Status Updates

Track: March 20, 2026: "This Charming Man" by The Smiths

I would go out tonight, but I haven’t got a stitch to wear. #CrucialTracks

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⬆️ 62 Princeton Reissue: 33.25 lbs

⬇️ Debadged ToneMaster Twin: 33 lbs

Peak performance. 🌺

Hadn’t made quiche in I don’t know how long. I’m no chef, but I do enjoy cooking. These turned out pretty well.

Am I out of my mind thinking Sesame has some of the better non-specialty donuts around? My local one makes great raspberry jelly, glaze, cinnamon, and devil’s glaze.

My younger brother Brad (left) passed away 5 years ago today. This photo was taken in 2014, shortly after his brain tumor diagnosis. We were blowing off a little steam following an appointment at the VA in Ann Arbor. Less than 2 years apart in age, we shared a lot. I wish we could’ve had more time.

Crucial Track for March 14, 2026: "Inept Apollo" by Nation of Language

Hadn’t heard of them, but saw they are playing with Deep Sea Diver this summer at Grand Lodge. The new Edgefield of the west side?

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Still deciding if I want to live dangerously and go to Cornell Farms during my break and pick up some new plants. My budget is telling me no, but my adhd…my ocd…is telling me 🙌

Crucial Track for March 17, 2026: "The Ugly Organist" by Cursive

Takes me back to those post–high school, angsty, not-sure-what-I’m-doing-with-my-life days.

My name is Driftwood.

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🎥 As expected. Good as a weeknight something that doesn’t take much Intellectual energy. Priyanka Chopra plays kind of a fun character — a former pirate. Well shot.

70s today in pdx.

“Deglaze the pan with a little cooking wine” is one of those tricks I wish I would’ve learned before my 40s.

Created (with assistance from Codex) a personal check-in app like Swarm/Foursquare that uses my ATproto PDS to save data for a stream on my personal website.

I love the idea behind Skyreader, but it has been clunky in Safari (won’t scroll) and doesn’t have browser extensions yet.

The morning routine of making all the red dots go away has again become mentally draining and distracting. Every time I buy something, sign in somewhere, or try something new, I’m added to someone’s marketing emails or newsletter. Time to prune the apps, unsubscribe, etc.

Not sure. I read the docs and I’m still confused. My fediverse account is also on urbanists.social but I’m enjoying all the flexibility of a PDS and what’s happening with standard.site. I’m basically feeding my personal blog PDS data at this point.

Anyone I know ever used Bounce by Anew Social / (~Bridgy Fed) to “migrate” followers from Mastodon to Bluesky? Just wondering how it went.

Recently I learned of this highly regarded boutique amp builder in my area. Point to point hand-wired Fender circuits. Very cool stuff. The owner Jim is currently doing some mods on my 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb. Can’t wait to get it back. Yorke Electric Sound

It was auto generated and I neglected to check, sorry

Not yet, will check it out.