when did you all move to Taos

can't tell me shit about fuck today

unclenching my jaw for the first time since what feels like early march

GOOD AT MY JOB ACTUALLY FUCK YOU IMPOSTER SYNDROME

CTA Fires Unarmed Guards, Taking Early Axe To Pricey Contract With Monterrey Security The cuts come after the CTA signed its largest contract for K-9 services and brought on Cook County Sheriff's Office police as federal authorities have made threats to cut funding if security doesn't ...

HOT DAMN

the Michigan tattoo was a stretch goal!

remember like a decade ago when the week's grand total was a then-all-time-high of $69,069.69

We are in the midst of the first of our semiannual meetings and though I'm fortunate enough to not have to attend in person it's in Eastern Time and there's shit I gotta be online for to take care of remotely

You are not wrong, mind

online workin' before 6:30 a.m.

normal job in a normal economy with very normal expectations for staff without medical or law degrees

🎈

not even vinyl

SHELLAC

listening to that newly discovered Robert Johnson recording again

aside from absolutely everything, what's stunning is how both he and Sister Rosetta Tharpe sound so... contemporary, even 90 years later

blaze it early and blaze it often today, folks

It was already in the glass, not in the jar.

Indestructible until the moment they ain't! I must have dropped these things in the sink countless times as a kid trying to learn how to wash dishes

dropped and shattered a plate into a million billion pieces (corelle i inherited when i moved outta home 20+ years ago)

i am very good at this being a grownup thing lately

good hair day

good night to feel some kind of way while listening to the rain and rolling thunder

the usual friday routine, then

he's your dad now

There's almost zilch I miss about being 23 years old but my first solo apartment way back then had a clear view of the western sky and that shit was killer

If this line of advancing thunderstorms ahead of a cold front turns out to be another dud I am going to be very cross indeed

Yes I know it is only April at least let me enjoy *something* about the impending climate disaster and the inevitable civil war that will be fought over the Great Lakes

a simpler, more innocent time

KONY 2012

[traveling back in time to 2012] is this Psy bothering you

Experienced the CTA equivalent of hitting all green lights on the way both to and from work today (connecting between Red and Brown lines at Belmont as both trains were pulling into the station simultaneously)

Perfect public transit day, no notes, 10/10 A+++++++ would ride again

"Jack Crawford sent a trainee, *to me*?!"

"No. 🫶"

Couple weeks shy of 12 years of this. Reminds me of the time I had a box of a couple hundred No. 2 pencils shoved at me and I was told to sharpen them. Real glad I went to college and paid off my student loans for this!

IT IS CLEARLY AI SLOP YOU FUCKS

At the office downtown on a Friday scanning book pages that I physically cut from the spine to PDF because my workplace's C-suite and boss don't trust my editorial judgment and want to "run it through Claude" to "see for themselves" about whether our intellectual property is being plagiarized 😎