I am 33 miles from my car spelling boobs. I can not wait.  I've never been as excited for anything in my life.

update:

I've never been so fulfilled 

male on male compliments

a bro complimented me on my gains at the beach this past weekend.

I consider this year won.


Update, March 23, 2020, Day 2 of the Quarantine:  oh, we were but children of summer. 

what's normal anymore?

is this a reasonable and respectable dinner for a single person? i dont know what's normal anymore.

miso soup with mustard cabbage and watercress stems, two fried  eggs, an orange and a konbu musubi.

imma get in on this meme

if you're not happy single, you wont be happy dating someone.

happiness comes from dabbling in numerous solitary hobbies like surfing, weight lifting, archery, pottery, oil painting, playing guitar, poetry, martial arts, reading, gardening, or cooking... not relationships. 

fight club

I fell down some stairs

dont mess with the wuhan

cant tell if this tailors sign has been up for a long time and is just generally racist, or that the corona virus panic is enabling new racist protectionist trade policy sentiment.

18 inches

her: is that an 18 inch socket wrench extender in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

me: it's an 18 inch socket wrench extender.

her:

me:

her:

me: but yes, I'm happy to see you too.

nine to pho job

vietnamese  pho restaurants have a pretty high barrier of entry for anyone who wants to work at one. you have to be lucky enough to be born into the extended family that owns and runs it. itd be easier to end up as the CEO of a fortune 500 family than break into a pho restaurant dynasty.

good news and bad news

The bad news: things have gotten so bad that Rage Against The Machine is coming out of retirement.

The good news: Rage Against The Machine is coming out of retirement.  

no mistakes just happy little accidents

bob ross, that guy, tells me halfway through the 30 minute video i'm supposed to use a thick firm dry paint for this painting, after i had thinned it down already.  I was kinda upset at him, but then... turns out he was right, we don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents, because I really like how the too-wet paint turned out in these mountains.

she whispered to herself

[3:45am]
sipping her tea,
the roomba circling the dark, hollow apartment.
[3:46am]
"I'll be okay",
she whispered to herself.

drunk slave

Drunk me is best me.  I wake up and marvel at what blacked out drunk-me did the night before.   Laundry is done and folded and put away.  dishes are cleaned.  garbage is taken out.  Week's worth of food is cooked and waiting in the fridge. new oil painting is completed.  Bills are paid and ready to be mailed out. car is washed and clean (that was a nice one).

i love waking up and seeing what drunk-me has done for me-me.

Its like having a slave.  I provide food and shelter and alcohol and my drunk-slave just does things for me.

ahhh, the sweet sound of girls screaming to sing me to sleep.

thats too much man

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

your papa was a pixel wrangler too?

her: so what do you do for a living?

me: I move dots of light around on my flat piece of melted sand. 

box S

why do I feel so fulfilled and safe when I look at my stash of extra cardboard boxes?!

zero gains game

one squat rack, me, and ten new years resolutioners.... much like middle east geopolitics, going to the gym after new years has become a zero sum game. 

shelby iowa

I've been looking for love in the wrong place all this time, apparently my spiritual single is waiting for me in Shelby, Iowa.

Iowa...maybe being alone isn't so bad.

features

does anyone else continue to discover new features on their smart phone by accidentally touching it in a different way? 

insert inverter coolant pump POA903

worst thing to ever happen to me

The lives of the people around me, the ones that i love and care about, are in pain and chaos.  Broken thirteen year long relationships, broken marriages, divorce, unwanted pregnancies, cancer....

and this is the worst thing in my life right now:

I'm such an asshole.

I feel guilty.  and worried that my turn for tragedy is coming.  

12.10.19 update:

annnnnd, the problem just went away. I'm the worst. 

12.11.19: annnd its back, why is my life so hard.

Miles Davis and Bob Ross

there are worse ways to spend a Thursday night 

snorers

mutineers < rapists < child molesters < murderers <  snorers. 

seriously, what evolutionary function does a snorer provide other than telegraphing "hey prehistoric predators of the night, I'm over here with my tribe and we're all deep asleep and helpless, come eat us!"

always makes me smile

lost in Geary

to paraphrase a line from the greatest movie ever: "what kind of hotel makes you change your own sheets? "

A: a Hostel