Knippy @knippy@mastodon.social

Does anyone have any potassium sorbate or mixed tocopherols I could borrow?

The Uppity Grammar Awards are a real "Who's Whom" of the snobby literary elite.

Too many bananas? DON'T MIND IF I DO

Rewatching Home Movies.

Melissa: Jason, stop picking your nose!
Jason: Melissa, I'm not *picking* it, I'm *pulling things out of it*.

Reversing the trend of auctioning cultural artifacts, when that culture still exists and objects:

http://www.startribune.com/sacred-dakota-peace-pipe-sells-for-40-000-and-buyer-gives-it-back-to-minnesota-tribe/482107511/

Also reptiles actively hate everyone and the only thing they want is to eat and bask and mate

Birds as pets are kind of terrifying. They don't really want anything to do with people. But they attach to people too. So then they get all jerky and mean and aggressive. LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN MY LIFE

Maybe it's time to rewatch Home Movies again.. got a Coach McGuirk deficiency.

When your skills are good, trust in them. As they grow, you will see the next-level problems in your work; it can feel like you're actually getting worse.

But this is a sign of your growing skills, not your deficiencies; when you began, these "new" problems were either dwarfed and hidden by larger issues, or invisible to your unformed senses.

When you find new, deeper problems, reward yourself for having gotten good enough to see them. You will learn again and find more, so make it joyful.

Capstan, dried properly, is quite a good pipe tobacco! I had never tried it, always thought it would be boring and flavored heavily, but it is a straight matured virginia with a complex profile.

Nearly time to start migrating my gmail accounts out I think. I have to keep one for Android still, so that might complicate things.

Once you get the hang of eating brown rice with chopsticks, you feel as though all accomplishments are within reach!!

Other things:
1. I no longer read tech news sites. These just get me started down toy aquisition lane
2. I do not visit stores on my lunch break. I used to do this just to walk around but I inevitably buy something

To prevent myself from frivolously spending money I have:

1. Identified my two most common money suckers: ADHD-driven "ooh shiny" and food while at work
2. To combat ADHD, I uninstalled the Amazon app on my phone
3. To combat the food, I started bringing my lunch and snacks
4. Quantified the savings. $5 food every workday = $100/month, $15 a week Amazon = $60/month
6. Gave myself a $50 "no questions" month allowance
7. Started tracking every day I didn't buy anything

Fedora, I am not sure why you cannot update grub so I can upgrade you from 27 to 28. Don't you want your birthday?? This is like your birthday!

Carving my daughter a spoon out of apple wood from a tree in our backyard!

Beautiful, sunny, dry, cool day. We don't get too many like this in northern Illinois. I'll try not to let it slip away too quickly..