Intestinal Fortitude

Or a rain swale instead of those cobblestones at least?

Haha I see what you did there. I just don't want to work SO MUCH anymore. Like, maybe half days? Three days a week? But still get paid the same (or more...I'd take more), of course.

Petition to make Thanksgiving through New Year's an extended holiday so you don't have to work.

Getting back to Work Schedule tomorrow morning is going to be brutal.

It's 5:05PM. Sunset was at 4:13PM. One of my neighbors is currently leaf blowing.

a man in a sweater is standing in front of a christmas tree holding a christmas stocking . Alt: Carlton Banks dancing in a Christmas sweater with Christmas decorations behind him

Welcome to the time of year when I listen *exclusively* to Christmas music.

A dog with a towel around his head

Got his towel already for the cookout
Hopes the show ends soon

He wants his plate

Somerville/Cambridge

This year's dog show makes me feel like I'm watching Best in Show or Pitch Perfect if it were about dogs.

"Like I say, if the judge picks through all that hair and only finds on eye they've got the wrong end of the dog"

just use the fucking library.

Congrats fellas.

(But seriously, it's been a rough fall for UMass.)

I see what you did there.

Hot take: Petsi Pies isn't/aren't that good.

TL;dr - Our taxes are gonna go up but not as much as they could.

*lookin' at tonight's City Council agenda*
Oh.
Uh, yeah, I think I'll skip tonight's meeting live and just catch the video at some point. I'm reading a good book anyway.

Cool cool

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Wanna play a fun Black Friday game? Put some stuff you want or are planning to buy from Amazon in your cart now and watch the prices go up a bit before Friday.

(It's more fun when you start doing this earlier in November but I've been busy and forgot to tell you you should play too.)

This makes me so damn glad I canceled my subscription*.

*Full disclosure: I canceled it in 2022 because they were giving a platform to anti-mask, anti-COVID protection measure think pieces.

I'd probably use StoryGraph more if it would let me tag books I listen to as "audiobooks."

And the federal contractors. And the federally-funded researchers.

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And now they're headed back to ATL. Longest flight to nowhere. (Mechanical issue, per Reddit reporters)

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Just quick holiday shopping tip: DO IT NOW & if you can during a store's off hours. You'll get better service & have more selection than when it gets crazy later AND making the crazy times a little less crazy means better service then too!

I'm sticking with your guidance.

ICYMI we got a OML complaint about the citation. Sigh. somervillema.legistar.com/LegislationD...

So that's 25% off masks and test kits with code BFM25 through 11/28.

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That's a real "I'm sorry you feel that way"

Remember when they called 911 on Chara?

Mark Niedergang would be so disappointed if he could hear how many leaf blowers have been going in my neighborhood throughout the day today.

(But seriously, why do we even have a leaf blower ordinance?)

Henry Knox, painted by Charles Willson Peale

16 NOVEMBER 1775, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: Henry Knox, new head of the Continental Army’s artillery, departs Continental headquarters with his brother William on the mission that will take him to Fort Ticonderoga, to retrieve the cannon captured from the garrison there.