To make it even easier to get blogging (rather than โ€œmanaging contentโ€), weโ€™ve decided to offer a coupon for the entire month of October. Sign up for a Pika Pro plan with coupon code WPCOUPON to get 15% off your first year. (Hereโ€™s hoping no one sends us a cease-and-desist letter for that coupon name!)

Pika is People

I rarely remember my dreams. But last night:

I dreamed I was dating a man I met while hiking. (Sure, why not.) Things were going well until one day as we were making out a literal third eye appeared on his forehead and he started sobbing, “You’ve got to fix me! You can fix me! You’re the only one who can fix me!” So, um, anyway, suffice it to say I will not be returning to the world of dating anytime soon. That was terrifying.

As Iโ€™ve considered climate impacts, Iโ€™ve come to recognize that thereโ€™s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide โ€” we are all in this together. While itโ€™s prudent to keep emergency supplies on hand for my household, I reject the individualism of the prepper mindset and am leaning into community as the key to our collective survival.

Managing climate disasters / @tracydurnell

๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ“โ„น๏ธ Doing a writeup (for work) of apps/software for time zone conversion/management. Please share #recommendations if that’s something you deal with or have opinions about, thank you very much.

Usually my past FB self is incomprehensible to me but this one still rings true

A screenshot of a FB status update that reads (in all caps): "COULD THERE BE A MORE PERFECT OCTOBER DAY I THINK NOT JUST MADE MYSELF A DIRTY CHAI LATTE GOING TO GO PUT BOOTS AND SCARVES AND PUMPKIN SPICE ON ALL MOVING OBJECTS IN MY VICINITY 
&10;REMEMBER WE MUST ALL DO OUR PART TO KEEP FALL ALIVE DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF OCTOBER DIE DO WHAT YOU CAN THE MOMENT IS NOW // VOTE PUMPKIN2016"

Inspired by @amerpie’s recent post about memorable internet moments:

Prodigy chatroom stories from ye olde Internet days

Kevin, wherever you are, your legacy lives on. Sorry if I never called you back.

today:

  • my 18yo texted that she misses me
  • my 16yo taught me some new slang (I forgot it already)
  • my 15yo said he’s impressed w/ how I keep things organized (!!!)
  • my 13yo is chilling in the living room with me, we’re both fiddling on our laptops

the good life, the sweet life, the here and now life

The secret power of a blog from @tracydurnell

A blog gives you the space to explore and nurture ideas over time, perhaps growing so slowly you hardly notice the extent of the evolution of your thoughts till you read something you wrote a few years ago.

one of the things I love most about working from home is nobody makes fun of my moves when I’m dancing at the standing desk

Last night’s vat o' soup: turkey chili w/ white beans and herbs and queso. Yum? Yes. Yum.

Feels like time to make a vat of soup

In the woods: a trail disappears around a curve. Mossy roots and leaves in the foreground.

well i super fucking love this www.theredhandfiles.com/joy/

i probably shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet anymore today

OMG A FLOOD OF GUESTBOOK SIGNINGS I AM FILLED WITH GREAT JOY also I made my blog title pretty with CSS (i am basically an internet wizard now)

HEY FRIENDS I just moved my blog to Pika! Come see! omg it’s so great! ALSO sign my guestbook please IT BRINGS ME GREAT JOY. โฎ• anniemueller.com

Making baked apples the way I remember my Mom making them. We’ll see if they taste as good as I remember, too.

just canceled ~ $70 of subscriptions. That felt really good.