sameold.blog

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:16:03 -0700

It’s pretty shocking how many children’s toys that are being sold in normal stores are just loot boxes now, basically. I don’t want my kids to start gambling before they start elementary school.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:06:24 -0700

Finished reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 📚 I read all four books, 1500 pages of this at a breakneck pace. I think I’m going to actually need to reread it since it left me with a lot to think about, but the (spoiler, I guess?) really sad ending has slowed down this ambition some.

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:42:29 -0700

It sucks it’s so hard to convince people to switch to Signal because even ignoring the privacy angle (which I’ve mostly negated by installing it on all my devices) it’s the best messaging app by far IMO. I wish everybody would text me on there

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:47:46 -0700

Yesterday I got this little camera to take along to the family vacation. I actually forgot to take any pictures with my phone on day one!

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:54:00 -0700

Switching from Proton Mail to Fastmail mostly because of their right wing-associate scandal(s), but migrating emails out of their system is so obnoxious it definitely reinforced the grudge (imagine if I’d been using them for more than six months!)

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:09:08 -0700

Reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure by Matt Dinniman 📚 My dislike of this genre was instant and visceral but I’m trying to push through it. Maybe I’ll come to like it. I’d probably enjoy the writing if it were really a game!

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:51:41 -0700

I can’t stop buying my daughter those super cute seasonal dresses they sell at Costco for like $12

Thu, 28 May 2026 16:13:11 -0700

The two kinds of non-endorsement

Wed, 27 May 2026 21:38:37 -0700

I think I won my war on Plex today. I’ve had to move my server twice and it was not a fun experience either time!

Tue, 26 May 2026 12:04:45 -0700

My daughter is very exceptionally “knitworthy”, not only does she make requests but lately they’ve been for things I made her last year that she’s worn religiously and now she’s grown out of.

Mon, 25 May 2026 16:05:33 -0700

I just closed up my PC after hours trying to get a new HDD installed (it’s a CyberPower case with all these rainbow lights and it was horrible inside) and IT WORKS. I can hardly believe I’ve succeeded here. I’ve never done anything like this before!

Mon, 25 May 2026 09:05:07 -0700

I’ve been having my daughter help repair our Plex server, and she understands we can’t watch certain things until the work is done, which I think is a good lesson. Maybe?

Sun, 24 May 2026 15:45:21 -0700

Our computer repair attempts were not successful today (I’m missing a data cable I need to pick up tomorrow) but we all had fun 📷

Sat, 23 May 2026 20:28:23 -0700

My favorite pictures so far taken with the #MuditaKompakt 📷

Fri, 22 May 2026 11:32:01 -0700

I am on a post on /r/nanny where a parent is saying she’d forbid her nanny to take their kid to Target or any big box store because “anything could happen”. She specifies it’s trafficking that she is worried about. I feel like a superhumanly chill parent just because I don’t use Instagram or TikTok.

Fri, 22 May 2026 09:20:05 -0700

Finished reading: Circle of Days by Ken Follett 📚 This was fun! You can get through it in a day or two and it feels like watching a movie.

Thu, 21 May 2026 17:08:24 -0700

It feels like the honeymoon period is over on my ICL surgery. Now I’m kind of annoyed by the minor lingering eye discomfort, and (this might be a personality issue) wracked by paranoia that every twinge is indication that I’m going to have to take them out, like a Flowers for Algernon situation

Thu, 21 May 2026 13:12:52 -0700

🧶 I’m so close to closing up this monster of a #musselburgh hat. I’ve been knitting it since last August with no idea if it’ll fit! But all my hats have been too small for my brother and I’m not taking chances. (He lives in AZ so we can’t check until June. I might be able to felt and shrink it.)

Tue, 19 May 2026 12:22:19 -0700

Last weekend I touched grass so hard it made the news (I briefly appeared in the introduction to a local segment).

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:43:37 -0700

Staying off social media might become a kind of self-reinforcing habit because the kind of random aggression you encounter routinely on the Internet is extremely not normal when you’re more calibrated for offline interactions

Thu, 14 May 2026 13:18:45 -0700

One thing I am grateful for is I was extra sure not to be smug when I was the parent of only one single baby, because those parents can be as bad or even worse as the “when I have kids” crowd. Oh “it’s not that hard”? Yeah, I bet it isn’t!

Wed, 13 May 2026 15:54:54 -0700

Hot off the needles, these baby socks took me an absurd amount of time, like six months. They still fit him though! 🧶

Wed, 13 May 2026 09:27:26 -0700

I will never understand Gavin Newsom’s (lack of?) political instincts.

Tue, 12 May 2026 19:54:54 -0700

Watching: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 🍿 Going through these movies with our oldest kid is really forcing us to confront how bad they were

Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:46 -0700

Reading on Micro.blog definitely makes me rethink my habits of “engaging” with a post via like or RT.