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

  • 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 5: Serene

    Sunset over choppy water with clouds partly obscuring the sun and darkening the skyline; the text reads 'lostininhaste.com.'

    There is nothing quite so serene as the sun setting on the beach / ocean. 🐚🌥️😎 #mbapr

  • What’s a caffeine addict to do when there isn’t any coffee in the house? They walk to the local ice cream parlor and get breakfast before the workday starts. 🤣 ☕️🍳🥯 📷

    A hand holds a foil-wrapped egg bagel sandwich and an iced coffee against a blurred asphalt background. The text lostinhaste.com' is superimposed at the bottom.

  • 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 4: Foliage

    A brown rabbit sits in green grass near lush bushes under sunlight, with the text 'lostinhaste.com' overlaid at the bottom right.

    Cute little baby bunny, attempting to blend in with the foliage, eyeing the unripened raspberries in the backyard. 🐇🪴🌱 #mbapr

  • 🔗 Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years | Ars Technica

    Victim was jailed for 428 days after LA cops failed to detect true identity.

    This is one of my biggest fears in life… 😱

  • 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 3: Card

    Playing cards are displayed on a wooden table, part of a card game setup with text on them to be combined humorously. Text on cards: 'Incest', 'Nickelback', 'A sweaty, panting leather daddy', 'Tom Cruise', 'A cunning stunt', 'Pamela Andersons boobs running in slow motion', 'A Hungry-Man® Frozen Christmas Dinner for One', 'The Star Wars Holiday Special', 'And the Academy Award for _____ goes to _____ (Black card)', 'PICK 2 (on the black card)'. The image has a 'lostinhaste.com' watermark.

    I’m pretty sure I’m going to offend someone with this but who doesn’t enjoy a game of Cards Against Humanity? 🤭 It’s always more fun when it’s your turn to play the black card and judge the responses. 😂 🂠 #mbapr

  • 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 2: Flowers

    White bell-shaped flowers (lily of the valley) hanging from a curved stem amid broad green leaves; a white wall in the background.

    Lily of the Valley has always been my favorite flower. Some of my earliest memories are of me and Grandma, picking them on a shady hill at her old house. My Partner planted a ton of them in the backyard a few years ago. 😊🌼 #mbapr

  • Just realized I missed day one of the “April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge” 😭

  • 📷 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. 🤓