davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

One of the (very, very many) things that suck about losing your mom before forty is that I remember almost nothing about my own daily life prior to high school. And because my parents were divorced and I only got to see dad for a few weeks in the summer every year, there’s nobody I can ask. I have two sons and am constantly writing (and printing) notes and reminders for them, like, “You loved to eat oatmeal with blueberries and pineapple every morning for breakfast in my forty-two year-old Empire Strikes Back cereal bowl until you were six and decided that you hate oatmeal.” Or, “If you want to make pancakes the right way you have to use the frying pan with the blue enamel.” I would probably collapse in a puddle if I ever found even a single note like this from mom. She was a writer and left hundreds of notebooks and thousands of loose pages of things. She wrote me cards and letters nearly daily from the day I left for college until shortly before she died, but sadly I’ve never found anything along those lines.

I’ve been on hold waiting to talk to someone at Tesla support for twenty minutes now.

I saw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny last night and absolutely loved it. I thought it was a fantastic film and was very satisfied. Five stars.

It’s a little disconcerting that it’s impossible to stream the ABC 1982-1983 series Tales of the Gold Monkey. What kind of world is this?

Fifty pages into The Wager by David Grann (threads / bluesky) and can’t imagine a better dad summer beach read.

I wish I could toggle whether read receipts are enabled in Messages on a per conversation basis.

Would absolutely pay top dollar for a Zack Snyder director’s cut of all 10+ hours of this season’s Vanderpump Rules Reunion Make it happen, Andy!

Hot Tub Time Machine is seriously underrated.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

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Hemingway

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