Cabinet organization is my Roman Empire.
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Cabinet organization is my Roman Empire.
Previously this was a black hole. We chucked things in but they didn’t come back. I need to do the same to the cabinet next to it. But I also need cabinet pulls, which you probably noticed.
It was about an hour to install, most of that spent dodging the 12 year old who decided to make her lunch for tomorrow while I was doing it.
Get in, losers. We’re organizing cabinet space.
This is just how Joshes are. Every Josh is like this.
One of my devs wore a DD2 shirt during the onsite and I was all “JOSH WAS THAT FOR MEEEEE?” and he said “no I just really like Darkest Dungeon but also yes, because I know how much you like it.”
Oh no oh nooooo
Grew a melon. 😌
Whenever someone in the wild tells me they play Arena, I first thank them for enjoying the game, and I second thank them for helping me pay my mortgage. (It is important to me that we have a roof and healthcare.)
I’d show you what we did for Eldest but hers apparently needed developer which was NOWHERE MENTIONED ON THE BOX I READ IT LIKE FIVE TIMES so now we have to run to Sally tomorrow she’s stuck with blonde-ish tips until then.
Nail polish remover removes Manic Panic I have discovered.
I gave myself a leetle hidden dark teal streak to mimic something a former coworker used to do and Manic Panic is a nightmare but I like it.
Alien: Earth is…good????
Wondering if anyone’s ever fucked around with saltines or ritz + cocoa + powdered sugar + ???? as a sub. Also I bet Trader Joe’s has a replacement? Or Cost Plus. Someone’s gotta make a cocoa thin cookie.
Protests are not about ease. Selma to Montgomery was not easy to organize. It took three attempts. The people running ICE out of town are risking arrest. If it were “easy” to protest, it wouldn’t be a protest. These people are the performative clowns we knew them to be.
It’s like something out of my worst nightmares (the ones where my mapping software doesn’t work and I have to try to remember how to get around downtown on my own reconnaissance).
I still wish I had room for a serviceberry.
I did buy like 100 bulbs (no joke) for spring, but those will go in the front. I intend to use a power tool.
I’d like to build my own but what you also don’t see are the 20-odd projects inside the house, also unfinished. Plus, you know, my other jobs (mom, wife, Arena, writing, bath taking, migraineur).
A mix of annuals and perennials. I need more bushes and uprights to fill it out but those are expensive and I don’t know if you’ve heard but there’s a tariff thing going on. (Cedar trellises currently cost as much as wrought iron, it’s dumb.)
In these last weeks of summer I’m still trying to figure out what I want my backyard space to be in Year 2, but I’m also okay with what I got done in Year 1.
Crazy for the world to be mourning that you’re still alive.
The...only.... (wheeze) Baldur's Gate alone I've clocked 365 hours. I couldn't tell you how many hours I put into Shadowlands or Battle for Azeroth, the last two WoW expansions I really, truly played, to say nothing of GemStone III.
As the kids say: It's still a banger.
There's an episode of @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social on exactly this subject matter and it is...horrifically excellent? Horrexcellent? Okay, I mean, you're either someone for whom the horror becomes fascination or you're not. History be like that. Do not listen with children near.
For those of you who are PAX-enjoyers -- the Void Seattle. We Arena Rule & Duel people were there yesterday having our onsite. It was lovely and the coffee was good.
Dog: the K-pop Demon Hunter
Chill, well behaved dogs in a workplace? No problem. Especially if the owner has first checked around and made sure no one has a phobia. High strung asshole dogs that yip and bark and can’t control themselves? No, please, no.
Val stopped by on their way home and we talked a long time and that put an end to my in-person team week here on Arena. I am ready to once again crawl into my house-sized hermit shell and hide away.
I don’t normally like beer BUT.
👀 👀
I guess I bought this FOURTEEN YEARS AGO when a friend put it on sale and then I shoved it in a box and forgot about it. I’m sorry, Ryan! Anyway, he’s framed now. I cannot believe how bad I am at getting to this shit.
Soooo close to picking up a mini PC and a Zigbee dongle and doing the conversion to Home Assistant. So close.
i was worried the lawsuit was going to be a multimillion dollar handout to the proud boys in the form of a sweetheart settlement deal, so i'm glad to see evidence that the government is actually fighting the suit.
wow sick I am definitely voting for cuomu now. Question I live near Tacoma and have only been to New York “the big ol’ apple” three times in my life does this matter?
I also found an AMAZING school photo of me wearing a pullover straight out of Good Place wardrobe. Eleanor Shellstrop would definitely have stolen this pullover from kid me and not felt bad about it, because she’s an Arizona garbage bag and that top was TIGHT.
Going through old things. One of the only cards I have written by me and addressed to both my parents (from before they divorced) is also addressed to ducks and my love of ducks. My dad and I used to go feed them at his hospital on breaks. I have always been into ducks, turns out. Even at age 5.
Ah yes, the famous Hitler-Walther PPK Negotiations of WWII. Who can forget.
I made a ham and cheese with Gruyère and horseradish mustard for breakfast on a Costco croissant and split it with my husband. My son made himself an egg. Who knows where eldest is. Probably under her bed. We are now hiding from the burning ball of hate like the vampires we are. Hisssss.
To some degree every politician is this man but also…this man. I cannot help but think of him whenever I see that pasted on smile. And like…Ellis wasn’t being particularly prophetic when he invented the Smiler and the Beast. But also. Woof.
Love it.
Dad’s heart is back in sinus rhythm. The old coot (and his many health care providers) did it.
Somewhere in Texas, repair crews prepare to rebuild another apartment complex mysteriously flattened by an ammonia plant explosion, this time with no CSB investigation to explain why.
Also check out my hot new pegboard. Six wall anchors and six stud screws. Total lunch bag domination. Are you not entertained?
This is my first and original cast iron pan. It is of course Lodge. I bought it to make cornbread. Starting bid: a functioning democracy.
Oh man. We just put up this pegboard and I went to hang this and I guess I totally forgot. I could probably make some real money off some MAGA chuds on eBay right now eh?
This literally just happened in Louisiana but nah we don’t need an agency to investigate.
I just saw this. I’m so bummed. Did anyone tell @swiftonsecurity.com?
Okra’s a tough one, yeah. I think they also do simmered greens. Honestly when I think of grits I think of DER WÄFFLE HOOSEN. Sorry that’s an extreme in-joke between an old friend and me but you probably still know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, I did like Cracker Barrel once. Mainly for fried apples and biscuits. It was the luxury breakfast spot when I worked a night shift. Don’t hate me for living in Missouri for 13 years.
Their “culture and heritage” has been subsidized out from under them and they just keep blaming others for it because they refuse to face the truth. Also Sysco is a fucking blight on our tastebuds.
Recall going to a small town in Iowa with my future husband. Excited to have “home cooked” food. We went to the local mom and pop. Everything Sysco. Bread and jams from Walmart. Nothing tasted good. “They cater to the truckers on I-80, Steph,” he told me. He was right.
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C’mooooon cosmic claw machine.
Forever mad these movies are so bad because Lee Pace was and is exceptional.
The man is perfect even when he’s fucking up.
This is like a 90s version of Lee Pace Thranduil getting his cloak wrapped around his head.
stalacTite and stalagMite It was the visual of the spelling for me. - The "T" looks like it's descending the ceiling. - The "M" looks like it's jutting from the floor. I didn't get this from anyone, I don't think. I think I thunk my way around to it my own self.
I legit thought the same thing.
"It was hosted by the 31st District Democrats! You can't tell me there wasn't an AGENDA there!" (has vapors) Wait till you hear who the pastor at Puyallup's Motion Church told his members to vote for their school board. For the record, the school district REGULARLY rents out space to churches.
Oh thank god, a parent in support who was actually there and is dropping actual facts. This whole thing is depressing. It's one thing to see raging faces on comments, it's another to see them in real life at school board meetings, the living, breathing product of the media brainslop stew.
Watching a whole lot of white Washington parents yelling at the board about groomers because a drag show rented an elementary school in the summer on a weekend to hold a community event. Also invoking Mahmoud v. Taylor to try and look smart but reminder SCHOOL WAS NOT IN SESSION, DUMBASS.
well I guess it's just time to set the house on fire, Xib
"Look I jumped into the pit once and made $30 bazillion dollarbucks twenty years ago so that means every time I jump into the pit we'll make another $50 fafillion dollarbucks IT'S JUST MATH and definitely not a fluke."
“I mean, if the team WANTS the pit. I strongly CAUTION AGAINST IT but. They say they’re strong swimmers and have rappelled before. A few of them claim to ‘know parkour’ after playing Assassin’s Creed/watching that one The Office episode. Who am I to judge. I just have 30 years of experience.”
This is great.
Game development is just like any history. It rhymes it rhymes it rhymes.
Trivial really how many story points is this do you think we can timebox this spike?
GAME PRODUCTION, SEEING THIS DIAGRAM: (whispering) I can fix her.
If you can manage to find my old filing cabinet, I am 99% certain you will also find the googly eyes inside.
A HOT DOG SANDWICH, YOU SAY????
No cheating, post the last pic of your pet. Her claws needed a trimming.
(whispers) I liked Skeleton Crew.
DARTH BORTLES
I just want a paint scraper and an hour alone with it. I did not realize how soothing and purposeful the old, neutral decor was until these photos started to come out.
Dude has no real political experience and he's saying all the right words. I hope he wins.
I will never convince antivax people to get a flu vaccine, but if you’ve put it off for any reason whatsoever, here is another reason to get yours: they are protective against heart attacks.
His wife was on some home organization show I watched from the early 2020s and he cameos for a couple scenes and the…total lack of interest he has in what she’s doing is just depressing. He just doesn’t seem to care. Maybe he was tired from a long shoot. Idk. But he just didn’t seem to give a shit.
Taylor has always had big “pick me girl” vibes.
I think the key is being a badass. But yes that too.
I think a piece of media that goes along with/compliments another is successful when I think about it with the other, and I think about this video and its visuals every time this song comes on my playlist. I love it.
We uninstalled it on our kids’s machines several months ago. Zero temptation to go back.
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the bottles that hold their prescriptions, and the lids that keep kids from getting to them. These are their stories.
srsly man if a creepy kid named Eveline shows up saying she just wants a family…yknow what, just let her do what she wants. It can’t be any worse for you, Jordan.
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'Logan Lucky' released in theaters 8 years ago and this George R.R. Martin joke still holds true today
in case it isn't obvious from the last few days of posts, I found an old image archive.
this was also a request for people not to miss Battlenachos...because it would make Dean sad.
in hindsight, I think I did a good job with this sign for an ice cream social on my old team.
Good question. It doesn’t! I think you have to use whole milk, though. I have made it a few times and never had it curdle. Admittedly it’s been a while, so if I’m wrong I’m gonna blame modern milk.
I'm posting this because the restaurant is gone and this is some of the best lemonade I've ever had. You're welcome.
I imagine him chewing them obnoxiously as he does it. The $5 is just to throw some small monetary value on the deal, just to show you how little it's worth to him.
If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::
I MEAN.
I mean, she also owes herself for lack of critical thinking. If you read the article she (claims) she didn’t drink the milk, that her toddler did and that he get sick and it was cleaning up after him that exposed her to the bacteria that killed her fetus. This still has WAPF written alll over it.
But anyway, there are also some good moments, so I guess I'll live. And I like Maps a lot. (She is new and if I never write about her again I will probably be very sad.)
There are so many more words I wish I had to spend on this story.
The smell of rehydrated onions would linger for GENERATIONS.