Ughhh, our kid wanted the AI app too. We eventually were able to explain to her that AI isn’t safe enough technology for kids yet, but it took some convincing. The podcast was okay, as far as I could hear, but I’m not trusting those “guardrails”

I’m fairly confident that two of mine are just fancy names for sociology major graduation requirements. I think it was actually “social movements and social change” an that “class status and power” was a fancy name for what is elsewhere called “sociological stratification”

My favorite organizational method before this move included putting my favorite things to recommend to clients right behind me so I could reach them easiest. That wasn’t exactly “best to worst” but it felt really functional.

I’m so uncomfortable every time a thread gets “just go to my denomination, we’re great!” because everything depends on which congregation’s doors you end up walking through. (And I hear my denomination, the UMC, touted as affirming, progressive when we only just got to neutral polity officially)

One down, many to go. And shhh, the girls are playing with their dolls and bedtime starts in 10.

When my cat came on the drive from shoreline to Canada, he cried for a bit and then was pretty silent the whole rest of the way. I read up about it before and was so worried he’d be hungry or want to walk around, but he was cozy in there, and really did well

I think cats kind of dissociate for long drives and maybe having another cat in there makes it harder to zone all the way out.

(And then I found the one with the vibes-based theology that may violate the Discipline)

I just went to look at what might have inspired this and the latest two posts were my dad and my godfather, respectively. 🤦🏻‍♀️ (Then a few of the randomly reposted blog and “inspirational” posts that typically don’t get much purchase)

In the BC version, the goose and picker run opposite ways around the circle, *racing* each other to the open spot, but there’s no tagging.

Okay, so: in the version that both kiddo and I learned in western WA, 30+ years apart, when the goose is picked the goose chases the picker around the circle and tries to catch them before the picker gets back to the open spot.

It’s also, like, eerily gorgeous here in the mornings, with fog lifting and wildfires making the sun pink.

Update: and our first day up here, we secured a full time spot starting in September at a daycare center for the toddler!

Actually, I didn’t even think to expect it, but I got my work laptop replaced today, too, all of a sudden!

Next up: that package that’s supposed to come Thursday 😅

Like, my usually-takes-a-week Rx refill came through in like 4 hours yesterday, the 4-6wks to get copies of our updated car titles was 3 weeks, and the “probably still waiting a month or so” PR application next step came this morning. So…we’re doing okay.

Every time someone uses the lacrymosa as background sounds on TikTok I just keep singing it for like five minutes.