My jeans hunting adventure resulted in three new pair. I tried on like 100 at every store in the mall. It seems like baggy, fat legs, and diaper-butt are in style. Not a fan! There is literally a jeans category now called 90s Baggy. What? Gross! I found a style called “slim straight” which doesn’t make me look like an obese misshapen freak show. I got two pair at American Eagle – on sale BOGO! – and a pair of Wranglers at Walmart that are surprisingly a great fit. So I’ve doubled my jeans count!

Ugly shoe update

Health kick!

I can’t believe a candy bar costs $4 at a gas station. What the hell is going on? Who can possibly afford that? It’s ceased being an impulse buy. Sell your Mars stock now!

Hip teens at mall!

The lighting in this fitting room is a hate crime.

Shopping for jeans. Send HALP! There’s a section called 90s Baggy. Barf! Eek!

Hire me now

Wow! I’m 78% through Murder on the Orient Express. It’s flying by.

Getting old is weird. Some days I don’t recognize the person in the mirror. Some days I feel like the same person I was at twenty five (with a little less hair). I am blessed that I have my health and vitality. I’m feeling great and getting so much done! Over the last handful of years, I think I’ve cracked the code of living an intentional, mindful, productive, and positive life. It opens up so many wonderful possibilities – like a blooming flower! The only true complaint is that more naps are needed.

Laser focused! I’m literally sitting on my stoop waiting for this to arrive.

Since the shutter of JCPenney, I have struggled to buy work clothes that fit my short stocky body. All my dress shirts are like ten years old and are getting threadbare, faded, and discolored. I have finally found a dress shirt that you can buy fitted to size versus small, medium, large which absolutely never fit me well. I bought one to test and it looks fantastic. Gonna buy in every color.

Speaking of booze, I think I’ll meet with my lawyer periodically – every five years? – to make sure nobody gets their grubby little hands on my kerbillions. There are definitely a few edits I need to make to my estate plans. I hope to die penniless in some alley behind a dance club in Malta with hookers giggling and doing coke. It could happen?

I like when my part-time consulting gig pays me $300 a week. Booze money!

Chocolate peanut butter pie

It has come to my attention that it is a full moon on Monday. (And a fire dance through the night …)

Kinda surprised I hadn’t thought of this before. I’m gonna track my digestive issues in the index card system to see if I can triangulate on a driver. Ain’t nobody got time to be up all night shitting my brains out. Gaunt looks!

Finally making some progress on this puzzle. It’s a super busy pattern and the pieces aren’t jumping out at me like they usually do.

Tubi ads have no influence on me!

Working on my Buddha project be like.

My 2026 Reading List has been updated. Click the link to view. In my very slow efforts to move my reading away from the amazon silo, I’ve moved my reading list to Storygraph.

Bakeries take forever to do anything HR related. My four hour interview is finally upon us – Monday. It’ll be a whirlwind of tours, lunch, and panel meetings with bigwigs. I’m not really nervous or worried about anything other than the usual things I fester about. What will I wear? Will I be cold? Do I have to go outside? Should I double-up on allergy meds so my nose doesn’t run? I was sent a list of people I am meeting and of course have FBI-level researched and created files and flashcards on everything about each of them. “I love that photo of you and your daughter Sophie at Disneyland last year!” I have no idea what to expect, and there really is no way to prepare. I’ll just be my chatty fun smart self and see how it goes.

In other Bakery-related news, MLB is on vacation. I am relatively caught up and plan to do webinars on the treadmill all day.

Lort! My Xteink has finally shipped. I ordered it on February 14. It is blowing up the intertubes! A cheap featureless tiny e-reader.

I feel attacked!

On the same day I saw a blurb about how critical it is to teach children how to become proficient users of Ai, I saw another mention of Ai lumped in with time and attention wasters like social media and doom scrolling. Ha ha! Humans are cute.