Urso is still remembered in the LGBTQ square dance community for the brilliant logo work he performed for the IAGSDC History Project, All Join Hands Foundation, and two of our conventions.
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Beatles
Stones
Beach Boys
Manhattan Transfer
Our family feels that love is not best professed by a single holiday such as Valentine’s Day, but by the loving acts of service we perform for each other on a daily basis.
(And restaurant service is always worst on VD, so we go out for dinner a few days after.)
That is correct.
As long as I’m ranting mildly on the topic of generative AI…
youtu.be/CsQtUSTSX40?...
That’s how I’m interpreting it. “AI; don’t read.”
I am adopting this abbreviation into my online vocabulary immediately.
As a furry ally, I rather liked this, which was written from a mainstream point of view.
slate.com/advice/2026/...
My Apple Watch was charging slowly and erratically.
I power-cycled it, updated it to the most current WatchOS, and now it’s charging speedily once again.
Sometimes the most hackneyed fixes (“reboot it and apply updates”) are hyped repeatedly because more often than not, they actually DO work.
Between my impending retirement and current news, I'm rethinking some of my personal tech choices.
Today, I set up a paid Proton account. I'll start the email migration from Gmail shortly. (Post-retirement M365 work calendar will follow.)
I'm not feeling trustful of Silicon Valley right now.
I’m sure I’m late late late to the party on this, but I found this to be pretty amazing.
Also highly intriguing to see how the results vary from series to series.
trekkiefeminist.com/category/bec...
"The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender."
— G’Kar, Babylon 5.
The simple recipes usually are. Thank you for letting me know!
Our version of NYT Cooking’s Carrot Tart with Ricotta and Feta.
It was a nice way to break in the Cuisinart 11-Cup food processor @lljsky.bsky.social gave me for my birthday earlier in the month.
It’s not a difficult or fussy recipe, it just takes organized prep and cook time.
You are welcome to all of the empty cardboard boxes that we discard.
[shrugs] It was more expensive than doing it myself. DM me and I'll tell you how much I paid.
Each area's franchise sets their own fees. If you call them, they'll give you a quote (1/4, 1/2, 3/4, full truckloads).
IYKYK…and you do, obviously. :)
We used the Got Junk people half a dozen times (no…really!) just before we moved from Sunnyvale to Sacramento.
Today we used them again here in Sac to remove old furniture, clothing, shoes, old paint and dead monitors and batteries.
I feel like singing “Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life.”
Oh, dear…I may be at this all day.
(Bought.)
OH MY GOD THEY DID
We evidently share a sense of humor. Our respective partners should be very, very afraid right about now.
And sometimes, looking out the (virtual) window at all of the craziness, all I really want to do is think about how great our dinner of Costco ready-to-bake salmon, air-fried rainbow carrots, and brown rice/quinoa with sautéed almonds was tonight. (Randy didn’t even put bacon salt on anything!)
Best dad joke of the week (thus far):
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I asked the librarian if they had books on paranoia.
She whispered, “They’re right behind you."
In a "normal" political environment, this story wouldn't raise a lot of eyebrows. In the current (abnormal) political environment, however, this is a big deal.
www.metroweekly.com/2025/12/cons...
I spend a slowly increasing amount of time staring at this every week.
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