phooky @phooky@octodon.social

Scrolling through my history to find the point at which toddlers started pounding on my keyboard

Putting the plague terminal on the kitchen counter has given me more opportunities to journal, and a chance to stop and smell the onions.

it's great to see all the anarchists banding together to protect their communities from a lack of pissing matches on mastodon

writing a bash script that handles function keys requires *research*, and that is fundamentally fucked up

"dialog" is the goofiest command-line tool, change my mind

But really, isn't every book an "I-CAN-READ" book?

He's ready

A Prodigy song came on the radio and my 3yo said "no, that's Grandma music." He's not wrong

In case you're wondering how COVID-19 testing in NYC is going, my spouse got tested last Monday and her results are still not in. (Granted her symptoms are mild and she is not in a risk group, so she's probably rightly at the back of the queue.)

no i will not be showing him the music video because i do not want him urinating in his pants for the next twelve years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZeJr5ppm8

my 3yo is now obsessed with aldous harding's "the barrel" and wants me to sing it to him and i have no ideas what the lyrics actually are and even if i did it's not like it's going to make sense

*making pancakes for the kids*
let's do a smiley face on this one
*adds five chocolate chips*
hmmm
*adds another two chocolate chips*
resolution insufficient
*adds more chocolate chips*
*serves lopsided slab of chocolate*
look it's happy

I think something that's going to become blindingly clear in the coming months that is being blithely ignored now is that sars-cov-2 hangs around for way, way more than 14 days.

Entering week 3 of isolation, my 3yo spontaneously builds an enclosed structure with no doors or windows

Quentin is about all that's keeping me sane right now.
https://youtu.be/MtYknj_j70g