it hasn’t been a dry july, and that wasn’t really the goal (I had a glass of wine now and then), but I haven’t had a beer (or booze) in a month, on to the next month.
this has been infinitely easier than quitting smoking was! probably gonna stop posting about it!
furious I can’t afford to have this mailing address https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/69-Beaver-St-94114/home/1645669, I’d put “apartment 420” on the mailbox and make it my mailing address, it would rule and the USPS person would have to deliver a “nice” every time they delivered the mail, I’d sit on the stoop and wait
looked up what buying a tenancy in common involved and the first hit was about how they were a great way to “get exposure to the san francisco real estate market” l m a o
is there a german word for noticing that yet again a sliver of szechuan peppercorn is stuck on the back of your tongue because you made kung pao the night before and need to buy a new mortar and pestle and yet again the water pick doesn’t reach and you gag a little and give up?
it’s the 148th of March, 2020, and our 22 month old kid has passed the “using the word fuck in one of it’s many correct ways” milestone, amongst one of his first hundred spoken words
we’re so proud
F for side b of broken on cassette
“The California Street Journal”
sf chronicle reader mode as poetry
I like Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR).
✅ doing enough cardio on the bike to have broken a toe nail
they ended up using a long pole like the apollo theater but with a v on the end instead of a hook. i was giving my kid a bath and missed it but the dude is walking with the cops to an ambulance and not hurt it seems so, that’s better than the alternative
so, they are alternating that machine and saying “please drop the bar” over a megaphone
well i guess the @efnypizza@twitter.com reporting was true, a shitload of pizzas just showed up for the cops
sounds like what was five protestors is now a couple of dozen with pretty solid “LET HIM GO” demands
cops are getting riot helmets and sticks out so that they can riot in response, which, i mean, isn’t holding a stick why someone called them in the first place?
the situation seems unchanged five hours later, only the police are now also being protested, “we want social workers not police”
Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of emergency medical technicians just in case anybody gets hurt. They are just out of frame holding shotguns too.
a negotiator has arrived
somebody called 911 and now there are about twenty cops at 18th and San Carlos to take care of somebody who won’t put down a peice of rebar when they yell at him to put it down
NYC cops promise to chokehold NYP cops for breaking new chokehold law, says NYPD
Me? No thanks, I don’t use defcons. I get bummed out on life itself.
“housing at all income levels” is a truly dogshit slogan, up there with “separate but equal” and “don’t ask don’t tell”. just disgusting.
i call upon everyone who Can’t Complain Really to join me and pledge to never live in one of the luxury condos they turn our prime-location city museums into after the collections-graciously-provided-bys expand their mansions a la LA’s Huntington and rehome the art
science hasn’t figured out all-spicy and/or all-mild shishito peppers and yet this is the so called future
we knocked a chandelier over the bed’s fake crystal pendant off often enough changing the sheets that we stopped putting it back on and stuck it an east-facing window instead, to cast dozens of spectrums around every morning, and one just hit my coffee
this site is cool because I’ll learn stuff like, did you know that Elvis Costello’s backing band on the My Aim is True recording was basically Huey Lewis and the News minus Huey Lewis? and not post it because “jeeze everybody probably knows that, I’ll get canceled for posting”
decline pushups? don’t mind if i do
After using Tang powder for years, I was sick of the waste I was generating (and cost) so I bought an orange juicer and basic pulp filter. You know what? It tastes better. Way better. It’s much, much cheaper and has far less waste, too.
listening to RATM for the first time in twenty years during the workout this morning, powering through the subsequent two decades I remember of forums poster mockery
CORRECTIONS
I thought of this post last night and went to go watch some Roadshow and was reminded that AR is on PBS, which I do pay for, not NPR, which I have never and will never pay for.
Sorry for getting my fake-nationalized media mixed up.
what if shut up little man modern day?
Haskett: [unintelligible]
Huffman: “shut up, little man!”
building washing machine, we will never be friends, please just wash my clothes
the author of this storyline named the acting dhs fella first name “Chad” last name “Wolf”? come on, who is editing this garbage?
disclosure: i have an npr membership but only so that i can watch Antiques Roadshow because that shit is hard to pirate
when the bosses tell you they listen to and love NPR, believe them
you see amongst other want ads in the MISC column, perhaps a message for someone, or some thing:
TRY A DASH OF LIQUID SMOKE IN YOUR MASHED POTATOES
you clip out the tip and paste it on the board, run a string to it, and affix the string with a tack
you know 14 words, I drill 100 words every morning and every night, we are not the same.
men in tech worried about diversity hiring initiative slippery slopes leading quota-driven hiring of unqualified candidates consider shutting the fuck up forever, you are the unqualified candidate and you already have a job
This department has worked
①④ DAYS
without a beer
The best record previously was
⑦ DAYS
DO YOUR PART!
Ooh! I hate that rabbit! etc
baby leaves
treating SIP like i’m some kinda astronaut, mission control (my belt) demanded i add some basic static stuff that i haven’t done in 20 years to the high intensity bicycle trainer stuff i do: pushups, crunches, planks, squats, lunges, etc, yesterday and from now on
ouchie 😭
one shitload of rosemary from the garden
one cup of sugar overnight last night
one cup of juice from two grapefruits and two blood oranges today
one cup of apple cider vinegar With The ‘Mother’ tomorrow
——
sippin’ vinegar syrup next weekend
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
this label is 😚 (i am gonna try to be a shrub guy now)
having a second door with a bunch of locks on it that goes to an unfinished interior stairwell >>>>>>>>> having a spiral staircase
always wanted a bookshelf with a ladder
a christo (r i p) and jean-claude style wrap project to pair up every hostile-architecture boulder pair in the city
somebody in my building moved out and left their
𝓗𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮
𝓑𝓪𝓵𝓵
FREE!
huh, weird, just learned that the little blue square stickers with yellow = signs on them on people’s cars are actually Hillary Rodham Clinton stickers
elephant goggles, FREE, on the 300 block of 10th Ave, at Clement
might fuck around and quit drinking a week ago
“This whole covid thing is caused by zoning.” —Jane Jacobs, 1962
a lot of hand-wringing about illiberalism and not a lot of calls to platform the people they are concern trolling, just that they should somehow platform themselves. pass.
continued solidarity with parents of toddlers during this trying time
working through Frasier (1993) and in S4E12, “Death and the Dog”, Frasier off hand mentions another person named “Frobisher” and I’m all “damnit why do I know that name” and as soon as I see this I remember it’s in Cloud Atlas but also this guy, lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Frobisher#Second_voyage
andreesen-horowitz? jeeze yeah I’ll give you a rating, it’s ★☆☆☆☆, more like andreesen-bore-o-witz
how likely am I to recommend andreesen-horowitz’s portfolio on a scale from 1 to 10? hrm lets see, 1!
/me flicks a cigarette over his shoulder while putting on cool shades