Love Boat and Fantasy Island were my Saturday night jams as a little kid in the late 70s/early 80s--probably how I came out to my parents long before I knew what coming out even was. But my pandemic watch was Little House on the Prairie. I watched all 204 episodes. Twice.

I knew that I knew this book! Read it in a Kaiser exam room a couple years ago.

I loved playing with Weebles in my Fisher Price castle. I am past due for my second shingles shot.

The best part is when Karen Black flies a 747 into the building at the stroke of midnight causing the whole thing to capsize.

Boldly intuitive! Landscaping schedules will be found in reflected ceiling plans, stair details will be found in geotechnical reports...perfect for the busy contractor trying to distill their scope of work.

Was in a Kaiser exam room getting changed into a gown last week. The classical music stopped streaming and Noem starts talking about self-deportation. I asked them to turn the music off or don't stream Spotify. They didn't know patients were having to listen to the ads and seemed properly horrified.

I think about the red shag carpet used on the set of "Now You See It" too often. So deep. I wanna mow it forever and ever.

Those ads are for Polident-Coppertone MultiCream.

Alexis Ffrench's "Dreamland" calms me.
youtu.be/4x2AwYIP3_s?...

The five paragraph essay format sucked but it's what ruled while I was in Jr and Sr HS. All those in-class, timed read-then-write tests were such an asset by the time I got to college. I had a strong basic skill and learned how to expand it beyond a narrow mold.

I work at a small hardwood flooring contractor. We just offered a $255k estimate for a massive home remodel scheduled for Feb '26. It's about 1/4 of our annual revenue. It could evaporate depending on tariff rates. We saw a similar size project disappear when Twitter was bought and everyone fired.

Beautiful! Every mom afghan or quilt is a gem! Mine made this giant denim and corduroy quilt for me a few years ago from thrift store jeans.