mike susz

my wife baked apple pies this morning and i made chex mix this afternoon so our house is smelling festive as heck

a photo of the sunset from my house on september 16th.

nice one tonight.

now is the time of year where i will become unreasonably angry at trees.

(no, not like Spring. i have very valid reasons to be angry at them in the Spring).

tonight I sat out on my patio in an Adirondack chair, watching for shooting stars from various meteor showers and I saw a few of them and my family who joined me later saw a few also, and this was absolutely amazing

that thing where you pick up your coffee cup, find that is already empty, and look at it like is has betrayed you.

the export gives you a csv of everything you saved, both unread and archived.

a photo of a starbucks cup that says “that first sip feeling”

actually Starbucks, “that first sip feeling” is pain. the fiery burning pain as if you handed me a cup of molten lava and it just immolated my tongue and the roof of my mouth.

the burning hot fire of a thousand suns.

plus nuttiness and a hint of caramel

since i hurt my back, i’m not able to go to PAX East this year. but i am excited that my wife got to take the kids, this will be her first time attending!

don’t get too excited, but today i’ve spent some time going back to old crosswords (from before i subscribed) in apple news so i can do more crosswords

that thing where it’s like seeing the same cat twice in The Matrix except it’s that some apps on your phone are in different places

i'm trying to get better with checking in here, but honestly without a client that remembers where you left off (why does the native client not do that?) it's tough to get traction. looks like tapbots is working on it, though!

sometimes I say dumb things and I don’t know why. Example: “should I make more coffee?”

things keep happening so quickly it's difficult to keep up with what to be terrified about

i try to hide how difficult life is from my kids.

but sometimes…

sometimes i slip.

when i got my first iPhone (4s? i think) i made ringtones of the Super Mario Bros 2 overworld theme and underworld themes. complete with the “time running out” speed-up at the end. i still use them.

new year, decided to procure a replacement computer for work (to replace my 2019 intel macbook pro) and they sent me a 2021 m1 mbp. not bad, glad to be on apple silicon, and haven’t heard a cooling fan yet.

no time to set it up though as several “challenged” projects are vying for my help. sigh.

the road thing - i swear this is what chipmunks do with acorns in my backyard. i’ve been stepping on (and cracking open) acorns that are nowhere near an oak tree.

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congrats for getting it down to two hours. my current editing process is measured in months.

wait you have to win a popularity contest before you’re willing to make a principled decision? sounds like you should stay on twitter.

my family arrived home expecting that i had recorded a hip-hop cover of a blink-182 song. i had to explain - no - while they were out, i was planning to _wrap_ All The Small Things.

a photo of “Old Man” Marley from the Home Alone movie.

this morning i took my bucket of salt & sand to spread on a part of our cul-de-sac that’s always in the shade and currently glare ice. and i realized, my transformation is complete.

a photo of my new M4pro mac mini on top of my old M1 mac mini.

big upgrade today. er, small upgrade today.

…significant upgrade today.

if you’re the kind of person who compares your own physical conditioning to the other people at the gym, and maybe feel bad about yourself - good news.

today i set the bar really low for you.

real, real low.

and “homeowner monetary units” are multiples of 3000 or 5000 dollars.

a photo of a ton of pellets stacked in my garage.

moved a ton of stuff today.

2hr delay for school here tomorrow, aka i do not have to wake up at 6am.

i might have to deal with snow removal several times throughout the morning, however.

just wait until our next president pardons people who literally smeared feces on the walls of congress.

last day of 4 days off. i haven’t had 4 days off in a row since last christmas. looking forward to all my vaca time in december, and vowing (once again) to use it more throughout the year in 2025.

my thanksgiving trip with the boys fell through and we’re home and joined in my wife’s plan to get cook-at-home thanksgiving dinner from the local bbq smokehouse and my goodness we’re eating smoked turkey all weekend and taking naps (okay i’m the only one napping because they’re not smart enough)