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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • We had a convo about what we want. It really helped.

    We have an apartment in a nice island of walkability a ways out of town. It’s beautiful but pricy. We have very little extra space.

    We dont give gifts; we give experiences. Here’s a spa day for the trip we’re saving up for next year. Can we take the gondola up to the top of the hill for that fancy-pants restaurant your mum wanted to try? Do you remember that spashy canal ride at the animal sanctuary we did the one time, and we almost lost our keys? The adorable kids “selling shells” at Yelapa? How about the whale watching where all we saw was COVID from the borrowed all-weather gear?? Ha ha ha, that sucked.

    Memories store well. Pictures of chichen itza, the gondola at Benalmedana, the CN tower, the NYC WoW, they take up so little space - and the last one’s gone now - and they mean so much.

    Give experiences, even if all they do is affirm the plan that you’re going to Disneyland next spring, hell or high water. I think they reinforce familial bonds and get people out of their living rooms and into climbing gear or even just a shared breakfast where they can laugh and tease and make new memories.




  • I can get free shooty-pow-pow time while being paid?

    Where do I sign?

    Hey, look. The King already inherited the oath I swore the Queen, so I know I’m on some list somewhere; some of my peers too. It’s a shitty club, but maybe I can get something out of membership.

    And, truth be told, Russia and China aren’t our biggest invasion concern. Get me upgraded on the C14 and if I can’t use a rock to get a C7 emulant from an invader, I’ll have other uses.



  • Ah, Webster – the guy who rewrote American and the Dictionary that first equated Figurative with Literal.

    It’s logically unsound.

    Remembering that Dictionaries don’t tell you what’s right, only what’s popular at best, and that Webster is about the worst there, It’s not a great reference. And if we trusted the mob to decide how to spell and pronounce words, you and I would be MUCH better at the head-wobble – popularity as a mechanism for evolution would have refactored a LOT of pronunciation and spelling a while ago.

    The abbreviation of “until” is " 'til ". I know this because it’s an abbreviation, and “until” doesn’t have two Ls.