Good morning. Hello. How are you? #1161
Headache, Anja Huwe, Whataburger, Golden Cicadas, crappy changes to the Youtube AppleTV app, the new Prius, Jane schooled me
Good morning. Hello. How are you? Number one one six one. Wow. What a world. Got a raging headache this morning, most unpleasant. Slight Zepbound nausea. Also unpleasant. A+ start to the day. Jane went to school no problem, though, even though she stayed up more than an hour late last night just pouting that, I don’t know, mommy wouldn’t, like, stay right next to her forever or something, it was not actually clear what the ask was. But she managed.
Except she hid her library book and “didn’t want to talk about it,” because apparently she likes it and doesn’t want to give it back? I am unclear on what the penalty is for such a transgression I assume the cops will be here any moment.
I am listening to Anja Huwe’s solo album this morning. Third listen. She was in Xmal Deutschland back in the day. It is gothy and a little… um… we’ll say European. I was thinking about that vibe this morning, actually. Thinking about these artists that are sorta goth, sorta alternative, sorta new wave but also sorta… classical? Folk? I was specifically thinking of Jane Siberry and Clannad, both of whom I saw at the Somerville Theater back in the day. Not together, mind, just both at the same venue. Anyway, this Anja Huwe album has a bit of that vibe.
Nick this is for you I bet you can’t wait:
Oh hey! The GOLDEN BROOD, Brood 19 of the Cicadas has begun. Look at this thing! Emma found this one in the yard this weekend.
This is gonna be nuts. Cicadas are so nuts. Just the weirdest things.
I do not have a picture of it but I have decided that the best looking car on the road is the new Prius. Is this weird of me? It looks so good! I just saw one this morning again, there is a white one living somewhere not far for me, and man, I love that thing. is there a plug-in hybrid version? Ooo there is. The Prius Prime. Exciting. I mean seriously, it looks great in photos or on Youtube or whatever and then you see one in person and you’re like “wow what is that?”
If I ever move back near a city where I don’t have five acres of chores and need a truck, I would totally buy a PRIUS PRIME.
(“Five acres of chores”is a great turn of phrase, and also its a riff on “five acres of turnips,” a great country tune by the lady country supergroup Pistol Annies).
This drawing below is an accurate representation of the shirt Jane was wearing that day and an accurate representation of the ball she was playing with and the floor and I love it so much. She can’t draw hands any better than an AI, but at least they have the right number of fingers. More or less. Man I lvoe this drawing. Note the two shades of purple, subtly criticizing her father’s dressing of her and not matching her pants to her socks.
Wow I am all over the place today well I suppose I will go ahead and bitch about the new Youtube Apple TV app then. First, it’s now doing that fake screensaver thing when you pause, thus messing up the auto-shutoff on the Apple TV and showing me weird-ass stills from the videos I am watching. I pay for YouTube, so this is not a precursor for ads for me, but if you don’t pay, get ready to have ads on that screen, that’ll be annoying. But the thing that really sucks is now when you watch a video, then you menu out to go back to your subscriptions queue, they take you back to the top of the queue, which is so annoying when you are working your way backward in your subscriptions. Last night it got to the point where I had to click the down button thirty times or more, after every single video just to get back to my place in line. How is this a change that a product manager approved? Or did they not even notice? I mean, I cannot say my company has the most robust and amazing QA department, but, you know, we are small and poor and not… Youtube, which makes (checks notes) thirty-one billion dollars last year.
It is sad when you are hoping something is a bug, bug man, I hope this is a bug and it gets fixed.
I forgot to tell you about a thing that happened the other night. After Daddy school, Jane and I got to do a dance party for the first time in ages, it was great. We stuck to her old favorites, Blackpink and Taylor, but still, it was nice to dance again. Then during the dance party she started throwing the pink blanket on the floor and asking what country or state the shape looked like. And she was really good at it! She absolutely nailed a blanket shape that looked like Idaho I was very impressed. Then we had this blob blanket shape and I was sort of going around it, looking at it from different angles, and eventually the best I could come up with was the Central Afrtican Republic.
And then Jane just looked at the shape, looked at me and totally schooled me.
“Daddy, it looks like Australia.”
And she was totally right.
All right, well I really phoned this one in I am sorry. My head is killing me. Here have a playlist. Not sure what the deal is with this ior band but I love them even if they only have three songs on Spotify and are maybe fake. Still grooving on the new And Also the Trees. Haven’t given the entire St. Vincent a listen yet but enjoy the singles. Love the new James.
I hope you have a lovely Tuesday and get the closure you need about that issue that has been lingeringly worrying you oh man maybe I’ll end all of these with fortune cookie quotes from here on out or something.
abysmal UX from YouTube. hope the feature gets sorted in the app soon. if i were a product manager at YouTube shit like that would never happen! 😁