I'm headed to the airport in about an hour to head to Ft. Lauderdale for a very quick trip to help with Gay Mens Chorus South Florida, and also to check in on Pix's dad. Out there today, and back on Saturday. Tech the concert tomorrow, and the show is Friday night.

I'm already tired.

ND, are you able to nap on the plane? I'm sorry for the stress.

Well, the realtor has pulled themselves up a bit by sending me a link to a house we'd actually happily consider - if it were in the municipal fiber area. It's listed as part of next year's expansion, but fast internet is how we pay for the house, it's not a "would be nice to have".

Still! Single level, 3B/2B, integral two-car garage with access through the mudroom, woodburning insert in the family room off the kitchen plus an ASHP for heating and cooling, with a sunroom off of that; the lot's not huge but has mature fruit trees and is fully fenced. All for about $75 more than we're paying in rent. Someone's probably going to buy it for cash tomorrow, but it's a hopeful sign.

May it be a harbinger of good options to come, amyparker.

-t, sounds not horrible (the reorg) and delicious (the brie).

Smooth travels, ND.

Longing for the brie - I did a search and there are places in town that carry it. yay

ND, are you able to nap on the plane?

I’m upgraded to first so it will be a comfortable flight. My weariness is mostly just with the world at large.

This is the cheese, it is soooooo good [link]

ooh, they have it at my local Whole Paycheck

ION, Mediocre White Dudes With Inflated Importance Syndrome struck today. I belong to a local chapter of a national community organization. There was recently some high profile litigation related to the organization's purpose. The Law Department of my company asked the attorney who argued to case to do a presentation. The former president of the local organization chapter works at my company. He's a good dude, so I got permission for him to join the Zoom (usually limited to the Law Department).

I reached out to him to say "hey this is happening and you can join" and his response was "do they want me to speak?" I was like "no, sweetie, we'll let the nationally renowned Supreme Court litigator have this one."

Timelies all!

Tired for various reasons, plus the muscle in my neck that sometimes gives me trouble is giving me trouble.

"no, sweetie, we'll let the nationally renowned Supreme Court litigator have this one."

Ha!

plus the muscle in my neck that sometimes gives me trouble is giving me trouble.

Ouch. Can you heat or stretch?

Damn, today was truly a brutal Graham/Hawley/Cotton cage match to duke out who could bottom out faster and frolic in his own filth more shamelessly. (Kennedy and Mike Lee tried it, but they haven't got the depth or sophistication of filth; they'll never make varsity).

I'm immensely grateful that I have been too swamped to watch the hearings. Normally I would watch it all. They are indeed frolicking in their own filth. With ND on the weariness with the entire world.

On to the important news:

Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, has died at 74, The Verge reported. The GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, dates back to the 1980s, when Wilhite was looking for a way to send high-quality graphics in color during the early stages of the internet. If you’re wondering how to pronounce Wilhite’s magnum opus, he settled the debate in a 2013 interview with the NYT. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”

Also, I left the Delray Beach house for the last time and handed over the keys. I was surprised to find myself choked up when I called my sister going out the driveway with the news. Mixed bag of emotions, but having the $ in the bank kinda swamps the other ones.