TrackinDaKraken

We’ll sit you down in front of a tablet as soon as you can sit up unassisted, so corporate America can raise you. Good luck, kid, you’re going to need it, because we’re doing the same thing. We’re staring at our phones and mindlessly eating ridiculously-overpriced garbage “food” we ordered online every minute we can.

Looks like they just pulled out of that snow bank behind the truck to take a picture because they were surprised it stayed in place.

I read fiction as an escape. I do not keep a bulletin board covered in note cards and red string for each book. It goes in my eyes, fizzles on my neurons for a few seconds, and then dissipates like a fart on a summer breeze.

It’s interesting to watch people sus this out in real time. Society as a whole will land on some sort of “solution”, and I expect it’s one most of you won’t like.

I predict you’ll get your wish.

she’s destroying the world by paying attention to this

Okay, I’ll bite. How exactly is your mom “destroying the world” by paying attention to it?

Tender, succulent chicken breast, lovingly bathed in a sweet, creamy garlic sauce, served with melon balls, and broken promises.

Gay man so deep in the closet he lives in Narnia: “Why is everything so gay?!”

It probably is? I mean, there are so many damn fonts.

They’re very common in the U.S., too, in the past six years.

At first, I was against them, because of fewer people being employed, and I’d be “working for free”, but the much shorter wait convinced me. Also, Walmart employs a bunch of people to do the pick-up shopping, so, I think the number of people employed has stayed the same. Although, I suspect they pay the pickers less.

I refuse to use the pick-up shopping because half of my shopping is fresh vegetables, and I don’t trust anyone else to choose them for me. Yeah, I want two onions, but I want big ones, and ones with no mold or bruises. Food is expensive, and I don’t want to pay for poor quality. Yeah, I want a bunch of celery, but if the organic looks better than the normal, I might pay a bit extra for that this time. Paid pickers can’t make those choices for me.

I’m one of those old people. We know what’s up.

I don’t. Not for shopping. I had to wait outside in line, in the freezing cold for an hour, when my state decided to limit the number of customers allowed in at one time. Sucked balls. That didn’t last long, fortunately.

I do my grocery shopping at about 7AM on Sunday. I cruise through the aisles, slowing down to grab what I want. A full week’s shopping done in under 30 minutes, including checkout. I’m sure it also helps that I choose not to live in a big city.

I suppose if I had an online following of any kind, I might shop at a time that gave me something to complain about.

This is it, down to the bow:

Neither of my parents wanted or had any memorial service when they died. They were both cremated. I have a picture I took of them together about 20 years ago, it sits on a sort-of memorial shelf in my entry hall.

IDGAF what happens to my body after I die. As the youngest of four kids, I’ll probably outlive all of my siblings. The only person that might give a damn when the time comes is my son. I have no idea where he will be or what he might be doing. ATM, he still lives with me, but I hope to be around for at least another 20 years. He might be on the other side of the world by then.

Generally speaking, we should not be eating hot food from plastic containers. I certainly don’t.

Ideally, we wouldn’t use plastic containers for food at all, but that ship sailed 60 years ago. Also, even if you are able to avoid buying food in plastic containers, the machines used to process the food, even just to transport fresh vegetables along a conveyor line, shed plastic from gears and bushings, etc. But, that’s micro plastic, not the chemicals that leech from the plastic much more readily when it’s heated.

Here’s a study about micro plastic in olive oil. TL;DR: there’s no difference in the amount of micro plastic in olive oil between oil sold in glass containers compared to oil sold in plastic containers.

My daily driver is a basic white, glazed mug I’ve had for nearly 30 years. I probably got it at Goodwill for 25 cents. It has no clever saying on it, because I’d get tired of that in a week.

(No, it’s not leeching lead into my coffee.)

I mean, more like elevator.

Oh! Unless, they’re using the wheels to move back and forth and steer? That would make sense.

I had a co-worker who took a few semesters of Spanish in high school, she got all As, and then went on a class trip to Mexico. At first, she couldn’t understand a thing, but she said as she listened and tried, “something snapped” and suddenly she got it.

Most people who take a language in school don’t keep at it. We’re just doing it because it’s required, and to pass the class. I took French in high school. The only person I’ve ever met who spoke French fluently was my teacher. I really should have taken Spanish, but I wanted to be “different”.

In Europe, also, because of the open borders, and being packed so close together, people encounter foreign languages far more frequently. It makes sense they’d all want to, and benefit from, knowing multiple languages. And, they’d have more opportunities to practice. Not many Japanese speak a second language, compared to Europeans, for instance.