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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 30/09/2026

I love and hate when TV shows use my favorite songs because it's usually only five seconds of them. Related: The New Basement Tapes' version of "When I Get My Hands on You" is a great track even when I only heard four bars of it in a season-four episode of Ted Lasso.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 29/09/2026

I get it, Claude. My sleep habits suck.

The Claude UI greets me with the message "Hey, early bird"

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 28/09/2026

Judging by the way he aggressively vaults up his tree… I think my morning wake-up dance party may give my cat the zoomies.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 28/09/2026

For posterity. Since I finally did it.

I definitely am NOT from Oklahoma. But close.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 24/09/2026

After crying on a call with my manager from stress and exhaustion, she told me to give myself a break later and "not work late into the evening." And I know she meant well, but I definitely heard, "Get some rest because we still require more of you!"

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 22/09/2026

For the first time when booking travel to the corporate headquarters, the painfully hip boutique hotel (my catnip) is cheaper than the Embassy Suites.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 20/09/2026

Somehow managed to use all my tokens at Fremont Oktoberfest.

Never a great idea to celebrate prematurely, but I did it anyway. Premature Celebration beer from Dirty Couch Brewing.

Not pictured: the bonus 6th token I also consumed.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 18/09/2026

No matter how many times I yell at my cat to “Be chill!” … he is not, in fact, chill.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 18/09/2026

This is good to know, because I have some sitting in my Schmamazon cart right now!

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 16/09/2026

I bought a dental vacuum forming machine. Which is a totally normal thing to own, so stop looking at me like that.

My new vacuum former. He’s decently heavy for a lil’ guy.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 16/09/2026

Some days I feel creative and strategic. And some days I just babysit GitHub Copilot and hit "Allow" every so often.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 16/09/2026

They haven't been open long, but I know they did a Fountain Pen 101 class recently and will probably do it again. And JetPens sells a fountain pen starter kit that's perpetually out of stock, but I think you can get notified when it comes back. It's a somewhat-affordable way to try several at once.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 16/09/2026

Have you been to The Outpost in Pioneer Square?

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 14/09/2026

Met a very handy older gentleman yesterday who, on their anniversary every year, makes his wife a Queen of Hearts. Every year in a different style or form factor, but every year the Queen of Hearts. It may have been the most romantic thing I'd ever heard.

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 13/09/2026

Texas scored the game's final 21 points in a second-half comeback to shock No. 1 Ohio State. bit.ly/46nMcXJ

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 11/09/2026

I love that school has started again in Seattle and I can hear the kids on the playground during recess while I work. I love the sounds of life going on that aren't just street traffic.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 08/09/2026

I wonder how much they paid to make their car look like shit.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 05/09/2026

Having just finished watching the two seasons of Castle Rock, my only vision of Maine is as the setting for lots of horror.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 31/08/2026

Very helpful voice message from the Safeway Pharmacy about my vaccination appointment this afternoon.

Apple Watch screen with a voice mail transcription reading “It’s like, oh, they’re dog.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says RFK Jr. offered federal help after two unvaccinated people died from measles, the first U.S. deaths this year. Shapiro declined, saying PA could handle it, and confronted Kennedy, telling him: “There’s real life consequences to spreading misinformation.”

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 20/08/2026

My new method for handling no-longer-needed Post-it notes is both catharsis and modern art.

Stabbing my notes with a spike is the path to healing.

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 13/08/2026

But where were the bungee cords attached?

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 12/08/2026

Went to one of those "fill out a survey and meet a group of total strangers for dinner!" events and the same two people I thought were cool also thought *I* was cool. Am I making new friends and overcoming my social awkwardness?? Maybe!

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Julie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 10/08/2026