Transplanting a Seattleite

Jack Dorsey on the layoffs

2026-04-18T13:57:35Z

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/twitter-cofounder-jack-dorsey-breaks-154132647.html

Fortune byline, so make of that what you will — for sure do not expect “real journalism” whatever the hell that might mean to you or anyone else. I went through a brief (maybe 12-15 years) period where I believed there could be “good” vs “bad” journalism. I’ve gone back to the cynicism that predated that period.

“At the end of 2025, Dorsey and fellow Block leaders headed home for the holidays …”

On the holiday break, C-suite retreat — man, and if THAT isn’t the worst way to have to spend your holidays — engaged in a strategy exercise. They are taking great pains to tell you it involved AI. But what did they actually say?

““We just did this exercise of, ‘Okay, so what is the minimal number of people that we would need to keep the service up 100%?’” Dorsey said recently on Sequoia Capital’s Long Strange Trip podcast.“

““Next, ‘What is the minimal number of people that we would need to be to fully be in compliance with our regulators?’” he continued. “Then third, ‘What is the minimal set of folks that we need in order to grow to fulfill our commitments we’ve made to the Street””

I have removed distracting additional phrases at the ends of these statements that refer to AI. If you remove the “AND I HAVE TO SAY IT WAS BECAUSE AI” parts of this explanation, the explanation if legible, simple and oh so very familiar.

Dorsey and the C-suite at Block, formerly known as Square, are being wildly outcompeted in payments on almost every conceivable front. They have an ongoing, growing stream, but they can see what is happening around them, and while they are growing, related companies in their industry are growing a lot faster. And those companies have very different labor cost structures. That is to say: their competitors are growing way faster, with a lot fewer people (relative and absolute and per anything you care to index it by).

And so they did what every company that doesn’t just straight up careen off the cliff does in this moment: what’s the minimum. Add some padding.

“ Dorsey said they even left some headcount buffer in case they made “mistakes” in their calculations. “Which we did,” Dorsey admitted.”

And then execute quickly and do as much as possible immediately, because once people find out what’s going on, they fight back. If you get them gone before anyone notices, resistance is much harder to organize.

People have been saying right since they first heard about this set of layoffs that it wasn’t about AI, it was about tech company bloat. They weren’t wrong, but they weren’t right either. Some day, we’re going to actually have a conversation about payments. OK, no, we’re not. Not ever. Payments are the most boring conversation ever. The only time anyone wants to talk payments is when their form of payment isn’t accepted when the time comes to pay. That’s the only time.

I know this, because I find payments endlessly fascinating, and even I cannot find anyone who wants to talk about payments.

Oh, hey! Look, it’s another incompatible values driven positions situation!

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Canceling things

2026-04-18T13:45:15Z

I’ve been canceling things. Mostly relatively recently signed up for things, but there was a whole revision of the cable/internet/voip thing not too long ago (very happy with that!).

There’s some stuff I’m hoping to blog about. Notably: physical book discourse, but also how we talk about inflation, and measurements of where we are as a country. I REALLY want to write about how values driven political positions can be at odds with each other functionally and almost always ARE at odds with each other within each individual human being. And by at odds, I mean “unintended / undesirable / unexpected” consequences that absolutely everyone ELSE saw coming as a direct result of me getting what I wanted, type of thing, and which I really hate and which had I seen it coming, I might have made different choices. I’m using “I” language here, and I hope everyone knows what that means.

But enough about the important things. How about something really stupid and trivial, like the World Happiness Report? It popped up in the small print on an infowtf that someone reposted (someone I know IRL and like and respect, so this is 100% not a criticism of that person for reposting), that I will not further summarize here so hopefully no one can ever figure out which infowtf that might have been (by tomorrow, I will have forgotten, which should help).

Anyway. The World Happiness Report has some extremely long history of being problematic, but apparently in recent years the Scandinavian (they say Nordic) countries have been topping the list and currently Finland is in the number 1 spot.

Finland, the country which was had to completely close its land border with Russia for years now.

Finland, the country which has been limiting asylum seekers and deporting at escalating rates.

Finland, the country in NATO other than the US that has the best trained and most experienced military, and which, as the rest of NATO scrambles to figure out how they will sustain the effort against the aggressor to the east in the event the US decides not to any more, has stepped into a probably unwanted place of Probably Has the Best Ideas of Anyone Else in the Eurozone.

By all accounts and long history, Finland is indeed a wonderful country, populated by hardworking, goodhearted folk who have a deep history of democratic institutions and a strong commitment to social equality. They give a lot of thought to how families with newborns are supported and how young folks are educated, to avoid a lot of the problems associated with “modern life” and/or prosperity. Mostly because this whole problem with their long land border isn’t exactly a new one.

I just feel like people should really think hard about what it means to be happy and to say you are happy and that you trust your institutions and whatever else the World Happiness Report is asking about these days. I’m not saying, hey, quit your complaining and Be Happy because all these happy places actually have it kind of tough in a lot of ways. I’m saying, quit fucking idolizing happiness. Value your disgruntled complainy-pants lifestyle for the powerful motivator that it is.

Oh, hey, that actually IS about values driven political positions that are at odds with each other. Ha! Sneaked that one in without even telling myself!

ETA: I don’t think we’re the best country in the world. This is not a competition. I fucking hate competition.

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So. Much. Walking.

2026-04-17T23:52:17Z

I got up entirely too early, checked the weather, had breakfast and tea, and drove up to Mayberry to meet AS for a walk. We went over to Camp Tevya, eyed the No Trespassing signs, but went for a walk anyway. It seemed to be fine. Very nice walk!

Later in the day, I walked with M.

After that, I took a nap. But I’m awake again for FF; we’ll see how that goes. I have a slight headache.

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Thursday was long

2026-04-17T23:51:10Z

I did not walk with M., because she went to see her nephew T. perform in a play. Yay family time!

I took the train to Porter Square, walked over to Davis Square, and ate dinner at Dakzen. I had the veggie spring rolls and veggie pad thai and a green tea. It was all pretty yummy and very filling.

I walked over to 204 Elm St to see the Post Meridian Radio Players do three short plays based on PG Wodehouse stories. The middle one was gender flipped. They were not in chronological order, as the last one depicts how Jeeves originally encounters Wooster. My new friend BW was doing foley on the middle one. Her husband, and others I met on the karaoke outing were also present, and we went to Orleans after for food (them) and drinks (us). I would return to Orleans happily. I would probably even go see more Post Meridian Radio Players performances. Nice crowd, both performers and audience.

I got a ride to Bedford from N. and R. picked me up there and drove me back to the train station to retrieve my car.

Fun day! R. would have come with me, except Fusion was doing their student showcase and A. wanted to attend, which, also, yay!

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Walk and lunch

2026-04-15T19:27:08Z

Monday is this wonderful new day for me! I drop A. off, meet BW at Mary Cummings, walk and chat, then drive over to the Yard House. Today I got the Kish and Tell off the low-abv menu. All three drinks are excellent, and I would rank them as Kish and Tell best, Take Me to Tokyo second and the Aperol Spritz third, but if you love an Aperol Spritz then why mess around, go with that. Kish and Tell is like a cosmo where it has a shoju instead of the vodka. Classy, complex, refreshing and light. Love all of it — the Take Me to Tokyo sake was good enough to tempt me to reorder and I’m not sad that I decided to go for completeness instead.

A friend of BW stopped by, and they were completely awesome in every way and had the coolest coat I’ve ever seen, which is honestly saying a lot.

I walked with M.

I called Boston Interiors and ordered the Stressless Adam.

T. came over and we did some planning.

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Still reading Kron

2026-04-15T19:24:26Z

Still enjoying it.

Also, fun family zoom, and fun zoom with I. I also walked with M. A very enjoyable weekend day!

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Tuesday is a lot of driving and a long day

2026-04-15T19:23:36Z

I asked JB to put together a schedule because there was a lot of stuff to do. R. drove A. to and from, and I drove out to the construction site. I went over the hanging height of various pendants, and we had to do yet another shuffle of the blue Ziba pendant, but I think it is going to work AND be really cool in its new location at the foot of the main stair. Both light fixtures are in the wrong location, one HAS to be moved and the other really should be at the top of the stair to the basement in our wing of the house. We’ll see how that goes. We never did get around to setting electric mirror heights.

MC and the rest of us went around and reviewed window treatments, again, and that went well. I later had to pick out a roller shade color for my sister’s kitchen and living room, and I still need to clear that with her but I am not at all concerned. It’s going to be so pretty in there.

I paid and JB ordered lunch from The Big Y for everyone on site, so that was nice. Their sandwiches are tasty. I got the small BLT and JB made sure it was totally safe for me. Woot! The crew was really sweet about the whole thing. The pizzas smelled fantastic.

A bunch of us went over to the metal studio after, and that was really fun, as always. I was so tired by the end of it, that I sat down as we were going over the surround for the overhang at the main door (a post certificate of occupancy project). Someone else in the office asked if anyone wanted a beverage, because there was leftover beer and a cider from previous office parties. I wasn’t really paying attention, but it eventually got into my brain and I asked for the Downeast and it was yummy, restorative, and completely (along with AC and being seated) dealt with the collection of pain that had been building up.

Fun day!

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Happy Tax Day!

2026-04-15T19:14:46Z

I hope you got yours done forever ago and already have your refund, but if not, there’s still a few more hours to get that extension request filed.

I walked with M.

I went to the dentist.

The last of the new flat bath mats have arrived, so, yay! A. really hated the pretty shaggy pink ones I got, but the flat ones in pink are really nice.

I will catch up on blogging in a bit; it’s been a busy few days, but nothing bad.

Today I puzzled out a color choice for the Vector design I had picked out, and C. signed off on it, so unless the shower enclosure folks say there’s something else unworkable, we are good to go!

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Revisiting Joan Kron’s Home-Psych

2026-04-11T14:47:26Z

In the Introduction, Kron talks about how mocked people are for taking home aesthetics and home-making seriously. She describes this article in the NYT (which you do not need a subscription to access):

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/07/archives/when-nothing-but-the-best-will-do-when-nothing-but-the-best-will-do.html

Like so many things from the 1970s, there are many details of the Davidson / Bennett co-op that are recognizable as sturdy trends in the intervening decades, and a lot about their explanations that speak directly to human desire in ways that are probably eternal. I kind of _like_ these people, and find it incredibly obnoxious that such sincere and straightforward people were relentlessly mocked for inadequately coding the snobbery of the day.

It’s nice to know that at my age, I was always going to wind up hating the NYT. It’s not that the newspaper changed. It’s really only about my feelings. (To be clear, I still think that the newspaper was always reprehensible — I’m just continuously revising how long ago that reprehensibility extended.)

I’m very excited to be rereading Home-Psych, altho I don’t love hardcovers.

https://archidose.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-visit-to-philip-johnsons-studio.html

Kron mentioned the additional buildings Johnson built around Glass House, including the windowless (there’s one) studio with skylight. The above link gives some pictures and story on it. I will refrain from further comment. For now.

I’m really enjoying this reread. I remember so much of it, and it has really shaped who I am, and that has really come into full fruition over the last few years.

ETA: Do you think there are more types of rug in existence, or more amari?

One enormous difference between 1983 and 2026 is that in 1983, people _wanted_ to talk on the telephone. (They did already own Apple computers.) But in 2026, not so much.

Page 46: “The telephone is so important that deciding where you want to do your talking is the first decision in many decorating plans.” Made sense then!

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Tuesday involves some driving

2026-04-10T14:07:44Z

I drove out to Florence. Retaining wall (dry laid stone) is gorgeous. Hinge doorstops are lovely. All the things we have done to deal with echo are working great. Ceiling height in pool room feels wonderful. Sconces in pool room are gorgeous. (Altho it is funny to see that many large light fixtures and have them NOT feel large or numerous at all.)

I listened to a bunch of podcasts, including one about Raye and bought the new album. And then I bought tickets to the show.

No walk today.

I stopped at Starbucks in Charlton plaza on the way home (drivethru) and got a tall (which is the smallest) oat milk mocha no whip and it was $7. I haven’t ordered it in a long time (and honestly, it used to be a soy mocha no whip in the past) and I think last time it was $5 something.

Dinner was at 80 Thoreau with R. and it was delicious. Bluefish with sweet potatoes two ways was quite amazing.

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Wednesday therapy

2026-04-10T14:05:21Z

A. was really late getting out the door in the afternoon, and was going to be at least 15 minutes to therapy. Being late feels disrespectful to me, and I really, really, really hate this pattern, so after discussing it with R., I drove over to therapy, since it is conjoint / family therapy and I really like the therapist. We talked a little about R. and my frustrations and concerns, and A. was as always extremely supportive, and when A. (daughter) arrived, we talked through some things and did some problem solving that was all around rewarding for all of us. So, yay! Therapy and talking and problem solving good!

I walked with M.

Oh, and JC from Fusion got back to me and A. is going to get to do Voice next year, which she is excited about and honestly, I am too, on her behalf.

Dinner was at NYAJ for all 3 of us. Their seasonal menu had veggie pad thai on it and was really good, as was the mezcal negroni. I think I might like that better than a boulevardier, but it is a tough call.

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Thursday is a little rocky

2026-04-10T14:02:57Z

Thursday started a little rocky, because A. started out ahead and then slid behind and I lost my shit because I feel like she is really late to her dance class no matter what I do and I find that disrespectful.

So I told her that, in some detail, and she was NOT late to dance class, and she participated actively, and the teacher seemed a little stunned, if the daily summary was anything to go by. So, yay!

I stopped in at Relax the Back to check out their zero gravity chairs, but they had a sign saying they’d be back at 11:30. Okay!

I stopped in at Boston Interiors to sit in the Stressless Adam, which I was initially skeptical of because the lower back area is so different from the Stressless I own. But after a few minutes with the buttons, I was heels over heart in love, and checking out the swatches to place an order. I haven’t ordered yet, but maybe tomorrow.

I had a Dutch lesson! A. is feeling much better, and it was a delight!

I had veggie pad thai at Benjarong for a late lunch with R., after going to the transfer station.

I walked and had a visit with M. I chatted briefly with her dad about the celebration of life (which is during Ravencon, so A. and I will miss it so fingers crossed R. will attend).

I dug into American Leather’s zero gravity options, and will attempt to visit a Cloud Solace tomorrow in Maynard.

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Happy Friday!

2026-04-10T13:58:40Z

No school today. Woot!

I will be catching up on blogging, because I got behind again.

In the news today, apparently the remaining person from the aircraft that was shot down in Iran was rescued, and if the WSJ is to be believed / the administration is to be believed, a C-130 was landed in the mud in Iran, and some Extremely Special Partially Folding helicopters taken out of the C-130, flown over to the mountainous terrain the person was hiding in. Someone got him out of the crevice and into the helicopter and back to the C-130 which was not able to take off, so the C-130 and all 3 of the helicopters were destroyed (!!!) and everyone somehow removed in an unspecified other aircraft.

I don’t even know what to say, other than that was probably a quarter of a billion dollars used to rescue one guy. This is the kind of romantic gesture that novels get mocked for. Also, this is the kind of gesture that communicates extremely clearly to interested bystanders the lengths to which the US is prepared to go to retrieve our people.

Anyway, I hope the flyer is okay, and I hope everyone else is okay, and I hope that this has the right kind of deterrent effect on the correct groups of people. I think it will. Fingers crossed.

It’s a sunny day, and I’m looking forward to a walk with M.

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Walks!

2026-04-06T23:31:28Z

I posted this on FB today: “ In family zoom yesterday, I was speculating about whether one could make a pork rib and lamb chop bone stock / broth / wtf. The consensus was largely, I don’t see why not. Googling produced ideas about how. So today, I opened up the most recent collection of bones and such that we cannot compost here at home but take to municipal compost. I pulled a couple lamb bones and a lot of ribs. And the answer is, yes, you can make such a stock, and yes, it’s really nice if you have a lot of post-nasal drip, just like chicken stock, and no, you really don’t need anything more complicated than the bones, water and heat. I do so love my induction cooktop.”

I will also add that I made a larger but still small batch of sweet fat dough (olive oil, sugar, white flour added to the sourdough from the crock contribution). A. does not like pecans. I made two small cinnamon rolls and two larger sticky buns (forgot the pecans and/or left them out so she could try them). Same dough — all rolled up as a log. The only difference was how they went into the custard cups. Sticky buns got fake butter and brown sugar, and served upside down; cinnamon rolls served up nothing added. The roll triggered a comment along the lines of, “These are some weird ass whole grain nonsense.” But wow, the sticky bun was popular.

I’m half tempted to make trad cinnamon roll icing, to see if that moves the weird ass whole grain nonsense to yummy. But I’ll probably just eat the roll myself for dinner, along with the pork rib and lamb chop bone stock.

I had a walk with M.

I had a delightful walk at Mary Cummings Park with B, and then we had lunch at the Yard House. They do not have a black tea other than Earl Grey, so I got hot water and lemon. After I’d eaten some of the tacos (I got the chicken and the fish, one of each), I ordered their sake low-abv cocktail Take Me to Tokyo. It was awesome. B. got the Aperol Spritz but was expecting sweet and didn’t get it. I tried it when it was clear she wasn’t going to have any more, and it was really nice — the least bitter Aperol Spritz I’ve ever had.

I really like that they have cocktails on the menu that are my kind of cocktail AND not alcohol forward. It’s nice having mocktails (they have those too) and my usual nonsense, but this in between option is awesome.

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Happy Easter!

2026-04-05T17:50:33Z

My walking partner has gone to the MFA for the first time in a while. What a lovely activity for a rainy Sunday!

I cooked the package of mushrooms from Costco — I’d eaten some of them already, but it was at a level I thought I could cram it all into the frying pan and cook them for omelettes. I also cooked the lacinata kale I bought on Friday. I air fryed a single potato worth of fries (all I had left from the farm share) and had a kale and mushroom and bell pepper scramble (omelette broke) with the fries. Yummy! And then I ate the rest of the strawberry cobbler from last night. Mmmmm.

I listed the small wooden basket on FB marketplace and it’s already been picked up. I listed the iPad that used to be A.’s, sat unused for a couple years other than to display sheet music for A.’s piano lessons (which she no longer does — teacher moved, she didn’t want to continue over zoom), then was loaned out to G’s (the kids speech therapist from pre-K) aging mom, and recently was returned. I booted it, updated it, re-erased and listed it and someone is supposed to pick it up in a couple hours. That’s about a square foot of kitchen island countertop recovered (between those two items), so that’s kind of awesome.

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Barnes and Noble, no phone call, phone call, baking

2026-04-04T15:54:51Z

I took M. to B&N today. N. appears to have passed last night; waiting for pronouncement (which is needful, because when there’s significant opioids for pain relief, things can be uncertain, altho I don’t think that’s what is happening here). Obviously expected, still a shock. It was nice to spend time with M. and we’ll probably get a walk later today.

No phone call this morning — for good reasons, tho! Springtime is bringing morning alertness which is delightful in every way.

ETA: I made a maple pecan sticky bun, just a fancy cinnamon roll with pecans, maple syrup and fake butter in the bottom of a custard cup, served upside down. A little of the roll stuck (honestly, I got off really easy here, it could have completely stuck), and a little of the juicy sweet fat spilled, but it was otherwise delicious.

I did have a delightful phone call with AY in the afternoon. It was nice to catch up; it had been a few weeks what with travel and illness.

In addition to the maple pecan sticky bun, I also made what I think is a strawberry cobbler. The berries I bought yesterday weren’t going to last long, so I trimmed them and made a sweet dough, rolled it out, proofed it and put it on top, with cinnamon sugar sprinkled over, and with maple syrup and fake butter in the berry filling. Mmmmm.

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Drones for road police

2026-04-04T13:59:58Z

I don’t really know what the category of LEO is that is patrolling the roads — I know it includes all levels of law enforcement, because there are roads at all jurisdictional levels. City roads. Town roads. County roads. Interstates.

Anyway. They have drones. FB has a fucking wave of AI generated content with a certain “I’m cool and not in the police way” vibe (“yo, …” type thing) about how police have drones and they will catch you speeding wherever you are. Do police have drones. Yes. But are they really using them for speeding? Seems like a waste of time and resources, honestly.

Washington State, interestingly, has a comparatively large drone program, and has for longer than a lot of states. Once upon a time, they probably had the largest law enforcement drone fleet, but that was maybe 2019 time frame. Not recently. They — and other states — consistently say that a primary use for drones is to collective evidence after a collision has closed part or all of a roadway, so they can reopen the roadway more quickly. Washington State’s Amtrak derail towards the end of their drone pilot program really opened their eyes to this and is a big chunk of why they made it a permanent program and invested so heavily.

Maryland has a program to fly radar around on drones _to trigger radar detectors_ to convince people there is speed enforcement and thus slow down.

https://roads.maryland.gov/OOTS/06DroneRadarW-Summary.pdf

Various agencies also use drones to find missing folks both very young and older, and in lieu of high speed chases, and, yes, to sometimes enforce speed in work zones.

I don’t know who is doing the FB AI posts, but it absolutely bites. I’ve stuck with FB through a lot of garbage, but in combination with the increasingly fictitious “science” posts about “breakthroughs” that are done by scientists (that no amount of searching can turn up), I’m thinking about giving up entirely. It’s discouraging. On the other hand, I’d get some time back for reading and playing Sliding Seas and maybe I’d be motivated to go hang out with friends in person, or at least call people on the phone.

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No Dutch, phone call with K., zoom, groceries

2026-04-04T03:06:21Z

No Dutch lesson today, alas. I did have a nice walk with M., and an indoor visit. I had a delightful phone call with K. I brought A. into school for her only and last Friday class and waited and brought her home after. We stopped at Roche Bros and did some grocery shopping including a lot of candy for her and chocolate bars for me.

I made a bao bun. I chopped up some rib and made my crappy bbq sauce (mustard, ketchup, sriracha from the farm box, maple syrup) for the filling. I did the pleats on top version and steamed it on the stove. It turned out much closer to right than I had any reasonable expectation of. It was fluffy and tasty, and it was structurally sound. It isn’t _as_ fluffy as the all white flour (some people use cake flour!!!) ones, but that was not what I was aiming for anyway. I think I’ll try the fold it and make the pleats invisible on the bottom version tomorrow.

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In Which I Drive to the Airport

2026-04-04T03:03:30Z

I drove A. to school and R. to the airport. He’ll spend a night in Miami and then get on a boat and see a helluva lot of bands.

I walked with M.

Other than the driving, it was a nice, quiet day all around. A. and I went to Season’s 52 after I picked her up from school.

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Happy April!

2026-04-01T20:16:02Z

Or April Fool’s. Or whatever.

A. is back at school, with extra allergy meds. I walked with M. Today’s single cinnamon roll included raisins and an egg and was truly fantastic (also, so large it was lunch).

R. has checked in for his flight to go on a cruise and listen to a ton of music, so A. and I get to have lots of together time for a few days.

I deleted a ton of email. I set up my SolarArk account, which is incredibly exciting. The coming months will include a ton of this kind of thing, as the more elements of the new house are completed.

I did a bunch of proxy votes (a couple railroads, J&J). It’s so nice how normal many women on the board has become. That was not how it was when I was first looking at these slates.

I re-upped at NYGB&S and here at dreamwidth as a premium paid account.

Lots of minor little administrivia. And listening to lots of Odd Lots podcasts.

I have multiple new books to read!

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Another day of cancel

2026-03-31T19:41:07Z

We all woke up feeling really bad, so A. had a zoom school day, and I put the checks in the mail and did the meeting virtually. Oh well! I later took another zyrtec (usually I take 1 per 24 hours, so this is 1 per 12), and that helped some but not completely.

I got a phone call from SH and while she was stressed, I always really enjoy chatting with her, and I learn new things every time. It’s so lovely to know her.

I canceled tomorrow’s therapy for A., and I rescheduled tomorrow’s dentist for me. Fingers crossed I’m back on the mend soon. Oh, and I rescheduled a walk with BW on Thursday, because I figure if I get a couple days to recover, maybe Murphy will make me entirely hale quickly.

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measurements and genealogy

2026-03-30T21:10:21Z

B, my not BIL, reached out for some family dobs and citizenship and similar information for background check (easier to get it from me than my sister). We also discussed the angle steelcase desk he bought from FB marketplace, and whether it would fit in the short end of his office. I’ll need to do some measuring when I am out there on Tuesday.

As I was researching citizenship, I realized that my dad inherited his dad’s Dutch citizenship, and it looks like so did my siblings and me! What?

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Phone chat, walk

2026-03-30T21:08:43Z

I had a delightful phone chat with JC. It sounds like the new school placement for B. is going well. Lovely!

I walked with M.

Last night on cocktail zoom, I was musing about single cinnamon rolls, and today, I made one. It turned out okay! It was fun thinking through how to make the strip to roll up. I sort of created a noodle, flattened it, and proceeded from there. It worked well.

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Zoom school, only one class, walk, cocktail zoom

2026-03-30T21:06:42Z

I had a delightful chat with K., typing instead of talking because I have limited voice. K. is exceptionally fun to do this with; not everyone is as quick to speak with their typing as with their voice, and she is amazing.

A. did zoom school again, and only had one class so that was comparatively easy.

I did cocktail zoom, and totally blew out my voice, but this is what I was saving it for, so good enough.

I walked with M., but continue to avoid indoor visits.

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Back to School!

2026-03-30T21:04:10Z

A. was a little late, but went back to school in person today. Woot!

I walked with M.

I made blondies.

It was really warm today.

Sadly, the NL citizenship theory evolved with research. I had a copy of my grandfather’s alien registration card in my tree on ancestry, which indicates that he didn’t complete naturalization before my dad was born (yay!) but it turns out Dutch citizenship law expires Dutch citizenship in the presence of another citizenship if you don’t maintain passport / registration / residency. Oops! So, yeah. That dream lasted less than 36 hours. Oh well!

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