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Getting ready for our Feedback and Fractals show at the Guild Cinema tonight, making fractal buttons as gifts for the people who give us feedback :)

Merry Christmas Eve. Greeted with 🔥skies this morning on the Rio! Have a great day resisters!

Many thanks to @historyhoarder.bsky.social for providing me and my coworker with an impromptu tour of the Pacific Pinball Museum! And thanks to @pacificpinball.bsky.social for making such a great collection of entertainment history available to the public. We had a great time! Dog Soccer FTW!

@historyhoarder.bsky.social I just realized I am staying 20 minutes from the museum! I’m only here until Wednesday afternoon, so I will make an effort to come by Tuesday after work.

I find myself back in the Pacific time zone and reporting tomorrow to a new company who doesn’t want me there until 9 AM. Some poor diner waitress is going to be seeing a lot of my ugly mug over the next few days.

So if you use Verizon for your cell service, you might try going into the app and requesting the PIN to transfer your service to see if they’ll offer you a 12 month discount.

Holy crap, Friday Night Videos. If you know, you know.

Also managed to score a couple ft3 of wood chips after a neighbor across the street had their trees trimmed. The contractor was not bothered at all to dump them in my yard before they wrapped up for the day. Exchanged contact info, showed him how to open the gate. Please, anytime, ese.

Playing VEIN, dropping acid in-game and watching Night of the Living Dead on an in-game TV screen. I can’t express how much this speaks to my soul.

Tried to buy some festive soldering kits from Belgium. The seller has spent €250 and three days trying to find a shipper who will deliver them to me, to no avail. What a stupid fuxking problem to have.

*fumbles around networking inventory* I’m pretty sure I need to get a new network switch installed there this week.

That's a wrap on the 2025 monsoon season. ~75% of New Mexico ended with near to above average rainfall! Some mountain ranges picked up >20" of rain! Northwest New Mexico missed out on most of the monsoon this year with <50% of their average rainfall.

A record number of Flash Flood Warning were issued in New Mexico during this year's monsoon season. 379 in total, beating the old record from 2022 by just 13 warnings. Lincoln County, where Ruidoso is, had the second highest on record. Props to the NWS offices in New Mexico!

Albuquerque had consistent and overall above average dew points almost all monsoon season. Despite that, we ended up 1.41" below average with 3.07" of rain this year. The 32nd driest monsoon on record of 134 years. It was also the 5th warmest.

Tomorrow will be the delivery of last major component of my home energy overhaul, the heat pump. MFers, this kind of project has been my dream for like 20 years, and I’d like to thank this shitty-ass, myopic administration for making it happen. I should never pay another gas or electric bill again.

Anyway people were generally super angy and rude at work today 🥲🥲, at least I have this muppet 🥹

I struggle with thoughts of afterlife. Tonight, in a venue I would love nothing more than to share with an old friend, I can’t, and I want to be okay with that. Jeff, bro, I miss you, and tho you will never know I said this, I say it anyway. I say it into the ether and hope I’m wrong.

Mexican chile crisp, and I already want to do it all over again, but better.

Figures that the evening I decide to sit down and make some DX contacts the sun also decided it wanted to be heard. FTR, I am pro-sun, just wanna make that clear.

😂

What does it say, exactly, that I bought a new gaming PC and ridiculously-sized monitor and I just want to see how three five-years-old games are going to perform? Bonus: can you guess which games?

This fuckin’ guy.

I have a small space I’m not used to customizing for the kind of audio I like. First challenge: What’s “front”?

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, really, is just fucking brilliant. I feel like I’m supposed to be ashamed of this opinion, but I ain’t.

Oh, lawdy, the sky is boomin’. Please please please please please bring some rain.

Aww. I have a Charlie Brown tomato plant.

I bought my home last winter. The previous owner showed me the part of the property where she kept her chickens and excitedly gesticulated how good they were are keeping weeds down. I don’t have chickens and that area has been left largely untouched, and now I have plants that are feeding wildlife.

I have reached that stage of life where the magnifying glass I inherited from my grandparents has become an actual, everyday tool.

If you're visiting Minneapolis, a trip to Can Can Wonderland is *totally* worth it. Free play arcade games and pinball, boozy milkshakes, and some really unique mini golf.

I’ve somewhat readjusted to seeing lizards on the daily, but there are just SO MANY, and today I saw two little black lizards 🦎 I don’t remember seeing at all when I lived here before. Then there’s the angry avocado, Avi, who has been an unexpected pleasure. I’m reintegrating.

As someone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife, one of my biggest challenges is to accept that someone who could have been a beautiful, positive influence on others simply won’t be able to do that in this life or any other. I must, instead, internalize and emulate the influence they did have.

I would like the Merlin app, just once, to show me it heard a “stupid dog, jeez”.

Me to my friend’s cat: lol. it’s almost like you like the box better than the toy! haha! that is so funny. what the heck. Cat: If you loved a joke as much as the laugh, the sun as much as its warmth, your lover as much as their love, you too would love the box as much as the toy, two-legs.

One kitty really, really likes to have her fur roughed. She’s the sweetest, quietest, least in-your-face of the three, but she’ll take a good, hard scratch well beyond the point the other two will get pissy.

Drove up to the crest today and it was brilliant.

Happy 45th US Anniversary The Shining

The smell of the neighbor’s honeysuckle is flashing me back to late spring at my grandmother’s house, and the fact that I inadvertently massacred my own honeysuckle has me on the verge of tears.

I must have missed something in history class.