I’m good at it. But, at the same time, I live in a pretty diverse area and I’ve met plenty of people who are clearly not super comfortable with it. So it’s an interesting balancing act to do it enough to be showing respect but not so much that I creep them out. Mostly I take my cues from their own eye contact levels.

I just finished the third book in a trilogy that I thought was kind of mediocre. But I thought the first book was good; it’s just that the last two didn’t live up to it. The ending was okay, but the middle was a mess. Wish I’d just read a summary now but whatever, it’s behind me.

Copycat recipe

When we moved into our house, we had two cats and kept finding mouse droppings. (The house had been flipped after belonging to a hoarder.) Lived there for two months and the cats did nothing and we still had mice. Got a dog and suddenly no more mice…

Surprised they made it that long. I guess a kid would complicate breaking up.

Knitter here. I’m literally making clothes! Yes a sweater takes months but you know… also good for meetings.

Sorbet!

Am I reading correctly that nothing is wrong with them except the tread is worn down? See if there is a shoe repair shop near you. Cobblers can usually replace tread. That way you’re not falling whim to capitalism, keeping something out of the landfill, and you don’t have to break in a new pair.

Haha I have, at least if I’m thinking of the right thing, the YouTube video? He stretches a few (my degrees are in music theory so I can hear what he means and not all of them are exactly the same chord progressions) but I feel seen nonetheless.

Yeah, I feel for the string players, honestly. Especially the ones who take wedding gigs.

Gonna go against the grain here with something classical: Pachabel’s Canon in D. I liked it when I was a kid, for at least the first 10 or 20 times I heard it, but since then I’ve probably heard it thousands of times, and I’m not even a strings player. I’m not exaggerating either; it’s in so many commercials, weddings, movies, just over loudspeakers in the grocery store… ugh it’s inescapable. Pretty the first few times, sure, but it’s so aggressively bland.

lol we have jeans with zipper flies too. Wearing some right now!