Good morning. Hello. How are you? #1029
Are Fuji apples from Fuji? Buy Jenna's book, roof work, Swiftie thoughts, Jon Stewart should take his show to Twitter lol
Good morning! Hello! How are you? Happy Friday. I am swell. Recharge day at work, so no work. Also, I used up all my vacation days taking every other Friday off for the year, because I am bad about vacations. This one little hack, etc. etc. It is great. This is my second year. Strong recommend.
Jane did massive resistance to going to school again today, even though yesterday when Emma and MIL picked her up she said she had a great time, wasn’t going to complain today, didn’t think she needed to complain yesterday. But nope. Except this time, instead of spending an hour cajoling, we used firmness, got her dressed basically against her will, downstairs to breakfast, and after some silly dancing, pew pew pews, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift, we had her basically turned around. Only the most mild resistance at drop off. Seconds.
Walmart and recycling run this morning. Walmart radio was playing a track I liked that I did not know. Shoulda Shazaamed it, did not have that presence of mind at 8:15 in the morning. They had no caffeine-free Diet Mt Dew very sad.
Did a birthday Zoom yesterday for Jenna, happy birthday Jenna. Lots of people in Europe, time zones everywhere. One dude was on Reunion island, which is so cool. It was lovely to see her. Her book is getting a new, wide release, this week, so if you have not bought a copy of The Hours Before Dusk, pick one up! As a birthday present to her! It is Leonard Cohen’s The Spice Box of Earth meets Erica Jong. It’s awesome.
The roof got completely replaced in a single day. Really pretty amazing. Eleven dudes up there all day into the night. Supposed to rain today, so I guess they wanted to get it done. All pro. If you’re in the region and need a new roof, call Carolina Roofing. Ask for Brent, fellow Alaskan. Solar panels for the integrated roof won’t be here till January but now with the old roof off and the shingles on I can A) start moving the interior dryer vents and exhaust fan vents in the attic, and B) start interior attic electrical, which gets me one step closer to spray foam, which gets me one step closer to sealed attic and the big expenses will be over, thank god.
Also if you’re in the region and need a dumpster, Cross Roads Container, ask for Manny. Amazing company. Got a dumpster up my winding driveway.
Hey question for you all: are Fuji apples from Fuji? Cuz that is dumb and we should not ship apples from Fuji. Or is it just a name? Like the Fugees only more literate.
How do we feel about Taylor’s SNL cameo? I think I am not into it. I think it was probably fine for the boyfriend, whatever his name was, to make his little comedic appearance, and of course Ice Spice and Taylor are business development partners in the form of v2 of Karma (shoulda been v1). But it just makes Taylor and that-dude’s relationship also seem full-on BD, and not, like, a real thing, but of course everything Taylor does is probably BD, which is fine, but her genius is she makes us feel like it’s not. And I guess it was clever that it was so minimal, but it was no “where the hell are the singing cats.”
Also, yes, I am a huge Swiftie and moderately well-versed in the NFL but I do not care about this relationship. I’ve never especially cared about her relationships, they are a non-entity in my Swiftdom. I mean, if I had my druthers should would probably date Devendra Banhart or oh that guy from Phosphorescent I bet he could handle it. Maybe Father John Misty. I would say Phil Elverum but that man has suffered enough and clearly fame dating and he do not agree. But honestly, I just don’t especially care who she dates. Tina Fey and calls her “mommy.” That could work for me.
So Jon Stewart’s Apple show, which I have not watched, is getting cancelled by Apple because it was going to say mean things about China and we absolutely cannot have that. I am somewhat stunned by this. I mean, it’s funny. I made a bet with my friend Rex about Elon Musk and Twitter and him getting fucked by China within months of owning Twitter, because I still thought that guy was a “maverick” and not sad and thirsty and it never occurred to me that he would just… bend over backwards and keep China happy by being a censor or whatever. And of course Apple, the world’s most powerful company, and Tim Apple, the world’s most powerful businessman, had already bent over backward (or forward) for China, so I guess I am not surprised about this, but, man. That is depressing. I mean, I get it. I find myself self-censoring all the time about certain things and it sucks and I hate it but of course that is life and reality and I am a grown up but… well I wouldn’t say it’s disappointing because I was already disappointed, but I would say it sucks.
Jon is in a good position here, though. He should pull a Tucker Carlson (just this once, obvi) and air the China episode of The Problem with Jon Stewart on Twitter, so then Elon can get fucked over by China or be so obviously a patsy that everyone can have a good laugh. Check. A win either way.
Man that is a great idea. Always nice to have your one good idea before ten in the morning.
That idea is even better than my idea for a new startup I had last night: Darner.com: the sock darning company where you drop your socks in an envelope and send them to Darner.com and they sew up the holes and send them back.
What a simultaneously stupid and great startup idea.
Okay that’s it for today I gotta do some pool company invoicing and finances and I gotta work with the crew in the yeard to build the greenhouse. Today is the day! Well, it’s the day we start. Maybe not finish. Hopefully this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Justa mix for you today, mostly new with some golden oldies. Been into Deep again this week, and Moonshake/Laika. And that Working Man’s Club song came on in the car this morning and man, it sounded just great. Just great.
All right wish me luck on this greenhouse construction. Hopefully it will come to its full goth fruition this weekend! And have a lovely weekend. Ta.
i asked myself that fuji apple question not long ago because i love that varietal and felt bad if they were coming from fuji. they are from japan but grow on the west and east coasts here :)
as for the Taylor cameo, apparently it wasn’t planned? i thought it was silly. i also found the flashing lights during both of Ice Spice’s performances painful on the eyes and didn’t it seem like she was lip syncing? the media around taylor and travis is TOO much and their relationship feels like it’s all photo ops 🙄