Morning chore: explain idioms to my five year old. Today's installment: "6 one, half dozen the other" It's a good reminder that anyone who's spoken English for 5 years or less will not understand them.

Fundraiser calls for an org I care about but doesn't fit in my current charity plans. I tell him no and that I have a unifying theory about how I give my money. Dude laughs because I said "unifying theory." I didn't realize it's funny to have values. 🤷🏻

The leading edge of the storm over NE Montgomery county had some pebble sized hail. My dogs have great fur to catch and preserve them!

So I have two chores this afternoon: get the tax documents together and walk the dogs. I procrastinated by walking the dogs. 10 minutes in thunder, 12 minutes, small hail. Fine, universe, I'll do the taxes.

They're out in Colesville, MD. All of a sudden today. #CicadaWatch2021

What, now they come with sunglasses? #cicadas

All you gotta do is stand there and watch for moving grass (and weeds) and you'll find entirely too many #cicadas

TIL noise cancelling headphones are not effective against #cicadas. Apparently "phasers on stun" wasn't included in the algorithms.

One way to handle a tired work day: sub Reba in for me.

Questionable decisions, turtle edition. Lay your 10 eggs by a swing set.

“i don’t have time,” i hear all the time from people. i’ve shifted to variants of “i haven’t made time for that” and it’s felt so much more empowering. i own my time and do what i choose to do.

They still make ice cream trucks. The boys love the surprise. Reba wants to know if they sell frosty paws.

fml this is my every day now (cuz it's always dog walk *day)

panda bean

fanastical numbers by the fantastical boy

"Human capital" is a horrible term. Almost as bad as calling people "resources" and "manpower" or "headcount." Can we just call ourselves people instead of referring to them in the same terms as money and office furniture?

#Simone is still the greatest gymnast ever, no matter what happened today. and so so so courageous to say why she withdrew. put her right up there with #NaomiOsaka and #serenawilliams as some of my heroes.

Kölsch summer continues. Good take on this style, UNION Craft Brewing!

Trying to unsubscribe from marketing emails for two weeks now, ⁦L.L.Bean⁩ I guess your unsubscribe API endpoint is broken? Or "broken?"