A PSA

It is not advised to confuse Snarky Puppy with Skinny Puppy.

Also, if you have both on a playlist together, you are sick and twisted. I like your style!

Why do I feel like an ass when a friend wants to get together on my day off and I don't want to do anything? Like Ado Annie, typically I can't just say "no." If I have a day off, I want 'me' time. This often includes saying no to my wife, too.

I deal with the public daily. I talk with sometimes more than a hundred people a day. It's a solid, mental drain. I need my space. But when friends or family come knocking, I get anxious all over again because I don't want to disappoint them. So I end up breaking down and doing stuff with them and put myself on the back burner. Or I get imposter syndrome, tell them the truth, and feel like I am lying to get out of said function.
Ugh.

"It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do..."
Thanks, Ado Annie. I agree.

An old observation about which I once opined. Why do car manufacturers advertise their SUVs climbing the side of a mountain? Who, in their right mind, is taking their brand new CR-V offroading in the damn Rockies?

You want to sell me your SUV? Drive down a Midwest back road in springtime. Fresh off a snowy winter when the behemoth snowplows have dug to the earth's mantle with each pothole they leave behind. If your precious new Ford Escape can "escape" one of those, then will I invest in your mountain traversing vee-hickle.

Until then, I am unimpressed.

Welp, I made two important moves this weekend to help my #woodworking hobby become a little smoother and open to a wider range of projects. Got a hitch on a new car and ordered a track saw. I’m pretty excited to use both very soon. My brother has a trailer I’ve been wanting to use but never had a hitch to use it. He is always busy and I don’t like bothering him all that much. As far as the track saw, I didn’t get one until now because I didn’t have the trailer to get sheet goods to use it. It just made sense to (to me) to get one with the other.

Oh yeah, we got a new car lol! Stayed in the Subaru family and got us a ’25 Outback. We loved our last one but it had more miles than I am comfortable with. Especially with my spouse driving a lot of miles for her job. This one has a lot more safety features, and it has cordless Apple Play for our phones.

I’ve bored y’all enough. Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Are there any old school Polish peeps out there that can explain to me why Polish fried chicken is served soggy? I don't get it.

#Dinner #polish #foodie