Cool. Nice. Cool. Fall is here. Winter will be along presently. Yesterday started cool and remained cool all day. I did wear shorts, but mainly for the ease of movement. It’s gotta be pretty cold, or I have to be sedentary for me to wear long pants. Today should be nice and cool too. And still the clear sky. We’ll probably get drowned around Halloween…
Spent the day doing little things. Mainly I was poking at the auction stuff, trying different things to get it working. I did have some luck updating software and hardware, but I still can’t get the thing to connect with USB. At it’s heart, it’s windowsXP embedded. I was able to get access to the actual OS, and checked the device manager for USB issues or devices with a yellow triangle and there were no issues. The stupid thing just isn’t looking like a device to the main box… which is one of the reasons I’ve never liked USB. To many ‘smarts’ in the accessory, and no recourse if there is a problem.
Today will be more at home stuff. Probably a little more poking, then mostly outdoor stuff. It would be nice to get some Halloween decor out too.
Or maybe it will be attic stuff.
Dunno, but I’m starting with a later wakeup call.
Speaking of wakeup calls, the news should be full of them for you if you haven’t got stacks. Get some!
nick
In 2020, CA, NY, and IL each lost one seat, two of which went to TX and one to FL.
After reapportionment, what happened next depended on the testicular fortitude of the Governor and Legislature.
The current House majority has been within the four seats which DeSantis delivered with his redistricting maps since January, including the elimination of the special district drawn by the FL Supreme Court in 2016 to the benefit of the Disney company and Demings Orlando political machine.
Meanwhile, both new Texas House seats went to Dems in a “compromise” the “Republicans” engineered with the Dem TX House Speaker.
36F this morning in the high desert, fall is finally here.
The weekend project is to assemble some shelves in the garage, which means cleaning & organizing.
It is really used a workshop, so it should be just tools, supplies, and works in progress, but it has a spring & summers worth of “stuff” cluttering it up.
Sunny, clear and cool here. House is quiet, W and D2 are out, D1 is still asleep. As was I until recently.
Coffee and eggs are down the hatch, and it’s time to get some stuff done.
But first– quick look around the net, and check of auctions.
n
Kmart
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-13978051/retail-chain-closes-size-american-store.html
Surprised they still had an open store.
n
I remember the Kresge 5 and 10 cents store from 75 years ago.
and Ben Franklin
I remembered when we moved from a rural town in California’s Central Valley ca. 1969 we kids were astounded by a K-Mart in the SF East Bay, we were just a bunch of yokels (though the parental units were not).
Similarly we were blown away by the Sunvalley indoor mall: we heard about it, walked the six miles to see it, then walked home.
and TG&Y
We used to have a Ben Franklin store on the main street thru the town I grew up in. Shopped there many times as a kid.
I’m cleaning some shelves that date back to the beginning of the wuflu lockdown. Lots of rotten cans. The fruit ruptured, then the goo leaked down on the other cans and rotted them.
Rats will eat peanut oil. Mostly they chew holes in the jugs just above the “water line” and sip. They don’t love it though, so it will still be there after years, slowly being drained.
The goo also damaged the bottoms of Lysol spray cans, leading to about 10 % loss of cans. Nothing ate the bleach jugs though. And the lysol wipes are fine inside their plastic jars, but the outer plastic overwrap and the plastic labels are disgusting. One flip top bin of sauce packets and similar had water standing in it, which mixed with the sauce powder when the bugs ate holes in the envelopes. The plastic and foil pouches are fine once I wash off the goo.
Roughly $200 spoilage so far.
n
>> As the economy worsens, people will be abandoning pets. Especially big eaters. It’s gonna suck.
Would be tough to abandon any of our pack. We have recently though went down one ‘grade’ of the dog food we get from Costco – more belt-tightening thanks to Kamal-nomics.
Also have pretty much abandoned grocery shopping at the local Albertson’s due to their prices. Wally-Mart and Target now get most of our business, both primarily via free curbside pickup. Plus five percent off for using Target’s ‘Red Card.’
Fingers crossed for the return of OHBM-nomics.
Currently 68 in the low desert, forecasted high of 72 with a low tonight of 47. Yikes.
Oh, and W2 tested positive yesterday for Covid. Ugh.
With friends like this…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13978725/lizzo-america-kamala-harris-wins-donald-trump-election.html
Yeah, not a ringing endorsement…
n
Currently 79F and broken clouds. No sun at the moment.
Still warm if the radiation hits you.
I’m bouncing back and forth between tasks outside. Not super efficient, but working better than sitting at the computer.
n
That was probably a tough piece of real estate for Lampert to move.
Of course, it isn’t as if he’s ever been “the next Warren Buffett” as predicted. I can’t think of commercial real estate which had been handled as poorly as legacy Sears and Kmart.
Thank you Jim Cramer.
>> We used to have a Ben Franklin store on the main street thru the town I grew up in. Shopped there many times as a kid.
I don’t really recall any chain five and dime stores growing up in NYFC. My maternal grandparents lived in rural upstate NY and there I recall an S. S. Kresge, which iirc eventually became KMart.
I remember shopping at the Ben Franklin store with my mother in the late 60’s or early 70’s.
I went off to college in 1972 and it disappeared while i was gone.
Mom always talked about “the 5 and dime”, and she worked in one during WWII.
I remember Woolworth’s and the lunch counter from my younger years.
I feed my dogs Diamond Lamb and Rice. They like it. They seem to do well on it. Yes, it is $43.99 plus tax for a 40 pound bag. I don’t care. It’s good stuff. A bag will last five or six weeks, I guess, never have actually kept track.
The cats (all outside) get the cheap “multi adult house-cat” chow from Tractor Supply. They seem to do fine, the kittens look to be growing like weeds.
It’s quiet today. It seems odd. Not much e-mail or anything happening on blogs. Only a few airplanes flying around. Just about zero traffic noise. The wind chimes tinkle once in awhile.
Abut leaking cans, I’ve had a can, maybe two, of tomato paste seep at the seam that runs down the side of the can. Everything else that has leaked or bulged has been canned fruit.
I put the three newest cans of fruit cocktail in the beerrator yesterday and toted a dozen cans of other canned fruit to the trash. I had a newly bulging can and they were all the same age.
Tomatoes, never a leak. Pineapple, no problems.
I scored from the grocery discount shelves this week: Almost 20 lbs of dried beans. Mostly black beans, but some garbanzos and others.
Got my annual 50-lb box of giant baking potatoes. I’ve been buying from the same vendor for over 20 years. He was in hospital for almost 30 days last spring with RSV virus.
Major auction score this week. Two-thirds high-end material that will be slow to sell. After I take out the stuff to keep, the rest is bits that should sell pretty quickly but require some work to photograph and write listings. Break-even will be quick, and I’m going to put aside some cash for the next auction to bid on those items that were well worth the money, but more than I wanted to invest. Somehow it spends easier when you use profits.
Yeah, I know money is fungible. Dad always ran his antiques sideline off his profits. Wish I could go back to the 60’s and tell him that he would have just as much fun and make more money buying “these here” rather than “those”. 20x appreciation vs. 5x.
ADDED:
After seeing reports of emergency responders going door-to-door in NC asking for Benedryl to treat yellow jacket reactions, the pharmacy at the grocery store had 100 tabs of the generic on closeout for $5, and I bought some as a useful addition to medical supplies.
Another five and dime, Wynn’s. Or Winns. They sold lots of fabric and sewing stuff. Very proto Hobby Lobby. Pretty interesting store.
I bought my two slice Procter-Silex toaster there. The junk mail flyer listed it for $5. On sale from $7. And when you are scraping by sort of mostly ok on $4.50 an hour, well, that’s a heck of a deal. Ok, 1979, maybe 1980.
I could not get waited on… yet they were watching me like I was about to stuff a bunch of stuff in my shirt and run out the door. Folks have said I’m really good looking… I’ve never believed them, but this wasn’t that kind of stare. Well, they had glass display cases and then more stuff on shelves behind the display cases.
So I looked at the toaster in the display case. Read the toaster box as best I could from 4 feet or so away. And lolly gagged waiting for someone to help me. I finally went behind the counter and got a boxed toaster from the shelf and OMG. The way they came unglued was something to see. I think pulling my jeans and underwear down would not have caused as much of a fuss.
I still have that toaster. It still works and looks almost like new. I had to replace the plug about 20 years ago.
Benedryl is cool stuff! I went to feed the cats several years ago and what I took as dirt on the edge of the lid to the feed container, with a bit of thinking “wasn’t like that yesterday”, a 3 and a half inch long scorpion nailed me in the right hand. Big one, 2.5 inches is a big one.
Oh well. Feed the cats. Do some other stuff. It’s warm weather so get a fresh beer. Go in the house and mention the scorpion, show the wound, and say “I have this weird copper/iron taste in my mouth”.
Tell ya what, warm weather, three beers, a scorpion sting and two Benedryl ain’t got nothing on messing with shrooms or acid or coke or tequila all at the same time when in college.
Marine Corps Vet Says Delta Employee Made Her Deplane, Remove Shirt Supporting Her Fellow Veterans
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/10/19/delta-airlines-forced-marine-corps-vet-to-remove-shirt-supporting-veterans-struggling-with-suicide-n2180808
Her attorney should start with:
Terminate the employee and we’ll talk about compensation.
and proceed to:
“Lifetime free business-class travel pass for her and up to 3 others in her group.”
and end with:
“and a check for my fees.”
I bought a bag of Tyson “chicken patties”. Supposedly fully cooked, just heat and eat. They are about 3.5 inches across and about ¾ of an inch thick. Easy to cook in the air fryer, right?
The texture is well, compare a Gorton’s breaded fish fillet, actual fish, to any brand of fish sticks. Flavor? Needs salt and pepper. These are fine for faking Chicken Parmigiana for a passel of starving teens. Melted cheese and spaghetti sauce will cover many sins.
I gave Penny a chunk, about an inch square. She ate it. Because I gave it to her. She didn’t seem to like it. That’s all I need to know.
I’ll try a couple more pieces and if I can’t figure how to make them tasty, I have a lot of cats…
The chicken nuggets in a Banquet TV dinner are better. And yeah, for a $1.25 TV dinner you don’t have high expectations.
When you are dirt poor and down to your last $1.84, those dinners are of the highest expectations. Perspective.
TV dinners were around 60¢ back then. Pricey and not as filling as a box of mac and cheese with a can of tuna dumped in.
Was talking to my auctioneer about being poor. Never knew we were poor, and we mostly weren’t. It just took a while for dad’s pay to catch up when he switched jobs, and he had most of his pay diverted to other things so the take home was a LOT smaller than most people in his position. Still, mom stayed home with us kids until high school, we went on camping vacations, and we always had food.
Mom grew up poor. Tar paper shack poor, if we got the story right. She’s never mentioned it or given details.
Anyhow, I got cut off from the parental money train when I changed majors and went to college out of state. I worked a lot and eventually made good money for a student, and it was cheaper to live back then.
I still ran out of money from time to time.
10c boxes of generic mac n cheese. 33c loaves of white bread. $1 package of the store brand hot dogs. Ramen. God I can’t stand the smell of ramen… Shed Spred because I couldn’t afford margarine. Red Koolaid. Couldn’t afford milk or soda. Onion sandwiches. Sardines on toast because it was the last thing in the cupboard. Potatoes. Lots of fried potatoes. 10c wings and $1 beers on Tues at the Holiday Inn lounge. $5 for dinner and beer. Tipped when I had extra. Didn’t when I was skint. The waitresses understood.
One memorable week I was digging change out of the heat registers in the floor of my single wide hoping to score some 10c wings from the place next door. Took my handful of change in, and the guy gave me a whole bucket that “someone ordered and didn’t pickup”… I ate for two days on that bucket. I hope the guy knows what a difference he made.
Anyway, paychecks came in, debts got collected, and I wasn’t that close to the bone again for a dozen years…
So yeah, I stack food. LOTS of food. It’s easier and better than wishing I had something to eat.
n
Back then? My experience was from 1994, June to be specific. I was down to my last $400 after being laid off in December 1993. No Christmas gifts except for the kid. We ate a lot of cheap meals, rice and beans, Mac and cheese, cheap stuff. Any meat, including Tuna was a luxury that only happened once a week.
I still had a mortgage, two car payments, three credit card bills and a personal loan. I was miserable, worried, not sleeping, wondering how to beg from the MIL. Once I was employed again I made a commitment to become debt free. Somewhere around 2012 I did it. I can now live on VA benefits alone but would be back to TV dinners.
My wISP guy asked me
“So, what would you think of a simple desktop computer you could have, where you could put a DVD in and “dump it” to a file, that you can easily stream on your TV, no internet required, sell the DVD when your done with it? Would that be something that might interest you?”
Well, sort of but not really. I like reading the case, album art!, right? I’m cool with walking across the room to put the disc in the player. Honest There are nice friendly dogs to pet in each direction. And really, how often to you watch a particular movie?
Stream to the TV, how? Via Roku or do I have to piss around with a keyboard and mouse connected to a PC in my living room to watch a movie? Or is there some other app so I can stash the video server elsewhere?
I’m pretty much if the Roku can’t do it, like SlimServer for music via SqueezeBox players, forget it. I’ll keep the physical discs.
those dinners are of the highest expectations.
– I always expected the chicken would have the spine attached and the lung still there. That would always gross me out.
n
Would that be something that might interest you?”
– that’s what I’m doing. I use a free “app” on the Roku to play back on the TV.
I’ve got something ripping right now called season one of “Bunnicula”– which looks like a “spooky” cartoon with Scooby in it and a vampire bunny… I might play them in my attic window for the next few nights…
n
This talking about “being poor” is cool.
Benadryl? I buy generic double-strength benadryl capsules for a bottle of a thousand for $24.50. WAY better than blister packs of 25mg tablets at 10X the price.
https://www.amazon.com/DIPHENHYDRAMINE-CP-50MG-SDA-Size/dp/B001KY9H36/ref=sr_1_2?crid=KJMWZ7AQQCXJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6WmIIMpSxw2AN6lQP0-wRElzFzKZs5S_Qe8FRephlpxEnKsGUrlUJcwJssGoY272LiaR5Ypa6ktDJO6-WM26GjS4IXHep_2gY80glAW_ClSaNdX0R2F97BslHyx65jrz_YW4_DgQWlWPAEFuiY8yWKzKvy3gL9KQIo7Tf17dOmzhTrRSojVoT97Prk4fzWmAau_FvVKmvL3kzMsV8WyCtGAlZDLVJ_v0qxY4u4O9cSg.2l8rIFOVIGLCQI3X2Mo988OST5iOBxzx_wkK4F_1emU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Diphenhydramine+HCl+50mg&qid=1729385088&sprefix=diphenhydramine+hcl+50mg%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-2&tag=ttgnet-20
And a can of mushrooms! Delicious low-cost food. I still fix that occasionally when I’m feeling nostalgic.
I made some Stove Top Stuffing to go with the pork chops tonight. That was a go to for me, because I could make as little or as much as I wanted.
n
Now, I may have cheated a bit. I had a job at I-Hop. Night shift. Bussing tables and washing dishes. They deducted lunch from your pay, so really, be nice to the cooks, keep their glass of tea or soda filled, and you would get double fillings on your ham and cheese omelet. And when you’re 22 and always starving, well.
It was a brand new I-Hop. At Ohlen and Research (aka us183). Fran hired a lot of folks. Like six guys for night shift. She wasn’t going to hire me because “I had some college”. I talked her into hiring me and after a month, of the six guys hired to bus tables on the night shift, it was just me. Seven days a week.
I did that job for almost a year. It was interesting watching the not sober folks come in when the bars closed. Some would give the waitress all kinds of shit, just for being there and a minute slow of refilling the coffee cup. They never gave me any flack. Some of the “where’s my food” noise makers I’d wander by with the coffee pot and say “there’s just two guys in the kitchen cooking, ok? Look how many folks are here.” I just puttered around doing bus boy stuff. Sometimes I’d get the coffee pot and top folks up. It seemed the thing to do.
The waitresses did not share their tips. I got a $20 tip once, yeah, they did all of the glasses of tea upside down and dumped the salt and pepper shakers. That waitress wanted her “share”. Yeah, no.
It was a fun job most of the time.
Then I found a new job that paid $5.50 an hour, six days a week, and 5% commission on what you sell. Commission was cash. Yeah, I seemed to have a knack for selling stuff to folks in an adult book store. I wasn’t even shaving yet but for mustache wisps. Oh, and I could “give them a deal” by discounting the prices. For example, magazines went for $12.50 each. Hey, buy 10 and I can knock the price down to $10 each, buy a few more and I can go to $8 each.
So $5.50 for 48 hours and about the same in cash. Sweet.
I was never poor, I won’t claim to be, and the only time I felt poor was when I was clinically depressed due to my marital trauma.
But the depression worked a number on me, for sure. I was once a survivalist (before “prepper” was cool), and so I had krugerrands and a full pantry when I got fired from my job. I remained unemployed for over a year, and kept up my mortgage payments from savings and sold krugerrands until I found work.
During that time, I had to teach myself how to cook. It turns out a full pantry is not as helpful as you might think, if you stock the wrong things and if you don’t know how to use what you have.
After all that, I learned how to make a variety of foods you wouldn’t catch me choosing today. High carb stuff with lots of beans, rice, pasta, and bread.
One of the dishes I developed was my attempt to re-create my mom’s high carb winter comfort food. Ham and bean soup with spoon-dropped dumplings. Eaten with half a loaf of French bread.
Today’s food, OTOH, was cream in my morning coffee, follwed by a 3 egg French omelet, with a side of ground beef, yogurt, and a handful of pistachios in the shell. That breakfast was about 6 PM.
The nuts may be a mistake, but I had them handy.
Learning how to cook is a really big deal. Decent cookware makes a HUGE difference.
The year is 1969, USAF, Langley AFB. Take home pay was $140 a month. Cost to fly home, and return, $147.00 at 50% military standby rate. That $140 did not go far. I did have food and housing. If I chose to do nothing I could get by. I still had to buy personal hygiene products, pay to have my uniform cleaned, pay for the weekly haircut. More than once I would go for a week with less than $5.00 in the checking account. There were many days I had zilch to spend. I made it work.
Yeah, having a bunch of buckets full of bulk doesn’t put meals on the table. That’s one of the reasons I think in “meals” not ‘calories” when I am stacking. Who really cares how many calories of wheat flour you have? It’s how many loaves of bread, or tortillas that is the important thing.
Each can is one meal side dish for 2-4 people…
Ditto 2 cups of rice…
Converting to calories is like converting to dollars, it’s a convenient way to compare similar but different items. Less useful when it comes to actually eating though.
n
The Simple Fools Handbook to Cooking – out of print but a great choice for a college bound teen with no cooking experience.
The Joy of Cooking – get a pre- 1975 version, you won’t be nagged about sugar, salt, and fat, and the recipes will use butter without apologies. Available at every estate sale, most yard sales, used book stores, and ebay. This book will TEACH you to cook, from simple to complex. IMHO, the only “real” cookbook you need.
A Man, A Can, and A Plan – use the cans you stacked.
Best Recipes from the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Jars (Hardcover) use the stuff you have stacked in the best possible way.
added – I refer to Joy a couple of times a month. I still occasionally get out my Simple Fool’s…
and I have a folder with the tabs to hold three hole punched sheets for recipes we use all the time. Only recipes we use and will use again get copied or printed and added to that folder/report cover.
n
Ah, 1969. Right out of Boot Camp, I was at the Navy Training Center in Millington, TN, just north of Memphis. Yeah that was about what an E2 made back then. About ⅔ of the students were Navy, with the rest Marines.
To prevent, or at least reduce, fights, they paid on alternate Thursdays; Navy people got paid one Thursday, Marines got paid the next Thursday. It worked out pretty well. On Navy paydays, I’d lend $5 to a Marine friend, and the next week on Marine payday, he’d pay me back. So we always had at least $5 to go into Memphis on the weekend.
From FEMA TC Helene
Situation: Locally executed, state managed, and federally supported operations continue.
Lifelines: (TC Helene & Milton SLB, as of 6:00 p.m. ET, Oct 18)
Safety & Security:
▪ FL: Mandatory evacuations continue in Manatee County; Voluntary
evacuations continue in Hernando, Lake, Miami-Dade, Pasco, and
Sumter counties
▪ NC: Federal ESF-4 support continues
Food, Hydration, Shelter:
▪ FL: 13 shelters / 631 (-168) occupants (TC Milton)
▪ FL: 7 shelters / 307 (+1) occupants (TC Helene)
▪ GA: 2 shelters / 88 (-2)occupants
▪ NC: 12 shelters / 520 (-7) occupants
▪ TN: Washington County is opening warming centers for local
communities
Health & Medical:
▪ NC: 95 confirmed fatalities
Water Systems:
▪ FL: 16 Active Boil Water Notices affecting 14k customers (TC
Helene); 157 (-8) active Boil Water notices affecting 391k (-48k)
customers (TC Milton); wastewater system assessments ongoing
▪ GA: 197 Active Boil Water Notices; restoration ongoing
▪ NC: 26 (-4) Active Boil Water Notices affecting 195k (-4k)
customers; restoration ongoing
▪ TN: 1 (-1) Active Boil Water Notices
Energy:
▪ No significant power outages to report
Communications:
▪ GA: Communication is intermittent throughout the state but
improving
▪ NC: FEMA communications resources are supporting western NC
▪ TN: 2% (-1%) of cellular sites down across the impacted area
Transportation:
▪ NC: 508 (-7) roads closed: 2 Interstates, 36 (+1) US routes, 40 state routes, and 430 (-8)
secondary routes
▪ TN: 19 sections of state/local routes remain closed; 6 bridges remain closed
— note the boil water and roads closed…
n
Cut the grass in the back yard.
Cleaned cans and rat poop off some external shelves. I’ve been scrubbing them with dish soap, degreaser, and undiluted Simple Green. They’re still a mess.
Set up the FIFO can racks in the metal cabinet but didn’t move all the cans yet.
Added more hardware cloth wire to the garage attic and soffit. Hope that keeps the possum out of the house attic.
Moved some stuff around.
So I got some stuff done, but not the big things.
n
Had lunch with a bunch of church friends today. The general consensus is that Harris is a total fake and a communist. Harris claims to be SBC but she blew that Thursday when she belittled a Christian protestor.
One friend of mine said that she was not going to vote this year but changed her mind and is planning to vote for Trump. She likes what Dave Ramsey said, we are not electing a pastor, we are electing a strong leader to protect and lead the USA.
Harris’s numbers are crashing.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
>> As the economy worsens, people will be abandoning pets. Especially big eaters. It’s gonna suck.
Would be tough to abandon any of our pack. We have recently though went down one ‘grade’ of the dog food we get from Costco – more belt-tightening thanks to Kamal-nomics.
Go watch “The Boys In The Boat” movie. The Depression scenes will break your heart at the tough decisions that people were having to make.
This talking about “being poor” is cool.
Being “poor” in the USA is rich compared to the stories from our church’s missionaries in Uganda and Haiti. Those are incredibly unreal.
Also my father-in-law’s stories of growing up in Appalachia in upper state New York during the Depression. The scary thing was all the random bank closings for a week or more until WWII started. When one of the four dairy cows died and they could not replace it even though they were selling raw milk to the neighbors twice a day, delivered with a horse and wagon. So their family got shorted on milk but they ate the meat all winter long between nine people.
My Dad got tired of being a professor at OU so he quit in 1968 and started an engineering company. The first year was great and he bought a new house and a new car. The project ended and he went looking for more projects. None to be found in Oklahoma. By then we lost the house and the new car by not making payments for several months. We moved back to Texas and in with my grandparents in Lake Jackson in Jan 1970.
Dad was driving our old Ford station wagon between Houston and Lake Jackson, 50 miles each way at 10 or 12 times a week, and the engine died in 1971. I’ll bet that old wagon is still parked in my uncle’s pasture in Iago. So my grandfather gave us his new Ford station wagon. We totaled that in Navasota in 1972 when a young Aggie hit us, neither of us had insurance. The young Aggie’s mother died in the wreck. I got my leg broke in the crash and my brother had surgery to reconnect a vein in his stomach. No insurance. The Navasota doctor charged my Dad $200 to fix us up.
But we never went hungry. Or without shelter. And Dad got enough work after a year to rent the house down the street. Then the five of us moved into a two bedroom 1 bath house in Houston. Then Dad bought a house, so on and so forth.
A colleague told me about her mother, who lived through hard times in late WW II Germany. Fortunate families had enough to buy or barter for the “hare“ with oddly sharp incisors (cat), and slightly less fortunate got ”squirrel” (rat).
I have been blessed not to know such hardship as that, or as some of you describe. Nick’s “ordered but not picked up” wings brought me to tears, some of them for the kindness of that act. I am glad that you could all put those days of scarcity behind you. Long may it remain so.
Attention, timesink.
This is brilliant. Somebody collected fascinating obituaries as an English-language resource for teachers. They will suck you in…
The problem with sleeping in a bit is then not being ready to go to sleep on time. Compound that with youtube shorts and I’m up at 230 instead of in bed.
I closed the tab with the shorts, and I’m forcing myself away from Denis’ link…
Bed is calling, and this time I will pick up…
n