I don't trust that they will abide by my opt-out choice.

I'm choosing #Codeberg for public/OS code and #Gitea on my homelab server for private code.

We have not one, but two, TV weather helicopters circling our small town (N569T, N9TV). Shit is about to get real.

#okwx

Kurt Cobain was the Jimi Hendrix of my generation and he's been gone for 32 years. Seems like yesterday we were bouncing to Smells Like Teen Spirit.

I decided a better choice was watching The Aristocrats documentary.

People hate Duke BB for the same reason they hated the Yankees during until recently. The assumption they would always win and obnoxious fan bases that used the team success as a reflection of their own (lack of) success.

See also the Dallas Cowboys, post 1995.

Watching the #CIN #PIT game and thinking I'd be more entertained watching Major League with Ricky Vaughn and Willie Mays Hayes.

I think about how Marshal Pétain was treated in his post-Vichy period and I wish nothing less for Speaker Johnson when this house of cards finally collapses.

Bryce Harper is the Dan Marino of Patrick Ewings. All the appearance of intensity with none of the execution. Who better to have in a must-have situation than someone that rarely does. #wbc

If Messrs Rogers and Hammerstein were alive today, our state song lyrics would go like this ...

Sit out back and wait
To see a T-38
Making lazy circles in the sky

#oklahoma #vanceafb

Okies have a chance to do something really hilarious in the special election. But won't.

Someone will put a rumor on fakebook that Soros is buying the election for Talarico and our dumb asses will double down on the worst GOP candidate.

Oh look, Ryan Walters.

Go Pokes!

Spent many a freezing February and March afternoon at Allie P., watching a couple knuckle heads named Pete and Robin knock the horsehide. Was partially responsible for the infamous Bedlam Brawl in 1989.

You will always have Sidney's Golden Goal in 2010, which was an incredible win for Team Canada and a heartbreaking loss for Team USA. Yet, it is the stuff of legend.

Someday, we'll get back to celebrating our wins and losses without feeling like it's an international incident.

The cat, a seal point Siamese, is the guide. When it speaks, it does so in iambic pentameter due to a curse. Every stanza it utters contains 1 truth and one falsehood that leads to mayhem. They never go hungry because the truths involve food.

... To be continued. If I can't sleep.

What would The Incredible Journey be if @guygavrielkay.bsky.social wrote the book in 2026?

I feel like I'm starting a D&D campaign and creating character sheets...

I'm sitting in the "recliner" in an ICU room for the night, listening to the beeps and dings of medical devices, ignored by the staff.

It's dark, my wife sleeps in a fitful, but opiated haze. Neither Clonazepam nor Crown Royal will let me sleep.

My mind wanders...

I really wish this game would be over so I could go back to my #Python project.

Also, #fuckice

Road Trip - The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field A Saturday morning drive to a nearby museum that did not disappoint.

Road Trip!

A Saturday morning drive to a nearby museum that did not disappoint.

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It's a thought. ESC gets pretty good use as I use vi (not vim). I could replace ScrLk as I don't use it much these days after taking the KVM switch out of my desk setup.

(Using Remote Desktop Manager these days)

Spending time this week playing with projects in Rust. I appreciate the familiarity of the tools to my roots (C++, Java). A growing ecosystem of libraries to do useful stuff.

Definitely appreciate how its package system doesn't download gigabytes just to do something simple (unlike, ahem... node).

First world problem:

The Q key is going out in my mechanical keyboard. I have spare switches, but they are Cherry MX Reds and not Browns. Having 1 key that's less clicky will drive me slowly insane.

We are going for a ride on Saturday. Not far. An hour, at most, in each direction. But, it's February, and February North of the Tropics is not normally "roadster weather".

These are not normal times. We'll have a jacket and perhaps a wool blanket for a passenger. Also, seat heaters. And a flask.

Have you tried kittens? I find that kittens help.

Long drives in a convertible with CCR blasting out the speakers also works wonders. Helps if the convertible makes it back home.

Failing that, reciting the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra a few hundred times allows you to forget what was troubling you.

Kinda like how Dianetics and Battlefield Earth were NYT bestsellers back in the day.

Scientology sure must be popular if all those people are reading those books...

🙄

Got over freezing for the first time in 12 days but the wind was sharp. Supposed to be 70 on Saturday and the local LBC bunch have a drive planned. Great chance to try out my new seat heaters.

My pickup will get washed this week, but we don't have the salt issue that y'all do.

Can we get Donny a preview copy of Civ 8 and let him wreck the Dev environment instead of Production?

I have the next volume at hand. Ready for the following winter storm.

I'm not sure how it ends, but I do like this Simon de Montfort fellow. He is getting things done.

Slogging through a book written when my parents were teens. The subject (Henry III) is as interesting as toe fungus. The words bringing Rex Anglais to life do so using a style seemingly lost among the detritus of the statistical models driving modern prose.

I love it and I can't say exactly why.

May it follow him into the afterlife, where he can complain about the unfairness of it all to Robert Bork and Thomas Bowdler.