El Vez is a terrific Mexican place in Philly

I've been here! This photo is better than my photos.

S just returned from a half hour walk with both dogs, grabbed a water bottle and retained one of the dogs, and marched back outside muttering darkly about lawn mowing drama in the community. This is going to be good!

"See the sweat creeping up his ballcap." #baseballorerotica

fungal what now

Bandana - OctopusGallery's Ko-fi Shop This is a 100% cotton bandana with various prints on the front. The small size will work for cats and small dogs, and the large should fit most humans...

If for whatever reason you missed my constant auction promo or the paychecks just didn’t hit at the right time, I’ve put my extra bandanas up in the shop. It’s mostly cat-sized versions.

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Also a lot of the unsubscribe functions are designed to be more obtuse now. For most of them you have to type your email address into a window, even when you follow a link that came from the email they sent you, and find the right radio button among several to fully unsubscribe (vs. "fewer emails").

I'd say I get about a dozen emails a day that are variations on this type. They all originate from different sites/domains, so unsubscribing is more or less pointless (although I do it anyway).

Screenshot of an email with the subject line "Do not delete this email. Do not turn off your device." The email is apparently from "ROBERT DE NIRO EVIC."

I know I'm tilting at windmills with this, but when your advocacy emails look literally deranged, I can't see how it's helpful to your cause. This one manages to be surreal, rude, and extremely irritating all at once.

Yeah I'm into it! Just good thing we haven't put the coffee tree out yet I guess.

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Good morning, America! How are ya?
Don't you know me? We're the safety one.
I'm the agency you call the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
I'll post 500 recalls before the day is done.

Frickin' beautiful!

Oddly, the full report suggests this classification values "spirituality," which ... well, no disrespect intended to my spiritual peeps, but, no, really not my jam. It also suggests I could enjoy being a personal trainer or a hairdresser. Nice to know there are other options!

143 extremely repetitive questions later, I am a "practical helper," which sounds about like what I remember being written on my second grade report card.

"Which word appeals to you more?" DECISION. IMPULSE. I'm literally paid to make decisions.

"Do you tend to spend a lot of time by yourself, or with others?" Motherfucker I'm a division chief, I couldn't spend most of my time with myself if I sealed my office off with concrete. My entire career existence is having one conversation after another managing operations at the speed of speech.

"And because it would distress me and others to do Y when I feel obliged to do X, I prefer to do X." I'm sure that's what they're going for. Klieg-light into my soul.

So my boss is compelling us to take a Myers-Briggs assessment ahead of an offsite. Yes I know all that about MB, I don't care, I have to do it anyway. But what's funny is the number of questions that are "do you prefer to do X or Y" and I'm like "I would prefer to do Y but I feel obliged to do X."

I'd pay a onetime fee of $5 just to see the percentage increase in Chat GPT prompts for "write me something inspirational about Jackie Robinson Day that won't scare off middle aged white fans" between 10pm and midnight on April 14th.

Kind of disturbing to see what looks like a hospital system advertising behind home plate at at ballgame with the slogan "We're all here to play." I mean, sure, but we'd probably all appreciate it if you were also on the ball with the work stuff, you know?

I'm wearing a tie with bluebirds on it today! Coincidence??

A screenshot of an email in a Gmail inbox. The email is from "Rocket City Trash P." and the subject line is "NEW SEASON, NEW DRIP!!! - DRIP DRIP DRIP."

Excuse you?

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Most of the coverage of the Hall of Fame inductee announcement I'm seeing concludes with some variation on "...and, also Oasis is here. Anyway," which feels completely right.

Gramercy Park & the Chrysler Building NYC

"Do we get a beer shower for our first sweep on Nationals TV?" "Should get *some kind* of shower." A moment later: "I got a little too excited there..." #baseballorerotica

"A lot of wood on this Milwaukee pitching staff." #baseballorerotica

Back in the day I had a 4am report time and would get up at 3; one morning my alarm didn't go off and I woke up in a panic at 3:30, slammed myself into the car and was literally parking at the office when I realized it was Saturday. The tipoff was that I got the best parking spot in the entire lot!

Every Pink Floyd album is good in some way, yes, even The Final Cut and The Division Bell and whatever that last one was, they're just good in different ways