In the past 24 hours I was sworn at and insulted by by two separate people.  Just in textual form, by near-strangers, no relationship at risk, nothing at stake for me.  I'd momentarily appreciate how much I have internalized "their words and expressions have no bearing on

Last night (Wednesday? Yup. Days are still meaningless) I popped in (virtually, of course) for an Authentic Relating games night with the local Authentic Seattle [https://www.facebook.com/groups/991979727556923/] group.  In just the introductions, there was a moderate kerfuffle when someone tossed out a likely putdown towards "

My phone had "broken" - the bottom speaker made a terrible static/garbage sound whenever an app enabled media playback.  (Phone calls worked alright, those just play out the top speaker.)  I assumed that a hardware connection had broken, and that the speaker was toast. Ordered new phone.

The dishwasher drain hose will take a week to arrive.  So... I duct-taped the old one and reinstalled it.  No drips after two loads.  Whew, that reduces labor. The async/await code fell into harmony about 15 minutes after my last post.  Well, aside from why console.log on a

Dishwasher update: Two flow hoses replaced. Tech leaves. Notice a leak underneath the sink.  Drain hose has sprung a leak, spraying water until I cover it with my finger.  Four days and $400 into this narrative... I felt a bit absurdist at that moment. But not quite enough to actually

Scavenger hunt to find their Easter baskets, up and down about 12 flights of stairs Bunny crackers in some of the plastic easter eggs in their breakfast bowls Picture-in-picture video church, pastors in suits, robes, and bunny costumes Delivery from Mod Pizza, reheated a bit, eating out of boxes Dying

Our North Crown Hill neighborhood has a scattering of folks who don't "do" internet - yet some of them may be the folks most in need of assistance in crisis times.  So, I'm setting up a phone hotline that folks can call, and connect

Our dishwasher started spilling water on the floor yesterday.  My phone malfunctioned a few days ago - it now makes a hissing noise whenever the speaker is enabled, even if the volume is off.  My car battery died a few weeks ago, and I haven't jumped it yet

Tuesday.  I guess.  I didn't check my work email today, for I think the first workday in 5 off.  I helped a kid through a class meetup on Zoom, got a Tableau viz to work inside a SSR'ed SPA by uninstalling the react/node modules and

Staying at home in a family of five has had some nice moments, and some hard ones, but overall I'd call it an intensifier.  Whatever's there, there's more of it, without many breaks or diversions.  After cleaning up five potty accidents, handling a couple

64 houses knocked, in 2.5 hours, today was my longest canvassing session by about +40%.  ~280 total knocks takes me to about 75% of the neighborhood.  Soon I'll finish the big sweeps up and down blocks, and move to targeted outreach for the remainder. Decided in the

Netlify support picked up my case after a couple days of pings, and now we're live here at www.bakejam.com!  I notice that I'm more excited, and more grateful, now than if they had just knocked it out in 10 minutes when I first contacted

A bit frustrated that bakejam.com does not yet point to this content.  Registered the domain using Netlify before deciding to point it to hosted Ghost, and the "automatic" DNS configuration means I'm stuck waiting for support to delete the "system managed" records, even

I just deleted three half-sentences. And now I'm not going to do that anymore. Hah. Consider this a journal entry - it's for me, more than you. But you're welcome in this space! My two goals are self-awareness and connection (other-awareness), for me and