We still need our coffee date! ☕️

I still need to mail you your present, I’m sorryyyyyyyy. Happy birthday!

Hell, you know this. But still, I think about love & trust.

"Grandma, when you were my age, did a teacher ever try to… get you alone? I mean… did one ever try to… touch you?"

<TOS violation detected>

What were you expecting to take to the grave? What could an algorithm never extrapolate for them?

"What if—?" You can't. "But what if—?" You CAN'T. "…But will you accept this substitute and pretend?"

…

I'm haunted by the idea that someone will ask it advice.

"Oh love," I ask the photo in the locket, "what would you do?"

"Calculating," says some algorithm wearing love's face.

I love you so dearly

And I’ve noticed the sound quality on YT music is far superior to Spotify

Thank you! I have enjoyed Spotify for the discovery aspect, and playlists, but my BIL also uses YT for playlists so I’m looking into that too

If you don’t mind, please say more? I am looking to get off Spotify

Here’s our little foster buddy:

Yep, mine stung!

For sure. My rain coat has a hood with a pretty firm brim that I was able to wear under my helmet in a way that shielded my eyes pretty well. Never occurred to me to look for something better! 😂

Back when I had a work commute, I commuted by bike and always loved the rainy rides :)

Speaking of beautifully rendered sea things: here is a tuna by the same artist. The only thing stopping me from getting a tattoo of it is that I don’t know where to put it yet.

Overall, he is finding more and more ways to relax and he looks like he genuinely feels pleasant most of the time, but is still stressed when he has to interact with us at mealtimes. Slow progress is still progress. 🩶

He also thinks behind the bathrobe is for relaxing:

He’s also learning the human bed is for relaxing: