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@crystalwilliams.bsky.social
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Native Texan in Berkeley. Incident Manager/SRE. Mama. Likes walks, good food, live music, open source, and security.

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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Everyone knew someone from one the popular bands and almost inevitably from something related to a church youth group somehow? Everyone had a “Tim from Tripping Daisy” story.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
My parents were convinced I was going to be shot every single time I went. I definitely got into shows I was clearly underage for. Everything was gross. It was great and I also miss it.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
That makes more sense. Yes, the adjacency clears this up. I thought they were one of the bands that didn’t really escape Deep Ellum scene.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Ok, I’ll bite. You were not a teenager in DFW in the 90s, why do you have a Hagfish sticker?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
One batch of banana bread for the boxes and one for us for the week and we’ll box ‘em up!
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Next up are these impressively gingery ginger snaps that I’ve made enough to actually use a full bottle of molasses before expiration www.seriouseats.com/the-best-gin...
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The Best Gingersnaps
With two types of ginger, these cookies are complex and spicy, but mellowed by earthy sweet molasses and the graham-y whole wheat flour. The burn of raw ginger will mellow in the oven as the dough bak...
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Rounding out the chocolate delegation with a classic chocolate chip. I wouldn’t usually do a new recipe for a gift but I have great faith in Sally. sallysbakingaddiction.com/chewy-chocol...
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Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (Popular Recipe!) - Sally's Baking
These ultra soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies have readers raving about the recipe. And the best part is you don't even need a mixer!
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Next up was two boxes of Ghirardelli dark chocolate brownies because you’re not going to improve on that.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Dough for this is first up cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023... I loved the concept of the 6 different cookies from one dough from a couple of years back. I made half of them, but this is the one I kept in the repertoire
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Strawberry Jam Bars With Cardamom Recipe
These sandwich bars are a delightful mix of textures and flavors The preference here is a red fruit jam for its acidic pop, but you can go with any jam you have on hand The nuts give an additional cru...
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Buckle up. It’s cookie box time.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Aspirational!
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are in peak “I know you’re busy, but…” season.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This message brought to you by our music selection.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The fact that the 90s is to our kids what the 50s was to me and my spouse is a continuous assault on the brain.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Me: “I have a plan to get up, get ready, make breakfast, do chores, leave house by 7:15” Second Child: “I constructed a Rube Goldberg machine to make it impossible to open my dresser drawers”
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It’s 9:15 and my children are only mildly purple now. Happy K-Pop Demon Huntersween to all the other moms taking down a dragon braid on a sugar high kid right now.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Was that marker a washable marker? “Ugh, mom, ALL markers are washable”. Halloween 2025 may be full of lessons.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Internet is haunted today and I’m going home.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The colors of the sky, hills, and plants in the Bay Area in October is positively unreal and every year I lament that I can’t take the whole month off to wander SF and hike in Big Sur.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
You sent your niece a Decemberists poster for Christmas
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Shoot, I’ve only seen one of you in person at a time so can’t rule it out.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Baby’s first “the math is broken”.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I got to field the first encounter last night of “MOM!! This problem has no end, it just keeps going”
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Well that was a good jolt
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
My stars it’s like the back of the Observer in 1996
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Modest Mouse was a different show same venue this summer. The Greek really stacked the nostalgia acts this summer, but we’re going to see Big Thief in a couple of weeks there.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We just saw the Pixies at the Greek a couple of weeks ago so definitely not judging.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Omg what decade is it?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Anyhow, have fun! That’s such a nostalgic marquee!
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It was before Wes died, I’m thinking 1998 or so and I think the Curtain Club.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Wow. They are still playing? Everyone I knew in high school had a Tim story. I think I was at the last Tripping Daisy show ( it was at least very near the end)
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It’s a special kind of broken
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I hear that. I hired some great folks in Berlin and it’s the main reason I’m not just dead by now.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Good lord we made four different kinds of beans from four different cuisines today.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
4am is not a good hour. I know that one all too well.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Absolutely. There but for the grace of god.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.bart.gov/sites/defaul...
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
From flapping while installing new switch?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Why no rollback?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Spanning tree issue
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I can’t wait www.lightinthebox.com/p/kpop-demon...
lightinthebox.com
KPop Demon Hunters Morrigan Sajo Blue Tiger Halloween Mask Halloween Props Carnival Mardi Gras Easy Halloween Costumes Dress Up 2025 - $25.99
I like this. Do you think I should buy it?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If the redistricting mess isn’t the best argument for the popular vote, I don’t know what is.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
In addition to being a GenX fest, the gender ratio at this show is somewhere between tech conference and Rush concert.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Let’s start taking bets on what bands will do the casino circuit. Also, why are there people under 40 at this Pixies show?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
My poor husband sent me a lovely FT article on James Sanborn on.ft.com/45Eu37h and is now unwittingly roped into watching Elonka Dunin’s Defcon12 talk on it (I was at this one and was fascinated) before breakfast. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3p...
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Jim Sanborn has a secret
The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Go to great lengths to be a solid partner with legal, audit/compliance, and red team. Not always easy, but very much worth it to be on their good side.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Oof. And also, same.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A good rule of thumb is to never have too many direct reports that you can’t have a cookie for each performance review you finish.
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Hold on… bacterial infection and no one has dropped Bad Blood here yet?
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ccg @crystalwilliams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
That sucker’s not going anywhere.
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