Paul ✨ @pts@octodon.social

Talking to some friends elsewhere about my plans to play video games most of the weekend and they're like, lucky you, we can't play video games ever since having kids, and I'm like,

buddy,

Good morning I am freaked out on a personal and global level but really I just need to get some dang work done.

I'm very proud of this. Glitch and Airtable are wonderful tools, but I still had to brush WAY up on Javascript, and learn some basic Node and Jquery. It's nothing fancy but it will hopefully be a useful tool for writers who've submitted to my little zine.

https://sockdolager.glitch.me/

Buying better plates last year was a VERY good idea.

This'll play better here anyway.

THE RINK IS OPEN AGAIN AND ITS SEVENTY DEGREES OUT,

Time to be an outside-goer

This morning as previously intimated I woke up feeling real bad! Then I checked my email, and I saw that I'd gotten a short but very nice comment on a piece of silly, sentimental fan fiction I wrote years ago.

I will be god damned if it didn't cheer me up CONSIDERABLY.

Wake up feelin like shame garbage

I am struck not infrequently by the bafflingly unlikely fact of my career and employment. I have precisely the job I dreamed in high school of having, to an uncanny degree of specificity.

There are maybe 20? 30? people with this job in the entire country. Like—why me?

"Maybe you're good at it and you work hard," a small, optimistic part of me suggests.

Heh, I chuckle. Let's not be fanciful, now.

hey want to hear what i'm doing this morning

u guessed it, more dishes

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Hell with it, I'm bringing back my old Livejournal user icon—the twin suns of Tatooine, with the bungo (i.e., super old-timey Japanese) caption: 今は昔、ある遥かなる銀河系にて which translates to "In a time long past, in a certain distant galaxy..."

Today before I do the dishes that I VERY don't want to do, I would like to share with you a thing that everybody should read.

It is fan fiction about Anthony Bourdain in Narnia, and it is fucking great.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/137185

Had to actually beg people to stop "answering" the question, I felt like such a fucking chump

Remember that time I asked Ask Metafilter how to form meaningful relationships with children even though I don't have any of my own and everyone called me a gross weirdo

Because buddy, I sure do

I'm not tipsy enough to post everything in names_for_children.txt, but I will say that it includes "Luke" and "Miriam."

lol no I'm not sad, what're you talking about

I did it, I made popcorn

What if....I made some popcorn to have with this beer

Fuck!!!!! I just remembered I bought beer yesterday! There is beer in the refrigerator RIGHT!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello, my friend Jeremy makes very good videos about making very good music. Here is one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7tve-b5Vg