This thread makes me think of Hamm's, the beer refreshing.
Yes, that cartoon bear has led many a man to sin and destruction.
Not as many as the Charmin cartoon bear, but enough.
I don't think I've ever been to Minneapolis, except the airport.
Yes. But only Delta goes there from here.
You'd think Delta would make triangles.
2: I thought this was a coded reference to Winnie the Pooh, i.e. Chairman Xi. Has there been a thread about Hong Kong protests and crackdowns on the media that report on them? Should there be? It's weird to see my hobby (or even a somewhat-related game run by the same company, Blizzard) in the news. It's not just them; apparently Apple is also helping the crackdown. Creepy stuff.
2: I thought this was a coded reference to Winnie the Pooh, i.e. Chairman Xi. Has there been a thread about Hong Kong protests and crackdowns on the media that report on them? Should there be? It's weird to see my hobby (or even a somewhat-related game run by the same company, Blizzard) in the news. It's not just them; apparently Apple is also helping the crackdown. Creepy stuff.
I sent in a thing on the NBA.
Did they do something to Cleveland again?
They took a stand on principle. I don't know if Cleveland was involved.
If that's it, then we can assume not.
The flour museum in Minneapolis is one of my favorite museums.
It's not even one of my favorite flour museums.
If they're going to give a display to self-rising flour as if it's not an abomination.....
I should visit Minneapolis this spring. I have nearby relatives and could see the Spam Museum too.
Okay, what's the best flour museum? Srsly.
What struck me was how similar everything looks to Mossburg in the same period. Did new build look the same everywhere? Just Anglosphere? Just New World?
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Upon arrival in the port of Veracruz, she and her sister were attacked by--I swear I'm not making this up--bedbugs (at least, according to one colorful online biography).
I don't really want to learn more about any NYT columnist, so I'm going to use the power of inductive reasoning to fill in the details about that.
I actually haven't spent too much time in the flour museum, but zomg11, they have an amazing gift shop. Like, if you like baking *at all* you should stop in when you're in MPLS. It's right by the new Guthrie too, in case you are making that scene.
In my head, the bedbugs had knives and were still mad about the European occupation.
The Russian Art Museum here also has an amazing gift shop, plus neat exhibits. Currently they've got someone doing that climbing-around-on-ribbons thing that I should know the name of, and the piece is about Baba Yaga.
No but the bit about his grandmother is pretty great. It is significantly more interesting than... well, the lives of most people's grandmothers, I suppose.
So, I've been trying to not drink at all because that's what the blood pressure people say. But, today I had two ciders (thank you, Vermont) and now I got the lowest blood pressure reading I've had since I started checking. Like, low enough that they probably won't want to me take medication until I'm older. I'm going back to drinking, but trying not to drink so much I get gastritis again.
On topic because Minnesota is where Spam comes from and Spam is what give people high blood pressure.
If two ciders bring my blood pressure down to the moderate range, three more will have me perfectly healthy. Math is great.
30: That's not fair. My grandmothers had to spend their whole lives in Nebraska.
Also, we come from a long line of people who don't do much because we don't like stress or change.
24 link is super interesting.
Something is walking on my roof. I think it's the possum that I saw under my neighbor's deck this week. I'm pretty sure I heard it this morning also. They make a really weird sound when they want to.
I love Minneapolis, and could very happily live there. The climate suits me, and also the lakes.
(And I do love baking, so the flour museum is now on my list...).
ll multiple sleepless nights and ceaseless legal toiling resulted in the issuance of an immediate stay late today so i'm thinking of pulling the trigger on a dress or two ... currently find self in the extremely odd but not necessarily bad professional sitch of selecting clothing based on provenance from this-or-that international luxury conglomerate (can't wear x's dress/suit/skit&blouse to y's meeting et vice versa). assume all clients have clocked that it is all second hand, certainly hope so my god would anyone sane pay their sticker prices??? one particular gc is always cheerleading me on, "you can afford it! just go in and *shop*!" um no, dude, i don't think so. will say though that the elevator ride up to the client conference room for the in-house meeting, my god the fabulous outfits folks are wearing, so wonderful. l>
24 is indeed fascinating. It's like an excessively detailed backstory for a secondary character in a Don Winslow novel and the only problem is that it all seems a bit contrived to be believable as fiction. (Read the Mexico trilogy, guys, it's superior quality thriller.)
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The RAB recovered a huge amount of foreign liquor, over 1,000 methamphetamine-based yaba pills, a pistol and two kangaroo hides|>
It's good to have an extra kangaroo hide if you're going to be doing meth.
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I had a truly Naked Lunch Cronenbergian surreal encounter earlier today. I went to a conference at my institution and was talking to one of the presenters along with a friend of mine who is also presenting there. My friend asked for this profs' card and the guy pulled out his wallet, I asked for a card too and at just that moment a cockroach crawled out of his wallet, wandered around a bit on it, then dropped to the floor, crawled up his shoe and pants leg. Neither of them saw it and I was too flabbergasted to say anything. Started to wonder if I've been drinking too much and was hallucinating.
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That reminds me more of Men In Black.
All this time I've thought of Barry as a serious qualified professional and now I learn that not only doesn't he carry a cockroach in his wallet, he's never even heard of wallet roaches. Honestly, Barry, there's a special pocket in the back for them and everything.
Kind of on topic with 24, Bret Stephens backed out of a debate with the professor he tried to get fired.
No choice, I did but I kept it in my hand then went to the bathroom to wash my hands, take a pic of it then tossed it.
This one time a tiny spider fell seemingly from my hair onto a book I was reading. My hair was pretty unkempt at the time, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't hatched there.
53: Fool! That was your daughter!
Necessary: "so here i am, parent me"
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So, Hawaii has had light headaches for the past year or so. I also had them at her age, and we never found any cause and then I grew out of them, so for a while we just didn't worry about Hawaii's. But eventually I took her in to see a doctor.
The doctor said this is a normal prepuberty thing, might be connected to some possible abdominal migraines she's had in the past, and that there's a very good drug for relieving this in kids now. It doesn't work in adults, but in kids it literally treats: allergies, headaches, an appetite stimulant, and a mild anti-anxiety medication. Jeez, Hawaii might benefit from all of those, we thought.
She's been on it for about two weeks, and she's just mellower, and it's amazing. Little disagreements are not spinning out of control. We've always said that our big kids are way more work than the little kids, and now they're just ...regular big kids.
I feel a little weird about having her be on anti-anxiety meds without deliberately choosing it - like, we snuck in through the back door as a side effect of the headache medicine. But anyway.
The thing that's prompted this is that right now she's shooting hoops in the driveway, and I can barely remember seeing her do something just for the sheer enjoyment of it. There's always fear of embarrassment, or thinking about what others will think of it, or she's doing something in order to show it to us and seek approval, or on and on. But she has very few things - dolls, reading, some art, occasionally bike riding - that she's just done, and certainly nothing outside the house and outside her comfort zone like this. It may seem like not that big a thing, but it feels really big here.
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Like, historically when she has friends over, she can't play and just shoots down all their ideas, and they end up sitting around being super bored, (whereas the other kids get immersed with friends). She's just always been unable to relax in situations where other kids were relaxed.
And now Pokey is outside with her! And it's getting dark! The two of them never spontaneously go outside to play, and they're both historically skittish about it getting dark. Crazy. We're going to have to, like, call them in for dinner like regular kids who play. For fun.
Modern medicine for the win! Heebie, this sounds like just a good thing for your daughter. Please don't worry about how/why/when you arrived at this prescription/remedy. A doctor recommends it; you try it; and if it works ... hey! it works ...