Today's office.

I decided to use the big tv instead of the projector because the projector light pierces my brain. To use the tv, I have to put my Word docs on the Google drive. Fine. Google docs uses different margins so my Word docs on the tv are fubar. Just ... fuck these tech giant assholes.

Not me asking the Google AI to compare and contrast the results of a cataclysmic pole-flip between where I live in Northern California and Southern Chile.

When you accept the fact you're sick and that nothing you wanted to accomplish this weekend is going to happen so now you're free to feel relieved you can sleep on the couch all day ...

When someone comments on your newest article without commenting on what you wrote then asks your thoughts on their stuff like you've just got all this time to traipse through their writings but then you do and it's all AI ...

On an out-of-town fun family get-together, but missing my beasts.

What're you guys doin'? nappin'? can I ... can I join you!?

My petsitter sent a video of her rubbing Dog's belly, telling Dog she's a queen - a beauty! and telling me how well animals respond to the "right words." I didn't tell the petsitter I get the same reaction when I rub Dog's belly and (lovingly) tell her she's a pain in the ass.

My sister and brother-in-law brought ingredients for Godfathers (scotch whiskey & amaretto). Bf brought ingredients for old fashions, including fancy cherries. I created the Old Fashioned American Godfather, then for shits and giggles, added a squeeze of lime.

We're currently enjoying my version of tinto de verano ... red wine, 7-up, bitters, splash of cranberry juice, blood orange squeeze, like squeeze & fancy cherry. That's right, I've drunk most of it already.

When he heard Bf & I were making pancakes for breakfast, step-dad wanted to know everyone's pancake fantasy. Everyone: 🤨 He was imagining pancakes with strips of bacon cooked into them. Breakfast: bacon pancakes loaded with scrambled eggs, folded like tacos & dipped in syrup.

We had perfect weather for the entire vacation. We're leaving and Mother Nature is all, "I'm turning on the rain now, drive safe!"

Brekky in Langlois before hitting the road home ... and this is Oregon ... pronounce the "s."