Week ending Aug 23 2026 Parasocial... ට Life ට Games ට Plushie of the Week #242 ට Dreams

I suddenly missed this blog. But life has been life-ing, and work has been work-ing, and I accept that I have my ebbs and flows. (Probably why I can no longer sustain a community, except for the one…

it just occurred to me that venting/trauma dumping is not the same as blogging. now that's frustrating. what am i even blogging for then? ??? but i's get mad anyways when i realize people out there…

Tomorrow I’m going back to work after a rather lopsided summer break (not feeling up to it physically or mentally), and the social network pendulum is swinging back into a bit of normalcy as I…

Agencies Agencies that establish survey markers Adirondack Surveys Aquatrak Army Corps of Engineers AT&T AZDOT Boston Museum of Science Bureau of Land Management Central Railroad of New Jersey…

I like listening to Sarah Longwell's Bulwark podcasts about focus groups, because I like to hear what the people in the focus group are saying. You don't get everything, obviously, but you do get to…

I think one of my favorite feelings is accomplishment. Completing tasks and having them behind me, knowing I did them to the best of my ability, gets me on kind of a high. I've been feeling that way…

General word / life and mortality

Recovering from health issues and catching up on TV

am i waiting for something to happen?

It was a week with several hockey games, a lot of running, and an awesome book event. End of the Hockey Season I-League ended with our consolation game Monday night. We ended up winning 4-3 with some…

Today all I have done is take apart two drawers, bag the scrap, and run the hover over the mess... read more I hate feeling so weak The post I hate feeling so weak appeared first on Matt's Big…

10:04 PM Having a hard time today choosing whether to buy a new bicycle for going out, particularly a gravel bike, or to buy a used 125cc scooter for weekend rides. I know both of these will bring…

The week’s Bizarro cartoons and photo of me and one of my favorite high school teachers.

So, there is a great perspective de aprender com o Karpathy ainda. Vídeos que não assisti por completo e vídeos que acho que não comecei. And, important to consider these resources. A great…

Links I found interesting in week 34 of 2026

Notes, thoughts and highlights from Week 34, 2026. The post Wk 34-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.

what a wonderful bird the frog are or the crispy decompensated bits on the edge are always the tastiestlast night, i watched a canadian indie that was like requiem for a dream but with club level…

A friend running a company was telling me about a run of hard decisions he’d had to make recently to get to a major milestone – hitting cash flow positive. Or, as he put it with a grin,…

Week of August 16 🐝 Started off the week by getting stung by a yellow jacket trying to get my idiot dog back in the house. Thankfully I’m not allergic, but that shit hurts. 👎 I am so over “tech…

Is the summer ending or just beginning? Boy, it’s kind of hard for me to tell, despite the date posted at the top of this blog…

Current goings-on I am raising money for Blood Cancer United because of my own experience coming down with leukemia. On my fundraising page I describe the very first awareness of what was happening…

 As of 08.23.2026Artists and Bands2D Cat (8x)2Cellos (2x)A Mighty Wind soundtrack (2x)ACTORS (1x)Acid Arab (1x)Ad Infinitum (1x)After Thoughts (1x)Aiboforcen (1x)Aki Azuma (2x)Akuma Dollz…

The other day me and Gooseberry sat down to try playing Big Walk together. She mentioned wanting to try controlling it like I do, so I put her on the Switch2 in tabletop mode right next to me on the…

Following on from my previous article about biting the bullet and retiring completely from my current part-time job, I received a number of suggestions about how to enjoy the additional time I’ll be…

I found a tweet that gave me permission to solve problems ambiently — as I've always done — and it continues to pay dividends.

I am tired. But I am not exhausted. I just want to do things in my own pace, not in a hurry. Jog, but with shorter steps. Eat, but in smaller bites. I am tired, but there is joy. I am tired but there…

Sydney Marathon organisers say finisher medals featuring German stadium an ‘unfortunate error’ – Hahahahaha, I thought that looked familiar! I rode my bike past it four years ago…

Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out

Fuck it.

Over the last few weeks I've been transitioning off of some medication so things have been a bit up and down. I'm also struggling with finding the things that are actually important to me. What is it…

I’ve been holding off in writing about what’s happening with me IRL because there are a lot of things up in the air. I’m currently writing this part of the post the day before a deciding factor of my…

There's a wonderful joy to enjoy in the tactile nature of everyday objects. How can such a small and arbitrary thing be so compelling?

I love our bigger bathtub post-renovation, and I make good use of it. I was running low on bubble bath last week so I headed to Daiso to see what they had. I ended up getting a container of Milky…

2026 Washington DC Fountain Pen Supershow August 23rd, 2026 August is pretty packed on the pen and stationery events calendar in the US and my schedule includes attending two big ones, starting with…

The kids will be heading back to school tomorrow. Here are some memories of our vacate at Wildwood. I can’t wait for the winter to come. We’re ready for you, El Niño.

Cleaning out some old links. “Gravity is worth asking about.” Linked for describing the “zero-one-infinity” rule, but applied to things you don’t want. reTerminal Sticky, a new…

Week 34 summary - relaxing day offs, travels to a new landmark and more.

From a 1971 social network that never died, a watch-caught heart problem, building without predicting, exams in the age of chatbots, chasing what excites you, and writing snail mail.

ARC TBR Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (Dec 1 2026) The Archaeology of Falling Worlds by Megan Chee (Feb 23 2027)

I previously shared about my four cats, so to keep Blaugust going while I travel this weekend, I thought I should share some pictures from them at their uhh…most cat. Enjoy! Elton John,…

August 16-22, 2026 Hello, friends. In all honesty, I feel like I've forgotten how to write here lmao. I've been finding my footing aka trying to relearn how to write (?) ever since I renewed my…

§ Last Sunday I found myself at a baseball game for the second time in as many months. This time it was for an end of summer get together caroline’s school organized for all of the teachers. The game…

🌩️ And… we have a thunderstorm now. The kind where the thunder just… keeps… on… rolling.

Aug 3 - Aug 23 been very busy three weeks... Exercising I have been quite consistent with running 3-4 times a week, each time a 5km. I saw the Sydney Marathon train the other day, and I plan to be a…

I’m dying 🤣 As someone from Mackay originally, Betoota has nailed it with this piece.

How much does the SQE actually cost in 2026? Exam fees after September rise, resits, appeals, prep courses compared, and costs nobody budgets for

Sunday Asides #109 The trailer for the new reboot of "A Different World" dropped this week, and of course, nerds are never satisfied. Well, Black folks are never satisfied, but when it comes to media…

There appears to be some confusion in my household about the meaning of the word empty. My humans believe a food bowl is empty when there is no food left in it. This is incorrect. A food bowl is…

I have decided to announce my sabbatical, sabbatical, sabbatical-batical-batical.