Christine Bryant-Ryback

Ahem, first graduating class to attend all four years there, that is - so I got a full four years of experiencing the consequences of some interesting choices there

This is hilarious to me, because I was in the first graduating class of Monticello High and it basically *opened* already over capacity - we had classes in trailers at a brand new school in 1998. Hand-wringing about Albemarle school capacity re: housing when that ship sailed like two decades ago lol

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Please tell Freya we said she is a Good Girl

In all likelihood I probably conflated some of my 1993 and 1996 Albemarle County storm memories when I shared them with Emily, but each definitely amounted to 1-2 weeks without power and my family had no backup generator for the well water, so all-in-all some bad times were had

Allll the time! 🥰 Love my sweet cornchip man

Please tell Buddy Queso he’s a good boy!

Our Queso’s shelter name was “Chili Cheese Frito aka Charlie” - foster family called him Charlie Brown because the shelter name was too silly, shelter folks abbreviated him to ChiliCheese anyway, and I chose to not choose sides 😂

So it’s going to be THAT kind of week, huh

Why yes, I am seeking distractions from the news

I’m sad I missed her last show here, I love her

The kombucha makes sense given how much of Dry January is left and how delightful a snowday beverage is

One of the smartest things I ever argued for on SCSS projects back in the day was basically keeping every custom z-index as a variable and all keeping all those variables listed in one place - still some random choices but slightly easier to reason with holistically

Still jealous of my former coworker who had that mousepad where the boob shape was repurposed for a corgi butt

This is extremely my esthetic, especially because I have green eyes and am terrified of LASIK, I need body horror wired mouse

Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"

I got “melancholy” 😑

Inner millennial or inner paladin?

I was actually pleasantly surprised by the sauce given my expectations but sometimes Emily and I lovingly disagree on sauce in general

A photo to expand on Emily’s photo in more detail, showing the full display of one of the many amazing sets of furniture at the Czech Cubism exhibition. All the textiles (some reproduced, some original) in this museum were just fantastic to the point where I need a deep dive on just those.

Mercy Diablo for me please, two packets should do it

Very happy I still have a week of vacation left, but I am starting to look forward to sitting down at a US restaurant again and being given my giant glass of free ice water 🧊🚰

Or that ruiner of any pay-by-the-pound gummy purchase, “oooo they have the GOOD gummy sharks”

As someone who regularly had a shopping list of Haribo and Katjes gummies for Emily to bring me back from Germany, this is a normal amount of $ for gummies but why did they go all in on bears? No worms? No cola bottles? No peachy penguins???

Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

Began my ~2 weeks of PTO abroad, and Day 1 was dedicated to catching up on sleep. I slept 11 hours, then my wife woke me up at 2pm to tell me she was going out to find coffee, and then I consciously decided to just pass back out until whenever she woke me for dinner. A perfect day 💯

Cardamom makes almost everything better. Homebrewed stout, yogurt that’s a little too sweet, rubs for smoked pork, the already perfect French toast recipe that @emily.gorcen.ski makes, cardamom is my BFF