just a little goblin, enjoying the little things in life
I once mentioned Gooseberry getting really into milk & cereal ; since she's into it, that of course has led to Snapdragon getting very into it. This is deeply engaging for me: I love that a) they like this horriblegross way to eat cereal and b) Snap is really finetuning her spoon skills with this. Seeing her use her little chubby toddler hands to drive a spoon and stuff her chubby todler face with…
We got some bacon ends that slice up real nice into little bitesize bits; it just Made Sense to toss them in with pesto from our basil
... huh . I think i just got automatic outgoing webmentions working. I was reading more about webmention.app and looking at how one might leverage a webhook to use it... but couldn't help noticing the command line version uses node.js--you install it with npm install and call it likewise with npx. D'you know what else uses node.js? 11ty . D'you know what I use to run it? a github action,,, Way…
I don't think we made any maqloubeh last year, which is a shame. I wanna say I pulled this particular recipe from the cookbook Zaitoun, and its version uses eggplant, tomato, and peppers on the bottom of the pan; we usually grow these, so we have a nice summer treat when they're all available just outside in the garden. Last year, our eggplant didn't do great, and this year they did super…
sometimes you realize your kid is only five and thus: thinks farts are Ultra Funny has never heard of a whoopee cushion So you describe one and it instantly achieves mythical status; a tool to dream of and to ask for as a gift and to imagine how so so so funny it would be to sit on one or trick someone to sit on one
it is Not Just Me who is so into big walk rn: "daddy!! watch me be like Big Walk!" *jumps forward to faceplant into the couch, ramrod straight; planks for bit* "...I left the game." * eyes closed, slightly hunched forward, arms pumping in little circles* "I typed a message! it says, 'let's go get icecream'" and also this! check this out!! Gooseberry has also tried to play a little. She is Not At…
I've set up my website to be properly(?) tagged for microformats. I get to put another post under my good friend the tags devlog & changelog, and you... can't really see a difference. Unless you drop a post link on another service, maybe? Hopefully what I did will: make embeds prettier elsewhere allow me to take advantage of webmentioning websites whose authors have configured them to recieve…
Big Walk rules. I would like to continue to walk around this nice little island and explore and fall and poke and prod and joke and josh and point and flail and find new ways to communicate. The creatures are so expressive, and the controls are Nice [1] and it is not hard to gesture and point and play and have a jolly time. I love how their eyeballs spin when they fall and turn to squares when in…
It's tomato season, lettuce has been planned and grown to align: it's BLT season baybee We didn't have a ton of bread on hand, but we did have a tin of pop-the-tube biscuits in the fridge so we used those. I think I prefer toast to carry my BLT but there was something quite winsome about the toothsome give of a biscuit. Including the jam these are 3/6 from home. I think I have done 3/5 before with…
Kids! They're great. I keep being astounded by mine. Seeing them grow and develop and what happens when and comparing that is just marvelous. I've understood this a little in the past--be it from childcare type gigs or being a decade + older than some of my siblings--but it really does hit different when you're the primary caregiver, there at midnight and noon, walking along for every possible…
I love eels. The other year (or six probably) Em and I listened to The Book of Eels by Patrick Svensson (translated by Agnes Broomé) on a roadtrip and it super mega cemented that love. Great trip, great book, great combo. that's all this post is. Eels is Good, that book is good. Eels!
I don't know that we biked at all last year. This is odd because biking is one of our Things. When we were dating + or first couple years of marriage we lived in a rather bike-positive town by US standards, in a state that features an annual bike touring event where you start with your back tire dipped in one river-what-marks-the-border and bike until you cross the whole state to dip your front…
Something has Clicked and now Gooseberry is choosing colors for art. The other day she was in a coloring book (already a rare event--she seems to dislike how much effort covering large blocks with color takes) carefully making every Disney princess have the right hair, eye, and dress color. I'm sitting here now looking over as she draws, swapping out to blue for eyes to match hers or playing with…
Snap, pushing an empty stroller, peeking into my office: "hi daddy!" *pointing off to the side* "marggy! [1] " *wooshing rushing sounds as she violently wiggles and tips the stroller* "ohhh, did you go too fast and she fell out?" "mmhmm! crash!" margaret tiger from daniel tiger ↩︎
things like, "Yeah, yesterday we were at the formerly-a-swedish-fully-and-completely-communist-religious-commune town for their annual ABBA cover band concert", which is just forever something that will tickle so many parts of my brain. And then I also get to think about how the place disolved after their leader got murdered by the husband of his ward after the husband tried multiple times to…
Snapdragon, laying down, playing with a stuffed unicorn: *whooshing, flying noises* *sudden pivot* "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" *pause* "SPLASH!" she's only 18 months and tellin' stories
We went camping! And also cabining! We went up to the straits of Mackinac for a high quality outdoortime campventure. We found fossils, saw a cannon demonstration, visited a island and walked further than little legs go, and had a great time. Since our end destination was quite a distance, we broke up our driving into two ~4 hour days. That's about the maximum we can get without major…
it's my birthday! The last couple of years I have been asking for little doodles. They do not have to be good-- shouldn't be good maybe even. Just something little to enjoy as both a practice and a sharing. If you feel inspired, please scribble something and send it to my email, triangularart [at] gmail [dot] com (or discord or text or carrier pigeon or) This year I would love to see creatures…
it's my dynamic duo, my classic combo, my pb&j. Cookin' curry and 2mello's Portable Headphone Dancefloor p h d
my little baby, 18 months old and running fast,,, but wait, she needs to go faster! Hurry! Arms back! as fast as Sonic! it's entirely instinctual. it's the funniest thing. When she wants to go fast, the ninja run comes out
I've been meditating for the last long while on what makes a project Good or Bad. What makes a project feel smooth or bumpy, stressful or pleasant? Drawn out or too short? There's a happy point where expectations are met, the process goes smoothly, and you walk away ready to do more because you know more. This is different from when you cast off and you go "yup, another one for the pile [of…
The most recent Cooks Illustrated at the library had some arresting photos of popscicles. One was strawberry, and of course Ultra Interesting to a certain individual. I love making popsicles, but don't really like eating them--they're never the right texture or melt too fast or too slow or are Wrong. I'll always try a new kind, tho, and strawberry paletas seemed quick and easy: strawbs, sugar,…
Saturday was a powerful day; I hung a door and got S3S working again door As I mentioned back in [/routing] we're rearranging house. Our new bedroom has a funky semi-arched doorway of odd dimensions. Cutting it out, framing a door, and determining how we were going to deal with the faux paneling both rooms have was highly unappetizing with our current bandwidth and I harbor a secret love for all…
me, trying to get a very distracted girl ready for bed: "hey, no more distractions 'tll these jammies are on and you're in bed; then you can be as distracted as you want" Gooseberry as soon as her butt touches her bed/as she swings her legs in: (in an exaggeratedly confused voice) "hey??? what's going on here? where am I?? what was I doing?"
Hey. Wait. wait wait waitaminute. If there's a guy behind David Bowie being his arms in the Labrynth, how is that really much different than how the Swedish Chef is operated. Is David Bowie also a muppet in the Labrynth? Or at least close enough?
Em directs the highschooler choir for the group Gooseberry's Littles choir is a part of. Sometime this semester she got hooked up with the local minor league team and signed up to sing the national anthem to open one of their games; not wanting to leave anyone out of such an important cultural opportunity they all decided it should be all the agegrouped choirs doing this as one megachoir, of…
this is actually just a iframe repost . I used my immersion blender today and went hell yea
Sometime last weekend Snapdragon suddenly put everything together, realized she could stand up without a support or assist, and has begun walking freely. Since then she has not let her knees scrape the floor; crawling is over . She is, of course, falling all over the place. But she can get up and try again and is getting more and more stable; at this point she's tripping more than wobbling when…
guy who has the ability to make blades of sheer willpower that rival the finest swords and just uses it to have one less thing to wash when cooking This is in a lot of ways related to this pair of Magnolia Siddell blueskyposts but also not because: Same Hat Magnolia. Same Hat. Hunter X Hunter is incredible and I'm always thinking about all the weird-yet-normcore ways one could use nen. It's an…
So baby Snap is, of course, a baby. And therefore talks like one--dada and mama and həp (help or [h]up or both) and doll and see! and olivyew [1] and cetera and cetera, getting more and more complex as she explores her tongue. This evolution has brought her a recent commitment to dadeee instead of dada which is very good. She likes this new daddy trick so very much that she'll just walk around…
I pretty much exclusively use longtail cast on. It has The Perfect Start when not resorting to a slip knot [1] , it's extremely swift with just a little practice, and when tensioned correctly, it's reasonably stretchy. Tensioning correctly is all about how far apart the stitches are formed on the needle--using two needles only forms the first row too large, not the part that actually matters for…
We're rearranging out entire house. With two girls, the room that has been the babybedroom is getting too small [1] , so we're taking it as an opportunity to make everything a little nicer before a much longer-goal plan of adding on to our already bizarrely added-to house--actually, here. Let me give you a totally dimensionally accurate floor plan: There is a window between our room and the…
Grilled some kebabs; they turned out real nice. Marinated the steak for 3 or so hours, alternated placing the peppers and steak skewers to make sure the fat's drippings hitting the coals transferred goodness over. Meat stacked on a stick is built different, may be king of the prep options [1] think about it: kebabs,,, shawarma,,, gyros,,, carnitas al pastor,,, it's the Good Stuff. Only contender…
Making pizza for the two girls has been quite entertaining; neither of them eat a ton and they both have very different (and shifting!) preferences: right now we're on lemon pepper breadsticks for Goose and cheese pizza for Snap [1] . It turns out too that the most exciting part of pizza for Snap right now is actually the sauce. She choose the sauciest pieces first and then ate them from the top.…
Something little i am celebrating right now is how I've ended up being the guy who people at work come to when they have questions they perceive as stupid--the ones one is embarrassed to ask but you have to ask because your normal info gathering avenues have failed. I love those questions!! I hate being in that situation, and if I've got the answer I wanna help, and if I don't got the answer I can…
Listen,,, being a dad rules in so many ways but recently I've been able to revel in one of the Ultimate Forms: watching my kid Participate in The Arts. She's been a part of a little choir that meets every week for this last semester, and the other week they had their concert and it was Perfect. Today Em texted me a video of Goose singing with them outside of our local [1] museum--doing one of…
I think there should be a game in the large 3rd person single player action game sphere of dark souls/zelda/monster hunter/control/splatoon where the shielding mechanic(s) takes the aesthetic and mechanical direction of a fighting game: you can hold a defensive stance and just tank a hit at the cost of a non-HP resource or you can time the stance correctly to gain advantage for a counterhit. Which…
I picked up Control for a song the other day; I figured I'd be playing it pretty slowly given how few my opportunities to play games without a sidecar [1] are, but I didn't realize just how slowly I'd be starting: this game's controls are my enemy. In general, I try to stay away from using WASD/keyboard movement; my left hand RSI flares up when I do it for too long, plus I've found controllers are…
it was a korma day
I made a guy. Its name is EGG-12: This guy. This guy has been wiggling in my brain for a VERY LONG TIME Way back when I first went, "hmm. Should I try building a gunpla? Is that a hobby rabbit trail I should fall down?" I saw a picture of this kit [1] and went, "ha ha. it a little egg guy". It round, it has a cavity inside for a mini robot to sit in--which gives the minibot a eggshell hat--and its…
hello. Welcome. These are my friends, the bookclub of worms. Please be mindful as you sit down. Be sure to listen carefully to the boss. it may seem intimidating at first but I promise it is kind and conscientious despite first impressions. The other day Goose was at the library when they were putting pool noodles behind books on certain shelves to prevent them falling into gaps or something.…
I've been listening to some ska recently, and specifically poking at what makes each wave what it is. (I think I'm looking for a particular flavor of ska but I don't know what, exactly). Ska is such a fun/ny sound in the middle of so many other genres and I love it. As much as I love it, though, I don't own any albums and don't have any sorta go-to for getting a ska fix, which is what all this…
Every year around this time, the frogs wake up. It's a raucous chorus and a delight and treat and I love it. We have a pond edging up to our property that's connected to a marsh that is connected to a copse (where I hunt morels). There was once a concrete wall/dock on the pond, but the wood has long rotten away and fallen apart, leaving only a divider between marsh and pond that is rather…
o to be to be to be I am you are we are Enjoy: sun light growth and growing frogs singing at the pond yellow in a sea of green (stars in that sky that stretches 'neath your feet) the smell of earth the smell of wet the silent bellowing sound of everything verdant opening up o! to be to be to be! I've been worn thin lately, and also listening to Wild Child by Enya a lot [1] . Here is a slapdash…
Little Snap doesn't say "yes" or "yeah" or whatever for an affirmative. She instead does the most musical and adorable "mmm-hmm!" and it makes me want to ask her a hundred questions so I can hear it over and over again. mm-hmm!
when you do that trick where you stand up close to the camera with your hand up and someone stands at the other end of the field so it looks like they're standing in your palm that's an optical lilliputian
I am going absolutely feral over this book I want to eat it I want to read it to everyone I need everyone to read it It is, on the one hand, a little poem describing what a snail is and how it lives. On the other hand, it is a primer on how one can pretend to be a snail. Together, it is some Extremely Capital A Art. To top it off, the art is delectable, a lush garden of moist earth and growing…
We got to see the artemis II launch and I don't know how much it'll stick in 5 yo Goose's mind but wowwie how cool and wonderful; the team of people, planning and building and prepping and mathing and,,, it neat it cool it rad I saw some flash cards they used to prep their moon geography for their study during the flyby and there was a little note that said something like, "don't memorize these…