The l’appel du vide of grilling food and considering tossing my phone onto the coals

Also, nothing like stupidly inhaling charcoal grill smoke off and on for a few hours and then having part of my brain go “is this Covid?”

what if instead of fireworks we set off really loud eerie fog horns from ships on the river

HOOOOOOOOOONH HOOOOOOOOOONH

@phire "Writing as just a hobby, though, means that I’ve never figured out how to carve out a satisfying amount of time for it."

hahaha yes 🥂

Like seriously, what if folks on the Willamette River downtown PDX were like:

HOOOOOOOOOONH

WOO yay!

HOOOOOOOOOONH

Oooooh ahh

HOOOOOOOOOONH

applause

Catsby was hiding from fireworks under the couch but I have lured him back out with a heating pad and scritches

@sungo@nymwars.org He came up for some scritches but then returned to his spot under the couch after a few more booms