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c_hawkthorne  ·  6 hours ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 12th, 2025

We've been casually looking for a house for like 6 months or so, mostly for fun and to understand the market in case we are ever able to afford something here. Well an absolute stunner of a house came up towards the top of our price range, so we reached out to the sellers agent to get disclosures and everything looked really solid so we found an agent (family recommended) to talk to and the agent was like "that's going to go for 30% or more over asking I won't even go through with helping you beyond a verbal offer" which like, she is probably right, but was a huge asshole about the whole thing. We aren't getting that place, we know that, but at least do your job and put in a formal offer. Don't be a gatekeeper and say no for the seller. So that's disappointing but not surprising. Oh well, something may come up or maybe the housing market will come crashing down and we can afford something even better in a year who knows!

c_hawkthorne  ·  7 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 5th, 2025

Running a training today and tomorrow. It's with a FEMA contractor. They asked about citizenship status before and check gov IDs day of. Horrifying.

Then there's the protests happening today. Super poorly planned because it's a Wednesday but it's also weird because finding info on who organized it is difficult. Giving weird vibes.

In good news, to destress my partner got nerf guns and we had a pillow fort and nerf gun war last night. She won, my fort fell apart. I'll win the next battle!

c_hawkthorne  ·  8 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Blob update

Super wonderful newsletter this time! Sorry to hear about everything but great to hear from you, and thanks for sharing.

c_hawkthorne  ·  21 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

Good news: I found someone to pass around my resume to help find a new job!

c_hawkthorne  ·  21 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

c_hawkthorne  ·  28 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 15th, 2025

Job has been rough lately. Applied to some things and waiting to hear back. Ton of new jobs posted already this year so hopefully they're real and not ghost jobs.

My partner had a short PhD phone call interview yesterday (Advisor on maternity leave) and it went well. So gearing up for the possibility of losing 40% of our household income in the Bay area. That would be an interesting ride for sure. But damn I'm really hoping she gets in. She'd have a ton of fun and do incredible things both during and after the program. And since she's got a Masters degree already she thinks she can do it in 3-4 years.

We went hiking last weekend and saw some California Condors. They're incredibly rare and wonderful birds. Gigantic, very social, very important carrion disposers in food chains, and in general a super interesting comeback story. One of the biggest causes of harm to them has continued to be lead poisoning. Technically in CA lead ammunition can't be used for hunting of wildlife but it's still allowed for everything else, and even some wildlife is exempt from the ban. It'd be a great state law to just ban lead ammunition in general. Better for wildlife, better for human health (parents' hobbies are a huge cause of childhood lead poisoning!), and also might make gun use slightly more expensive, which I'm okay with. Looked briefly into how to get a prop on the ballot, but I don't think I could do that. So I'll be reaching out to my representatives soon to say "make a law that bans the use, purchase, sale, and possession of lead ammunition". I know it'll go nowhere, but I can dream.

c_hawkthorne  ·  37 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 25, 2024

Two latkes with a fried egg between is a classic too!

c_hawkthorne  ·  41 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 1, 2025

A bit late but so be it, with the day off it slipped my mind :)

Happy new year to all! We've booked a 2 week vacation for late spring and I'm super excited for that. Plus we've got a few weekend trips including a spa weekend and backpacking in Big Sur. Going to be cold but fun! Apparently Pinnacles National Park's campground is privately run and as such wildly expensive compared to other national parks which is a shame as we were both looking forward to that. Got some super nice wildlife binoculars for the holidays and they've been super cool so I'm excited to take those on some hikes.

c_hawkthorne  ·  48 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 25, 2024

Merry Christmas and happy Chanukah to all who celebrate! Hung out with my partner's family and made a fuck ton of latkes. I'm stuffed. I think I had 10 at dinner not to mention some while cooking too. My life pre-latke was bland compared to now. Def recommend y'all try a latke. Making your own is super fun too.

c_hawkthorne  ·  54 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 18, 2024

Loved the last season of Lower Decks. I've tried other Star Treks and I just couldn't do them but this one was so fun.

c_hawkthorne  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 18, 2024

I'm supposed to update an ~180 person contact list by December 30th. Absolutely no desire to do that. But I've got other projects that are more fun to play with over the next few weeks so that's nice.

c_hawkthorne  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

It's def see other family. Grandmother is 88. I'll probably not do many visits home after she dies. Especially if moving internationally ever happens. As far as local food goes, Wawa, soft pretzels, Amish food, and a local breakfast burrito that just can't be beat.

c_hawkthorne  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 11, 2024

At a conference right now. Did a presentation yesterday on local strategic stockpiles. It's not part of my job but it went well enough to catch attention of the feds in the room so that's neat. Caught up with a counterpart in a nearby county and we got to bond over how much of a sexist racist shithead the director of my department is too so that was nice. I can't wait to get a new job in a new industry, emergency preparedness ain't for me. Too much cop energy whole way through.

Otherwise all is going well. Real busy but good overall. Trying to plan vacations next year. Partner finished and submitted her PhD applications and got 4 letters of recommendation all submitted on time. Excited and anxious to see where that goes.