Thanks @Sunflower & @rural! I’m kicking myself for not just getting a 25lb bag from the restaurant supply several weeks ago when I ordered our restock of salmon and beef. I bake fairly often now but in my first apartment I had a run in with weevils and have never bought large amounts of flour since. It’s never been a problem to just grab a bag at the store until now, and given my space limitations it seemed sensible.
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Yep, I could havet gotten 25 pounds at the store just teo weeks ago and didn’t because it seemed crazy. Not I’m not sure there is any such thing as paranoia anymore…
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You just saved the day. Ordered lots of flour, some baking powder, and vanilla extract since my local shops will probably continue to be out of it until people come to their senses and stop panic buying shit they won’t use.
Now it’s time to bake blondies.
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I wouldn’t have even called it panic buying since we would actually use it in a timely fashion. I can’t wait to have a more appropriately sized (for my family/lifestyle) house so that I can store things like this.
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Damn. Nowhere near me and over $100 for shipping.
ETA I wouldn’t mind the flour shortage if we could just buy bread, but there’s none of that either.
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The place I get dry goods from is CLNF.org and they have fairly cheap flat rate shipping for orders less than 50lb but they’re pretty backed up on orders last I checked (like 10-14 days).
Edit: I’ve been buying sub-50lb orders while getting used to my grain mill again but longer term I am on one of their truck delivery routes where shipping is free with orders over a $400-500 minimum. I used to do that earlier in my MMM days before I went keto for a while.
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I have sennheiser wireless noise cancelling headphones, which are incredible quality and I love them. Over the past few months I haven’t been able to wear them - if the top of them rests on my head it makes my scalp hurt for hours and if I expand them so it doesn’t touch me, the earpieces pull on my ears and that also hurts for hours. They only weigh 236 g so this seems insane to me.
My headphones need to be big enough that they don’t squish my ears and so light that I can’t really feel them.
I’m googling for a list of lightweight headphones that meet my specs but all the lists and reviews I’m finding seem to be sponsored and so unreliable.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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I bought a second hand book on ebay, and it has a library cover/ stamps in it. Do libraries sell off books, or did I just buy stolen goods?
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They sell books all the time. Many of the used books we’ve bought have been library discards.
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You’d think you’d take the protective cover and stamps of previous borrows out? But that’s reassuring 
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Usually there will be a stamp or sticker in there that says discarded but that’s about it. They normally leave everything else except for the RFID tag.
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Library Director here - can confirm that we sell books that we have removed from the collection all the time. We usually just stamp them “withdrawn” or “removed from circulation”. We also usually cross out the barcode. But we leave the other treatments intact. Some resale places actually specify that that is how they want old library books.
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There is a faint cancelled stamp over the barcode - so hopefully that means it’s legit! 
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No ideas, but I get the same thing from all the over-the-ears headphones I’ve tried.
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What kind of headphones do you use?
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I have a headset from MPOW that does alright for about an hour before it starts to get uncomfortable. The super cheap amazon basics one I have at work takes about 30 minutes to start hurting.
My wife has some top of the line Bose noise cancelling headphones but I haven’t tried those out. She seems to be able to wear them ~8 hours a day without minding it though.
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If you ever find something that you can wear indefinitely let me know. I am irked by this failure of modern technology. We can put a man on the moon but headphones hurt.
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Q for the sewers out there:
Where does one buy fabric online?
ETA: hobby level purchase.
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I put my music and murder shows on the phone speaker and pretend it’s a boombox. In public, this helps ensure social distancing
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I often bought mine on ebay, which was really good about 60% of the time and kinda meh the rest of the time. It worked better when I was looking for something really specific. Otherwise I used minerva crafts, but I think they’re UK only
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