Local friendly town manager. I work in software engineering, love TTRPGS, weird music, weird movies, my dog and family, and cooking good food....
I've been thinking through some stuff while on vacation and just generally not being online as much, and I think for me one of the next big steps is going to be removing myself from text based communication and moving back to actual phone calls where I can. I think that the text message has its role, when you're busy and can't speak out loud it's great to just fire one off, but I think at its core…
I have spent most of this week on a beautiful island in the Caribbean. I have taken 3 photographs the whole time. Part of that is the fact that I've been busy attending a wedding and the various hoopla surrounding it, the larger part is I've become ok with not needing to document everything. I think there's value in being able to look back, but I'm not sure that at this point I actually benefit…
i've been noticing something when i read posts here on bear. similar to how there's a "voice" for certain platforms, like the reddit smarminess, or the millennial voice to posts on social media, there's one showing up here. there's some sort of tone to some posts that's trying to sound like there's something incredibly deep, and i'm not entirely sure why. i have always been a huge proponent of not…
I see folks still trying to find the perfect Twitter replacement and I think that it's one of the things out there that you're better off without. Trying to abide by my own "no explicit negativity" rule here, but I'm not entirely sure why folks think this is a necessity. Bluesky is a platform I've bailed from after realizing the only thing that meaningfully changed is the population ratios and the…
The amount I've been looking g forward to playing hooky on one of the first properly nice days of the year with my pups is unreal. I really want to just have one day where it's just pretty chill and not just more tail end of winter misery. Remember to thank your Town Manager for a job well done! Contact
I think something about the culture of bear has gotta change in the long term. A lot of what does well, both on my blog and just checking the discover feed is posts that are angry at something. I don't think that an possibly be healthy in the long run and I think as a result I'm gonna try and just post about stuff that's got a more positive bent to it, even if number go down. Remember to thank…
I think everyone who likes taking physical notes a lot has run into some of the same thing where we want to be clever and have the best patterns and understand how to make things work. I think I've finally figured out that I'm a blank page guy. I know I don't like lined, it's a last resort, grid is too much on the page before I start writing, but I think even dot grid gets in the way of me just…
There is no magic amount of followers, likes any of this shit that will make you magically happy. Just post, move on and enjoy the peace of mind that comes from not being bothered by it. Remember to thank your Town Manager for a job well done! Contact
I heard this stupid phrase a few months back and as a former smoker it's just true. I think a lot about how good a smoke would feel, and the phone is a very similar allure. Just gotta try our best every day to avoid the shit that's slowly killing us. Remember to thank your Town Manager for a job well done! Contact
I know well that folks are far more likely to say something if they had a negative experience than a positive one, and I'm trying to be more conscious about how I handle my own feelings of general negativity. I think it's so easy to just shit out some strongly negative posts and even to have them gain some level of traction here, but I think what I've realized is, should they? I'm not gonna be one…