01: the story of your hot pot - Gretchen and I attend a PCRM event in Manhattan.
02: behind the Trader Joe's - A reasonable place for having a videoconference on the road.
03: obeying the simple laws of physics - Having trouble with the dated conceit of Westworld.
04: the correct regularity - Scales on a snake.
05: unlike the other depressing things happening in the world - Why I don't freak out when there's another problem with our rental property or I learn my vision is growing worse with each passing year.
06: a lot funnier and more hopeful - Post-apocalyptic vs. dystopic.
07: standards of the current television golden age - Westworld still does not qualify.
08: copper pipes out of the walls of America - Another bad-Trump day; imagining those keptocrats in charge, playing the media like a fiddle while scrapping everything of value.
09: improvised ballsiness - A description of how I get our on-demand content via craptastic DSL.
10: the everpresent threat of consequence-free violence - A canceled dinner party and falling asleep while watching an episode of Westworld.
11: nothing worth thinking about - Kombucha at ShopRite and choking down the last episode of Westworld.
12: mice in the spice cabinet - They hadn't been there before. Also, watching the 1973 original version of Westworld.
13: bok choy somehow melted - A good meal at the end of a stressful day.
14: beetle on a bank card - Kratom leads to another tiny painting.
15: not expecting gravity to have a repulsive quality - When debugging is hard because the rules are unexpected.
16: video party - An obsessively-painted lizard and a video holiday party.
17: might start having some assimilation problems - The awfulness of Reagan, Muslims in Europe, and how long you have to wait after drinking a beer before you can fly a commercial jet.
18: cheerful enthusiasm and semi-intelligible banter - A power outage leads to Chinese food.
19: detour into an alternative universe - The news takes on a coldly cinematic Kubrickian quality.
20: rooting for a dead woman - A dead woman continues to accumulate money on the show we watch mostly while eating dinner.
21: code resembling geological formations - Coding on ambien when all you can really see is the indentations.
22: just an accident of my technique - A tiny painting of a Turkish assassin somehow gets another gun. Also, watching God Bless America.
23: better than lame-o hippie hot sauce - I deliberately leave a bottle of good hot sauce at the vegan restaurant in Woodstock.
24: attractive nuisance at the West Hurley Park - Why I had to carry Neville across a treacherous frozen puddle.
25: Jewish Christmas, 2016 - Slow Chinese food and a goofy movie.
26: reticulate menorah II - Eleven years later, I make another one and kind of hate doing it.
27: like something made from Lego - Regarding my magnificent menorah the next day. And answering technical questions while drunk.
28: there aren't many creatures - Not according to the record left in the snow.
29: further tooth erosion - Another lemon-seed-sized chunk of my right top wisdom tooth breaks loose. And secret santa via videoconference.
30: .RTF, WTF? - Learning another technology I don't want to learn. And a prisoner comes to visit.
31: neither 2016 nor the arrival of 2017 - A glum New Year's Eve in the cusp between two bad years.