Microposts

You’re not the boss of me now. You’re not the boss of me now. You’re not the boss of me now and you’re not so big.

Toddler is sick. Weirdly started as a respiratory thing with an infrequent cough but then manifested as vomiting and diarrhea. He’s doing less of those today, thank goodness, but his fatigue is high. He asked me if he could go to his own bed and put himself down for a nap. Super out of character and while it gives me quiet in my home that I’m basically unfamiliar with, I would trade all that peace to have him running around yelling at the top of his lungs.

Mother’s Day went well. My favorite florist was sold out by the time I looked, so I rolled the dice on this florist that ended up selling stemless marigolds and rose petals so I could make my own arrangement. Not as big an impact as flowers with stems for my wife, but still something. My mom got 1800Flowers and was happy with it.

We gave my wife a few hours to complete some sewing projects and ended up at the rich people park complex. It was pretty nice. They sell beer at the uppity convenience store along with some of the best fruit snacks I’ve ever had in my life.

My three-year-old would not eat them.

Re: last micropost about the computer being slow. Decided to dive into installing Linux, assuming Windows 11 was somehow responsible for all this. I’ve gotten as far as creating a partition and installing Ubuntu on it. Most things work fine except….my second monitor. And wow, it’s almost non-negotiable that I need at least two monitors at my desktop. Is this excessive? Am I just a monitor glutton?

Computer’s running slow as hell. Still have about 200GB of free hard drive space. Don’t know if it’s Firefox, some Windows shenanigans, or something else.

I did a big stretch and I’ve tweaked my neck. Turning 40 in two years is going to hit me like a truck.

Bargaining with my toddler to get him to sit at the table and not take one piece of food or a sippy cup and then wander around the house. Using screen time as bargaining currency. Parenting sin. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.