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2025 Reads: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 📚
A beautiful, intimate story about love, loss, and displacement.
Theming a scavenger hunt activity at work… my cultural point of referenced was Carmen Sandiego. My younger coworker’s reference: Blue’s Clues.
Dang it, I’m getting old.
Happy for a Friday at the end of a long week. Assuming this morning’s snow doesn’t snarl plans, our youngest kid is heading out with the school Academic Decathlon team for the state competition this weekend, leaving my wife and I with the house to ourselves overnight for the first time in… years. 😲
2025 Reads: Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr 📚
The first half: socio-political observations as relevant in 2025 as they were in 1931. The second half: meanders, with an ultimately disappointing conclusion.
I’ll allow that maybe I just don’t get it, but…
Filling out a form to get an approval in a work tool. There’s a mandatory form field with only a title and no help instructions.
Poke around, no training available to give me clues, no data from other similar records in the tool that helps.
Then I remember the boss move: “N/A”.
Boom, submitted.
Stupid micro.blog question that I can’t seem to figure out: my individual long-form posts from the past 6 weeks or so have reply boxes enabled on them as expected. Older than that: no reply box. Is that a built-in setting? Configurable somewhere? Broken?
Co-worker just sent a Teams chat: “I’ll be WTF today since school is cancelled”.
Now there’s a Freudian Slip if I’ve ever seen one.
Spent the night cooking sausages and flipping pancakes for a Shrove Tuesday dinner at church tonight. Good food, fun folks to spend the evening with. Definitely ready for sleep now.
Wow, Kyrie Irving out for the year with a torn ACL. The Mavericks have pulled off what SpaceX calls a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. Trade Dončić, Anthony Davis immediately goes down with an injury, now Kyrie… What a mess.