posts from 2025 / 09

1. We gave our now-refurbished stand mixer to a friend who bakes very well, very regularly.

   While I carried it from our condo to her car, the glass bowl tipped off of the pins it rests on and smashed onto the ground into a million pieces. The mixer still works but now I need to find her a bowl.

   What a move, sheesh.

   I tried to find the last time I posted about something a lot like this happening to me before on mastodon but it predated social media, 😆: https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/sellhhhh-drop-a-tv/

2. Often Repeated in the Same Conversation, Sometimes Immediately

   The grandfather said to their grandson, “….” The grandson, unable to context switch when spoken to casually, said “What?”

   The grandson said to their grandfather, “….” The grandfather, unable to hear when spoken to casually, said “What?”

3. Lo Pan

   Little China Before Burtonism

4. junior (seven next weekend!) is up in his room playing legos and singing “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” which he knows on account of how often I have https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/pink-elephants-on-parade on, he’s got not other association with it at all.

   tempting to look for bootlegs that this hints exist. it sure would be nice if they were already collected into a volume 2 re: “there are countless ad hoc recordings of Ra performing Disney tunes”

   (this post is completely unrelated to television shows)

5. let muni trick out a low-rider '94 New Flyer articulated trolley coach

6. still loving that strava can do this nonsense but not ask me, “hey, are you on a bus right now!? this was supposed to be a walk.”

7. “there’s a Cheers story in it” set me up to expect lighter stuff but these are pretty damned serious stories. I particularly liked “Exit Zero”, “Can Only Houses Be Haunted”, “The Ecstasy of Sam Malone”, “Flowers and Their Meanings”, and “Viola in Midwinter”, which is nearly half the stuff here.

   

8. pointed at “smoker (current or ex)" (it’s true!) on the excuses list to get a covid booster today at Walgreens after getting a flu shot this morning at my local.

   they did not make me prove it by demonstrating that I can roll my own, light one with a single match in heavy wind, blow rings, or french inhale but I would have been willing and able if required.

9. gravely finished reading Strange Monsters of the Recent Past

   

10. Read along with Hubert Dreyfus’s “Philosophy 6” Berkeley lectures (archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619) from 2007, which helped motivate me. Before I started, I wasn’t sure I would continue through and finish the comedy. Having read this Inferno, I’m pretty sure I will.

    

11. tfw you’ve been through hell AND purgatory

    

12. one of our fiddle leaf’s started dropping leaves as they do a month ago and eventually dropped 90% of it’s leaves with the exception of three healthy branches. it looks terrible after like four years of amazing fitness in the same place.

    it took me another month to remember that I on a whim used some “indoor house plant fertilizer” prior that I found under the sink on all the house plants prior to this happening.

    Oops.

13. and it’s funny to look backwards on cause-effect that I just disregard in realtime by applying the fundamental attribution error to myself

    I sprained my right wrist and started doing a no-numbers body weight cut around the same time two weeks ago so I’ve been more clumsy (lack of calories) and handling things funny and bumping into things when I carry stuff w/ my dominant hand that has a sprained wrist so, no surprised that I eventually made a mistake with a kitchen tool with it.

14. very funny having the same injury that will take a month to heal a second time because I get to skip all the treatments that don’t work, and skip learning to not bump into it constantly, I just stop using that finger for anything.

    Bespoke ace wrap over cloth >>>> any sticky band-aid for my skin type, band-aids just fall off and varieties only improve when not if.

15. some of this was made easier by walking the weekend of SF Pride, so that I could walk alley to alley across the numbered streets near Market with impunity because the roads were all closed.

    I really want to walk the Portola but I’m gonna have to learn the bus transfers to even get there, so I’ll probably work through Hayes, the TL, FiDi, and North Beach first instead.

16. 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering SOMA, Rincon Hill, and South Beach loosely and not accurately bound by 16th Street, Market Street the Embarcadero, and Mission Creek.

    I don’t get to SOMA very often, and when I do it’s from Muni or a BART or whatever so it was mentally just a bunch of islands.

    Lots and lots of half-block alleys to dead ends, and in fact I left the dead ends of Welsh St. from Fifth and Morris unwalked. Oh well.

    Next: starting on the north side of market.

    https://mastodon.social/@gravely/114529945329729737

    

17. mad libs

    “things too many people have that nobody wants”

    I’m _(reason)not_drinking_so_much anymore so I’m getting rid of my all of my _(hobby)beer_home_brewing_gear all at once, so if you know anybody in (city and/or county)san_francisco who wants to _(ambitious and unlikely outcome)_come_pick_it_up, let me know.

18. was looking to see if i had posted about how i managed to injure myself while prepping dinner a few years ago then, because last night i did it again, in almost exactly the same way.

    well it turns out that i don’t think i posted about it, but this wish-it-was-a-ligature finger wag that i made up for some other thing was in the search results for “finger”

    ⃔ ☝🏼⃕