I have a business dinner at an Italian restaurant tomorrow and an allergy to fennel. The only item on the menu that I have any confidence in being safe for me to eat is cheesecake. Fingers crossed I survive!

A few weeks ago I got asked to be the Chair for the first quarter of a new meeting and I said yes. I got the meeting invite a few days later and responded "tentative," only to receive a message a few minutes later reminding me that it was my meeting.

The new puppy sleeps 20+ hours a day, but the four hours a day he's awake he sure has a lot to say.

I've been taking pallets apart to reuse in building a goat shed. Had to start chanting "reduce, reuse, recycle" after awhile. The goats better appreciate all of this.

At Goat School today they did an ultrasound to check pregnancy and they were like "that's the spine" and everyone else was like "ah yes, I see it" and pointing and I still have no idea what they were seeing.

Mahomes is truly historically great, but amidst all the hagiography today, let us remember that a FG left Josh Allen in position for a game-winning TD drive, and it was Steve Spagnuolo's defense that shut the door on the Bills. This has been a Steve Spagnuolo appreciation post.

Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.

I’m not going to read the study or the article. I’m going to assume the science is sound and justify shaving five years off of my retirement date. This is great news.

My strongest social skill at events is finding the other people who don’t want to be there and bonding over how we can’t wait to go home. They’re never long lasting friendships, but they are ones I remember fondly.

Three inches of fresh snow atop the 8 that haven't had a chance to melt yet. The lamb was aghast to discover more snow, but protested silently. The goose opted to share her feelings loudly, wings spread, shuffling back and forth.
The only sound in an eerily quiet morning.

Chiefs fans when this loss keeps Burrow out of the playoffs

I hope I remember how excited I was about this blizzard in a few days when I'm trudging through 12" of snow to feed all the livestock as they blame me for the weather.

This is the first year the animals will be primarily eating hay that I made myself and now when they waste it, I take it much more personally.

In a weird spot as a lifelong Chiefs fan because I've been saying the NFL is rigged since the Pats won it after 9/11 and spent two decades getting called crazy. Now when people say it's rigged for the Chiefs I'm like yeah babe, it's been rigged. But now it's rigged in my favor and I'll enjoy it.

Planning the garden for next year and read that 50 onion plants would be enough for a person a year and I am pretty confident that's only a 10 week supply, actually.

I live in a series of carefully negotiated treaties with my dog. If any one of the treaties is violated, he will make our lives difficult. There's the rain treaty, the gate treaty, the treat treaty, the grooming treaty, the head scritchies treaty, the fireworks treaty, the no backtracking treaty...