01: in the court of the Lunch King - And discovering all the little protocols of the lunchroom in the new workplace.
02: told not to talk about golf - The Lunch King continues to bedevil me, if only remotely.
03: expensive healthcare - I don't really have much of a choice when it comes to the company health insurance plan.
04: how to make a KVM work best - A little application to remember the locations of your windows when a monitor disappears.
05: cold foggy April day in the Adirondacks - The lake ice has broken up a lot just since yesterday.
06: cold foggy April day in the Adirondacks - The lake ice has broken up a lot just since yesterday.
07: not fired yet - I'm a little gun-shy about cryptic emails from HR people.
08: worsening astigmatism - Now I notice it even in the full light of day.
09: pre-tariff shopping spree - I've been buying lots of stuff from China of late.
10: Windows 11 audio torments - I've been unable to experience a reliable sound experience with a brand new Windows 11 laptop because almost nothing about it does not suck.
11: single pair of tracks in the snow - Driving to the cabin alone on a rare snowy April day.
12: from one snowy house to another across a snowless hundred miles - Driving home through a mostly vernal landscape from one snow-bound house to another.
13: eshittified in your brain - Watching the first episode of the new season of Black Mirror.
14: keeping tidy toilets tidy - Nobody ever leaves a mess in the workplace restrooms.
15: overly woo-woo videos in my feed - Be careful what you watch when researching why a kooky paranormal podast might not be on the up and up.
16: resumed complicated curry - Finishing that chickpea-potato-mushroom-spinach-cauliflower curry I'd begun on Monday.
17: a good day after nearly a month on the job - It took that long to demonstrate I was worth hiring.
18: coltsfoot flowers in force - Gretchen's first visit to the Adirondack cabin in 2025.
19: dock deployed, 2025 - Gretchen and I wrestle the floating dock off the lakeshore to its proper summer home.
20: buffleheads, a loon, a pair of mallards, and a beaver - Lots of wildlife today on Woodworth Lake.
21: no longer arguing about the Telepathy Tapes - After revealing to Gretchen how manipulative they are, she stops talking about them.
22: Thinkpad is still not a bad brand - Delighted by how easy they still are to repair.
23: how to make a 1950s meal more interesting - Allow the separate parts to interact. And add hot sauce.
24: the carpenter bees of MyTown - They love that raw-wood cladding.
25: Charlotte barks a bit too much - This time Crazy Dave knocks on my door in the wee hours of the morning.
26: a litter problem along the lower Chamomile - Crazy Dave apparently thinks nothing of dropping trash in the forest when it's just him using it.
27: deprocrastinated retiling - I resume a project started last fall: replacing delaminating stones on the slab in front of the door.
28: yourassma - A double dinner date in Woodstock and then the upstairs of our house fills with a miasma.
29: nobody got quilled - Neville doesn't make it to the porcupine Charlotte found on the ground and had enough restraint to avoid.
30: vegetable soup - After a day of crappy tech trouble, I come home and make a soup.