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Day 1,854: Is There Cheese?

Liz was just playing a song by Brandi Carlile. I think it’s called “I am the mother of Evangeline.”

Holy crap.

Got me a bit misty-eyed. She is so underrated, y’all. More people need to listen to Brandi Carlile. More people need to GO to listen to Brandi. Including the Ho and I. We’re going to catch her the next time she’s in LA.

If you don’t know who she is, she has one of those classically amazing bluesy/folksy/blue grassy kind of voices. An all-timer in that regard. She does amazing covers,...

Day 1,853: SunDAY

I got work done.

I’m halfway through organizing the finances. This weekend warrior will finish that shit next weekend. Just in time, I think. I hope.

I watched just enough of the Niners game to see that we are, indeed, a crap team. Possibly the worst in the NFL. So, that was fun.

THEN…I got to go over to Stephen and Thida’s house to surprise her for her birthday! It was a To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before-themed party. She was surprised. We were warm, because we all dressed in “ski lodge” win...

Day 1,852: The Cozies

Wow. The cozies are in FULL effect here at the Ho-Heinichen House of Whores and Hosiery…

We put on the comforter.

*ira explodes into a puff of fluff*

It’s amaze.

It’s finally cold enough to have it on. This is the ONE thing I like climate-wise about this time of year. The rest of it, down here in LA at least, can suck my D. Sun going down at 4:30 in the afternoon? Nope. When it’s cold enough at night to sleep under the down comforter? Yes, please.

I did work today, unfortunately. I paid for t...

Day 1,851: Under Da Sea

Guys.

I fed sea otters today. From my hand. Inches away from them. I also got a “high five” from one.

IT WAS AWESOME.

The Long Beach Aquarium does “encounters” for a premium price, and we wanted to do something special with Liz’s dad since he was in town for Thanksgiving…well, it was pretty freaking special let me tell you.

I learned so much about sea otters; namely that they are VERY aggressive, at least in comparison to most other wild animals who will just run away. They’re relatives of an...

Day 1,850: Thankful

I am so, so thankful today. It’s almost overwhelming…

I am thankful for my family. Thankful for my wife and my dogs. Thankful for my mom, my dad, and my brothers. I’m thankful for my in-laws! Lin was here today for thanksgiving, and it was wonderful.

I am thankful for my friends. Today most of all. We had suuuuch a wonderful group of people this year for thanksgiving. Good lord. Arg and K-bear of course, along with Ali who’s an Orphan’s Thanksgiving original (OG!), and even Matt came up from...

Day 1,849: Rains down in Sherman Oaks

I bless the rains down in Afri–…Sherman Oaks.

It’s raining! Always a treat down here…almost. It just rained so much where I grew up that it makes me think of…home, and it makes me think of the winter time. It never snowed in Humboldt, not down by the ocean. You had to get up to some elevation to get snow. But it rained.

It rains in Humboldt for seemingly six months straight, from October/November till April/May. Rain always meant winter time. And frost on the clear mornings that freezes the g...

Day 1,848: Deep Space 5, 6, 7, 8

Y’all…Deep Space Nine is SUCH A GOOD SHOW.

I got to hang out with Josh tonight, and we watched some more of that show…we’re still in the first season, but something Josh was asking about reminded me of a later episode and so we jumped ahead…and dayaaammm. That show gets SO GOOD. It starts out a bit rough. Not bad. Not at all. I just mean…rough. You know, around the edges. It’s not quite all there yet. Which totally makes sense, because they’re *just* figuring shit out, you know?

So good.

We a...

Day 1,847: Star Baker

The Ho and I finished the latest season of The Great British Baking Show tonight. IT WAS SO GOOD THIS SEASON HOLY CRAP.

Seriously, if you’re not watching it on Netflix, you need to get on it. It will restore your faith in humanity, and this season was easily the best I’ve seen. They were all just so good, and each so different and entertaining, and soooo sweeeet. The nicest people.

Bravo casting. You outdid yourself.

I worked full-time today. Petered out juuust a little bit towards the end, b...

Day 1,846: Weird Sunday

Man, today was another weird-feeling weekend! And I don’t exactly mean that in a BAD way…I just mean that it didn’t feel like a regular Sunday.

Maybe it was because I hardly watched sports. I watched another movie instead. Maybe it was just the way I was feeling, which was a bit melancholy in the morning, and then rejuvenated in the evening, especially after a nice walk with Liz and the pups. Or maybe it was that for the first half of the day, I should have taken allergy drugs, but I hadn’t.

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Day 1,845: I dunno

I dunno what to title my entry as tonight. It was quite a day…which is odd to be feeling like, because I truly took it as a day off…

But, let’s see: I watched the film Hereditary today, and that made me think about a lot of things. “Things,” like all over the place kind of stuff. For example: on one hand, the movie was very, very effective and truthful at showing a family dealing with tragic, deeply scary, life-changing grief. That’s something I have personal experience with, and what they we...