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Low down and dirty, simple but never boring.

This is the way!

Here's the sign of success. (screen shot.) I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat was automatically cross-posted to Bluesky via micro.blog. Because the post has a title, it was routed to standard.site. What does that mean? I still don't really understand, when I do I will explain it here. But part of the answer is that we now have a data structure in atmosphere that looks like an RSS item with different names for things. Are there feed readers in AT-Proto-Land? If so, can we ping one of them to say hey there's a new post in the standard.site world, so please show it to subscribers? And I keep wondering, why not just make all of Bluesky capable of handling the features standard.site calls for. Twenty years is too long to have such a limited view of what text is. See textcasting for more dogma. #

 

Highlight of the week: we were eating lunch when this family of raccoons — one adult and two little kits — came to look for figs (none looked ripe to me but they found a few they deemed edible)

Looking forward to: the wildfire smoke is supposed to clear out this weekend after a long smoky week, will be happy to have clean air again!

Stuff I did:

• 0.75 hours consulting admin — project officially on hold
• 4.25 hours business development — updating my SOQ for the state roster
• woke up with a craving for chickpeas so I made breakfast chickpeas for Saturday brunch — made wells and threw in some eggs which worked, though the sauce was missing a little something — I never ate chickpeas growing up but I could eat them every day nowadays
• our power went out unexpectedly on Saturday so we boogied downtown, grabbed a gelato ($7 for one scoop 😳), and wandered along the waterfront up to my favorite little flower garden 🌼
• pissed off my freezer so apparently it stopped working for an hour and my salmon started to defrost… so I cooked dinner immediately after finishing breakfast 😂 freezer was 34 degrees F when I pulled the fish out, it’s supposed to be 0F 😬
• flomped on the bed and my bed frame collapsed 😅 turns out two screws on the bracket by my head had fallen out completely and two more had come mostly unscrewed, so the bed was being held together by a single screw — we replaced the four screws but it might be time for a new frame
• power went out a second time on Friday in the ten minutes it took to drive downtown and we forgot to bring cash 😒 got stuck in traffic because the lights were out, but finally escaped beyond the outage to grab snacks, and the power was back on by the time we got home!
• two weight sessions — I realized that I’ve been putting off doing weights because changing clothes midday is annoying, so I’ve just been wearing my normal clothes — doing it shittily is better than not doing it at all
• a friend from college reached out and we caught up a bit

Dinners:

• sourdough griddle wraps (added oregano to the batter which was nice) + orange juice
• teriyaki takeout — tofu yakisoba
• baked potatoes + creamed leeks + orange juice
• roasted red pepper and smoked mozzarella “paninis” + potato chips + orange juice
• salmon + leftover baked potato + frozen rice + tzatziki sauce + sauteed zucchini ribbons + blackberry soda
• pigs in a blanket with Pillsbury crescent rolls + strawberry biscuits
• leftover salmon + rice

Reading:

• Read Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who’ve Had Enough by Roderick Douglass and Context Window by Scott Boms
• Finished reading A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu 👍
• Started reading Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert
• Continued reading Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan
• DNF’d Escape Velocity by Jessica Marting, Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox, and Oh No, There’s a Dragon in My Bookshop! by Ember Holt

Fun stuff I saw:

• cute little guys by Aleph Geddis
• haha hell yeah this novelty sailboat sweater ⛵
• this product graphic is inadvertently hilarious modern art lol — is it AI or weird photoshop? is it a jaded model or a mannequin? whatever it is it’s got the uncanny valley going

Pretty stuff I saw:

• dig the cover for A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang
• also the cover for A Guess at the Riddle by David Z Albert

New music I listened to:

• Ancient Predators EP by Wokeupfuzzy (via)

Nature notes:

• flock of bushtits flurrying all over the oceanspray
• found a dead mole in the backyard
• watched a juvenile bald eagle having trouble landing in the stiff breeze at the park
• we moved the camera to point at the fig tree… caught our branch-bending culprits in the act 🦝🦝 (video clip)