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Scruffy, but freshly shorn Gracie dog in profile. She’s looking majestic!

The clean and newly shorn Gracie sitting in front of some greenery.

Black and tan scruffy dog looks intensely at the camera.

Today’s #SmallGoodThing: Gracie is healed enough to go get groomed! The groomer left her eyebrows, her little mohawk, and some of her ear feathers. She just might have to come to campus with me tomorrow!

The library is packed today! It makes me so happy to walk around and see all the different ways that people are using the space. Studying, writing, sleeping, catching up with friends, making something in the makery, or heating up lunch in the student "break room."

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It is completely insane that they are putting people's names into their paid product as "experts" without their knowledge. And Grammarly's response is to say people can OPT OUT?? There's not even a definitive list to see if you're on it.

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: listening to the neighborhood kids play hide and seek outside our place. My office window is open and I can hear all their whispering and running around. The cutest! 🥹💜💚

Fascinating

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

Living large, Dolly. Don’t let anyone dim your dreams. 😬

So good!!

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing is enjoying 1/2 a bottle of 2026 Bigfoot from Sierra Nevada. This is one of my favorite beers for a reason. So dang delicious!

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

I’m beginning to think that you’re just riding up and down that bike path hoping to run into Tommaso!

And by them, I mean the dang devil winds. 👹🌬️

I noticed them ramping up! Today’s are particularly strong. I was considering going for a longer ride, but cut it around 30 because I didn’t want to struggle the whole dang time. The gusts are not to be trifled with!

Thanks! It's the Supacaz Prismatik in "oil slick." I am totally in love with it.

A view out to Cardiff State Beach with a bike leaning on a cement wall in the foreground.

Temperature swing of 40 degrees on my ride this morning with a low of 42 and a high of 83. No wonder my sinuses are running!

Two bicycles leaning against a bike rack.

Sunday morning coffee break with @smorgcycle.bsky.social as the day starts to warm up.

Meeting a friend this morning for a ride and it’s so damn dark!

Today’s #SmallGoodThing: I went to a friend’s 40th birthday party this afternoon. This person has had some hard news recently so it was wonderful to see folks there to celebrate her and share some joy. Hug your loved ones, all!

Well, they can’t exactly scritch themselves now, Erin!

if you gave amtrak 5% of the military budget every year it would have received more money in two years than it has in its entire existence up to that point

Mountain Roooooooaaaad!

I've got to be honest, my friends, I have to work this morning but it is hard to understand how to go about normal life when my home country is rampaging out of control like a drunken abuser

Yep. Cannot do it.

I’m trying to watch some of the Oscar nominees and I cannot get past the violence in One Battle After Another. It doesn’t help that I CANNOT stand DeCaprio or Sean Penn. It’s toxic masculinity all the way around.

This is sick and horrific.

The Hague when???? JFC it can’t happen soon enough.

Nope!

Today’s #SmallGoodThing: I had an appointment with a new-to-me eye doctor and she tweaked my contact lens prescription. It’s much, much better now! And I really liked her! It’s a super small, local practice so I’m stoked it went great.

I am so, so sorry, Brooke. This is horrible. Sending you and all the loved ones of these poor women so much love and care.