Lost In Haste
Lost In Haste
Full Stack Developer and Digital Packrat

Post: Micro

  • 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 1: Toy

    A small dog rests beside a cinched plush toy resembling a log, in a room with a record collection.

    Russell was never all that fond of them but he would occasionally get a toy; he absolutely destroyed the squirrels inside the log. 🤣🐶 #mbapr

    Note: This post was backdated, as I missed the first day.

  • Finished reading: The Gorgon Incident and Other Stories by John Bierce 📚
    ★★★☆☆

    Having finished the Mage Errant series last year, it was rather nice to go back to the same world / universe, to revisit and reminisce.

    An orange octopus-like creature emerges amidst ruins and water, tentacles grasping floating swords. Cover for 'THE GORGON INCIDENT AND OTHER STORIES: A MAGE ERRANT ANTHOLOGY' by John Bierce.

  • Working on my taxes this afternoon and wanted to double-check there were no documents for an old retirement account. It’s nice to know some things never change: Empower Retirement is still an awful company with awful tech. 🤣

    A web page with unfinished code snippets and a logo reading 'EMPOWER YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN,' labeled '(1 of 4).'

  • Is it just me or is advertising in podcasts just getting…awful? I just listened to five minutes of “sales stuff” and…yuck (it was he same commercial, repeated three times). I’m all for paying for podcasts but some of them, there just isn’t a way to avoid the advertising.

  • 🍿 Date Night: we decided to watch a movie neither of us had seen and as we’ve been watching Fawlty Towers lately, we ended up on A Fish Called Wanda. By the end, our sides were hurting from all the laughing; 🤣 this movie is beyond absurd, in all the best possible ways.
    ★★★☆☆

    Four adults pose against a white background, one holding a fishbowl; promotional material for 'A Fish Called Wanda.'

  • Dinner tonight… 😋🍱📷

    Sushi rolls in a tray with condiments; wasabi, pickled ginger, and soy sauce on the side, on a patterned fabric background.

  • Given my background with MS Sql / T-SQL, you’d think it would be trivial for me to upgrade from PostgreSQL 15 to 16…but you’d be wrong! 😂 Maybe it was b/c Docker was involved but goodness, that turned out complicated than I thought.

  • Set up a FreshRSS server over the weekend for fun; yes, I am a nerd. 🤓

  • Finished reading: The Price Of Power by B. K. Cook 📚
    ★★☆☆☆

    The last book of the series (though, the author makes it pretty clear they’ll be continuing the books), this one felt a little rushed and you could see the ending coming a mile away but it was still a satisfying conclusion.

    A cloaked figure and a lion approach a large tree against a mountainous backdrop at dusk. Text: 'THE PRICE OF POWER BOOK 3 OF THE ILAMANTIUM SAGA B.K. COOK'

  • You know it’s bad when the representative from the Insurance company tells you to try GoodRX instead of using your own bloody insurance. Ah, healthcare in America. 😱🤬

    (The generic version is out of stock and back-ordered everywhere in the City and the name-brand has a 110% markup.)

  • Can’t get a 90 day supply of mediation filled b/c of an unspecified error in the computer system my mail-order pharmacy uses (they wouldn’t confirm if the big cyber-hack was the cause), so I have to use a local one but they don’t do 90 day supplies. 😱😡 #HealthcareInAmerica #FirstWorldProblem

  • A dear friend of mine would have turned 42 today, if she hadn’t passed away during the Pandemic. Rest in peace, sweet Carol…we all still miss you. I hope whatever you are, Russell is keeping you company, begging for scratches and watching you eat, hoping for crumbs to fall. 🤣😮‍💨😢💔

  • Morning coffee with a morning view… ☕️❄️🏔️📷

    A mug rests on a wooden rail overlooking a snow-covered landscape with evergreen trees and a colorful sunrise sky. Text: lostinhaste.com

  • Someone else didn’t want to wake up this morning either… 🐈 🥱 📷

    A fluffy gray cat is curled up sleeping on a couch beside a blue pillow, with the text 'lostinhaste.com' overlaid at the bottom.

  • The perils of living with a non-coffee drinker: he walked in and asked in an accusatory tone: “why does it smell like Seattle in here?" 🤣☕️