The point is no cooking. Just rice and frozen veggies. Maybe a sesame oil sauce.
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I don’t want to delay 10pm bath or my bedtime
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The headache I went to bed with is still there this morning, plus it woke me up several times.
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I haven’t had a day off in 9 days and 2 more people are now coming for Christmas dinner this weekend. I do not have enough table space or chairs for this and will need to borrow or buy some.
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My coworkers think that it is acceptable to use personal cell numbers for non-work related group chat stuff. Like just sending weird tech memes at 1 a.m. And I’m the asshole because I try to keep work and personal life separate. Also, go to bed!
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FUCK CLIPPER CARD.
They want ME to send them $5 to get the $12 left on the card back. (Yes, I still have my Clipper card more than 4 years after I moved away.)
I don’t know what to do about this. There also seems to be no way to cancel the card without sending it back and it is still tied to a cc with no way to remove that without sending it back.
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I have a really really good book from the library. It is a large hardcover. They didn’t have it as an ebook. It is impossible to read it while waiting for public transport - my prime reading time - due to the impossibility of turning pages with hands swathed in heavy gloves, and the icy wind whipping the pages around.
Also impossible to hold it with one hand while clinging to the train pole with the other to avoid going flying when the el driver SLAMS on the brakes repeatedly.
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What book? I can sometimes find things for people, piracy being only sort of illegal here.
My complaint is capitalism, which I abhor but which benefits me and which I cannot avoid.
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. Author of Night Circus. Anyone who has even a vague interest in fantasy or magickal stories should read them both. (I’m only halfway through Starless Sea but so far it’s wonderful.)
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Y’all are slowly converting me on this capitalism thing. My complaint in that arena is that nothing is true. I like the idea of free markets determining the price of goods and services with benevolent government oversight to make sure things don’t get stupid or hurt the earth and the people on it. But I don’t know what that’s called.
My other complaint is I have this bad habit of peppering documents that are a work in progress with extreme profanity. Like, when I get stuck on how to word a sentence, I just type things that were common place to say down on the docks or behind closed doors with elected types. One of these days I’m going to forget to clean that up before I send it to someone.
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Hmph.
I got waitlisted for my favorite class at my gym even though I tried signing up 36 hours in advance (you can only register starting 48 hours in advance).
Looked up the weekend classes and my second favorite class is cancelled for Saturday.
I have Friday off and there are 2 yoga classes during the day, but neither of them really fits what I had planned for that day.
My gym apparently has NO classes between 12/22 and 1/1.
Blargh. I don’t wanna just use the treadmill and bike. I like the classes!
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I’ve seen this happen in legal documents (forgetting to clean up the final version) - it is glorious! (Because it wasn’t me that forgot).
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I do this. The secret is to set that stuff to bright pink, bold font in a bigger size. (When working in LaTeX, I had a special \flag{ } command for that.)
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We still have no heat and my contractor hasn’t gotten back to me on when he expects that we’ll have a working furnace and connected ducts. But at least HVAC guys have been here every day and making a ruckus in the basement, so something is happening.
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I thought I saw a note about stickers being shipped but it was 4am and when I looked this morning at a more reasonable hour I couldn’t find the note again in the places i thought it might have come through, so maybe I dreamed it
A piece of poorly digested potato?
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I think I got an email that stickers shipped, and I saw a final reminder to fill out the form to get your sticker.
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Go read about “The Doughnut Economy”, Kate Raworth. It addresses this. It’s chapter 2 or 3 of her book but I haven’t trawled through her website yet…
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Thank you! I’ll definitely check it out
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I got a soup recipe book from the library because it’s finally [California] winter, and almost all of the recipes are some combination of strange, unnecessarily complicated, or expensive. Boo.
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Do you wanna talk California winter soups? Because I am here for this.
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