Happy birthday to me

Me with my $7 bike lock

We should add “what’s your baseball walkup song” to the standard rotation of icebreaker questions.

Mine would be Somebody New by Joywave

The main riff is the crocodile theme song from Disney’s Peter Pan

Austin

Sunset last night

A tranquil beach scene at sunset features silhouettes of people walking along the sand and a long pier extending into the ocean.

A bag from the new roaster. Such a cool design

Cool decor at the theater for the Stranger Things finale

Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚

I think Becky Chambers is a master of atmosphere, tone, and environment. Every book she writes feels deeply lived in and expansive. It didn’t hit me personally as hard as Psalm For the Wild Built, but I question if anything really could.

I feel like I could re-read this book immediately and pick up on a whole second set of considerations about my automatic thoughts on the way things should be. Even only at a surface level, there’s so much to consider here about chosen family and living outside the walls your culture (and species?) give you