Well, that's EXACTLY what MY list would be, anyway. Which is probably one of the (many) reasons I probably wouldn't have made it as an astronaut.

American #astronaut Christina Koch's TODO list for the week:

1. Go to Moon.
2. Return to Earth.
3. Change LinkedIn title to "Space Plumber"

#artemis #artemis2

I follow you out of roughly equal parts of respect, humor, and some other feeling that's really hard to label, but it's kind of a psychological venn diagram of morbid curiosity, self-loathing, and spite.

Tonight marks the utterance of the 2,000th #parenting phrase that I NEVER would have expected to emerge for my lips:

"Son, you'll know you're growing up when you realize that if you eat that entire gallon of ice cream in one sitting...you're probably gonna shit something resembling a basketball."

I got so much mileage out of that at work - any time anyone would complain about literally anything, I would immediately reply with "Tell me your unit."

@nameshiv.bsky.social lol

At that moment I realized that as long as there is a nonzero chance of a decent payoff, I actually value agency and impact over everything in this world except family, food, and shelter.

I used to say that I love working at startups because I value agency and impact over financial security. That night was the moment I stopped fooling myself. That expression is a true statement, but doesn't go far enough.

...gave him the most honest answer I could: "I don't regret anything, and I don't want to stop -- but otherwise this is about as close to a literal addiction as anything else I can think of.'

I was at a founder event as a mentor a while back, and one of the folks there (a guy who was about 25) asked me a bunch of questions. I am 55, and had mentioned I was on startup number 8, but no big exits yet. He asked me what made me do it and I stood there for a while thinking about it before I...

While we're on the topic, the math is a little harder on this one, but if that $50 savings on a tiny little difference in MPG sounds good to anyone reading this: LITERALLY JUST GO INFLATE YOUR TIRES TO THE RECOMMENDED AIR PRESSURE RIGHT NOW.

Yup. Taking it one step further, if you assume $5/gallon and 1000 miles between paychecks, on either "upgrade" there you're saving $50/paycheck, which gives a whole new perspective on that 'tiny little' 20MPG to 25MPG delta.

So I'm just going to keep ruminating on that and not say anything until the moment right and I have the perfect words, and at the same time tell the entire Internet how cute (and relatable) I think this is. (Also looking forward to whatever she's planning to bake with all that vanilla).

I am really struggling with how to let her know I find this extremely relatable and exceptionally endearing. Mostly I'm afraid to say anything because I'll either end up on a tangent about my OWN hobbies, or worse -- it might come out sounding like "I told you so"...

My spouse, who likes to pick on me for how obsessed I get with MY hobbies (well, and everything else - work, parenting, etc.) has just prepped an entire growler full of artisanal vanilla extract, and has multiple gallons of kombucha brewing....

The Pleiades over Puget Sound (with clouds on the horizon)

It cleared up later, and I ran down to the water hoping to get a dramatic shot out over the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. Got a potential Aurora alert, too. No dice. Got a fun little photo bomb by The Pleiades, but no Aurora and the moon was hilariously obscured by the ONLY clouds left 😂.

I didn't until now...but now I do, too.

Got a few shots through tiny but dramatic little breaks in the clouds, but I'm not happy with any of them yet - either too much haze from the clouds, or I don't get the exposure right for the dynamic range of the shot, so either the clouds are underexposed or the moon is overexposed.

One of my kids lives in San Bernardino, and we were supposed to have a video call tonight, but apparently there is an intentional power outage, so they cancelled. I'm not sure the outage was related to the weather, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I did not -- too cloudy. Tonight is also cloudy, but much better. It's a few hours before moonset, so we'll see.

Jealous! Both the crescent moon and the potential Aurora are behind clouds here in Edmonds, WA. I'm still holding out some hope that it might peek through near the horizon at moonset, but it's not looking good at rh moment.

On the bright side, hey at least now maybe I can stop having the odd occasional recurring dream in which I accidentally left something critical off of an SF-86 or ENTNAC, and only find out 30 years later when the FBI shows up.

At one point I THOUGHT Bad Blood was maybe written by Darin Morgan as well, but apparently not. Probably my favorite of the episodes NOT written by him.

I go back and forth between Jose Chung's From Outer Space and Humbug (Season 2), but Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose and War of the Coprophages are up there, too. I believe all four were written by Darin Morgan, along with a handful of other good (IMHO) episodes.

Screenshot of weather radar showing a textbook Puget Sound Convergence Zone running East from Edmonds/Lynnwood into the Cascades, with a blue circle representing the poster's location in Lynnwood.

Current radar is doing an amazing job illustrating the point (expand photo for full screenshot). Tonight's is a beautiful PSCZ, and that blue circle is my location.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_S...

As a TexPat, when it comes to violent weather, I have to live vicariously through @spahn711.bsky.social and @wxandpi.bsky.social -- but at least I moved somewhere with a localized weather system so weird it has its own wikipedia page. The "Most common locations" section basically describes my house.

Me sometime in the next two weeks: "Sure, the weather's freaking out everywhere and needs to calm down before somebody gets hurt, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure that cumulonimbus cloud over Lynnwood saw God."

Sometimes I describe the Puget Sound Convergence Zone as "much like the surrounding weather, but mildly drunk" -- but apparently March is "like the PSCZ brought a bag of shrooms to the party"

Singular *human, but whatever. Even though it's grammatically incorrect, plural "humans" there is a good reminder I'm probably somewhere in the top five.