Marcus King ROCKS and he is not good looking. Charismatic as fuck on stage too.
I think there is about the same proportion of good music to bad as there ever was, you just don’t hear the bad music of the past because it didn’t last. Survival bias, I think it’s called.
The library lends e-books, I have had good luck with their selections. I try not to buy books and still end up with more of them than I want. Mostly because I like graphic novels on paper.
The people who sell the lifestraws are helping to provide them to Gaza, hopefully they can get them in.
Oh yes please! Move to Russia. Can easily keep denying climate change and live in the authoritarian system they prefer. Let all these guys move there, they can make up for all the men Putin killed in his stupid war with Ukraine.
Well eventually you will get old enough that the women in your age group will be through menopause, maybe then you can get back in there.
I had kids when I got together with my now-husband and he did too, and I had a history of literally falling pregnant each of the times I didn’t use birth control, so he was vasectomized AND I had IUD put in, together this was as good as science can do now and it worked perfectly. Vasectomy can regrow but IUD is very reliable.
I guess if sex isn’t important to you then enjoy, or if you can enjoy sex with men that would also be 100% no chance of pregnancy. But for me, it’s such a wonderful part of life, letting fear rule it seems bad.
Twelve is such a great number. So divisible.
At least be intentional about it. I buy personal care products and sometimes whole bottles are shrink-wrapped, WTF? Others just have a better design so they can be shipped safely. Some vitamins/medicines have the caps with plastic wrap to show they haven’t been opened but also the plastic and foil inside. Why can’t I bring back my medicine bottle and have them use the same one, or just give me the medicine in a paper envelope and I can fill the bottle, I don’t NEED another bottle!
I don’t know about ALL but there are a lot that could be eliminated without any impact on anyone except maybe the people who make the plastic.
Te amo.
Nos vemos.
The top two are not too far out, the Spanish is similar - “you I love” “see us”. Be right back is so weird in English but funnier in Spanish, ya vuelvo, sounds like “I am already back”
I worked at a restaurant where the waiters were unionized and they did make plenty of money.
I wouldn’t waitress but if I did have a lot of money I would love to run a small bar & tapas place, our neighborhood needs a corner bar and my inclination is towards creative food and drinks, I like doing that stuff. Just can’t afford to.
And honestly that’s part of the issue - sure the top is too bloated but the bottom not vibrant enough. More people making enough money as entrepreneurs would also help with inequality.
Beans and rice. (Red beans and rice, black beans and rice, garbanzo beans in curry on rice, you can make probably a hundred delicious variations on beans and rice)
A can of pureed pumpkin and a can of white beans with seasoning and a little chicken broth, heated and blended, makes a healthy and delicious soup.
A can of tomatoes, an onion, a couple dried Chiles and a can of pinto beans also makes an incredible pureed soup.
Up until recently I’d have said eggs and toast, but eggs are expensive lately. Still probably under $5 to feed 4 though.
We bought a frozen turkey cheap after Christmas and my God that made so many meals, I still have 3 quarts of stock too.
I don’t think a frozen pizza is a good deal in terms of nutrition but we do sometimes have that or the Little Caesars one if I can’t cook that night.
None of us are fat, husband is overweight but fit, and the rest of us are on the thin side.
Trees don’t need to be watered here after they are established, nor do they need fertilizer (and we aren’t really supposed to use much fertilizer here because it gets washed into the bay). I went to the tree giveaway last year and they had people height (5-6 foot) trees of several varieties, nothing exotic or invasive. You had to sign up ahead of time. We got 2 red maples and advice on how to plant them, and had to give details in the sign up on our address and where they would go (backyard, front yard, side). It’s a great program, but the old old trees keep getting cut down for construction. Apparently it’s pretty easy to get permission even though they are supposed to be protected Grand Oaks.
I navigate using cardinal directions but don’t think I have an internal compass. Had a friend who literally did. You could blindfold her, spin her around a bunch of times then say point north and she could. I live now on a diagonal street, for the first time, and it’s honestly difficult for my mind. It took a stupid long time for me to accept that the CORNERS pointed north, south, east and west.
I cannot navigate by right and left, they change depending on which way you are facing. Have messed this up more times than I want to admit on one way roads. Also can’t read maps unless I stand facing north. The cell phone orienting the map so that the way I am facing is up on the screen has been life changing for me.
East, West, North and South, they stay put while I move around in them. Left and Right I can do but have to think about it. Every dance instructor or yoga teacher I’ve had had given up and started giving directions like “toward the mirror”, “toward the door”, “toward the street”.
I say this as someone who had lots of kids - you cannot build an economy on a continuous explosion of population. That is ridiculous. There are enough people - the population of the earth has more than doubled in my lifetime. I’d much rather work till I die, than tell someone else they must reproduce. Let people who want kids have them, let people who don’t want kids not have any, it’s working out and population growth has slowed and hopefully population will decrease. That’s fine, yes many of us will be old at once, that’s not the fault of the non-reproducing people. There wouldn’t be fewer old people even if everyone had kids, it has to happen before things settle back out.
I’m southern with family from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas and chili is all about the beans. I call chili with chiles, beans and tomatoes “Chili” and if I make it with beans, chiles, tomatoes and meat (stew meat never hamburger) “Meat Chili”. Would take chili with beans & corn over chili without beans any day of the week.
Chili with hamburger without beans is something to put on a hot dog or bun. Not a meal, it’s like hamburger helper nonsense.
ETA: this is not to say I’ve never made stew meat in Chile sauce. Cubed brisket finished in sauce of anchos and tomatillos is heavenly. I just never call that chili.
Yes agreed. The Nest hub, and the rest of the stuff in our network right now, knows who is talking to it. I’d not upgrade or side-grade yet just to get something I can take off the dock.
I had the original Pixel & just recently it started failing so I got the pixel 5. I like them, they are basic and good quality and small enough to hold easily. Compared to my previous Samsung phone and husband’s current Galaxy phone I find it feels cleaner and faster, not as many pre-installed apps. Yes it has all the Google services installed, but I use those and it has not all the Samsung/T-mo stuff on top of that like the Galaxy does.
In general it does everything I want and nothing I don’t want but agree the default text app not being SMS is stupid. RCS should be opt-in, sometimes texts to the husband don’t get delivered even though both phones support the protocol.
My short hair bisexual daughters are actually both with skinny guys that are about their height, not tall. Like, they can swap clothing size guys.