Set up a standing monthly dinner with my due date buddies. 
This will be great for community and our kids growing up together.
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Finally managed to get fresh ground peanut butter at Mom’s. They’ve had it in store for a couple months but the grinder was always empty when I was there, until today!
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Roomba now parents my child for me while I eat toast and drink coffee. Rabbit is unphased by Roomba. Child is happy. I am happy. Roomba may or may not be happy but lacks the capacity to express its emotions.
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If Douglas Adams has taught me anything it’s that robots are filled with existential angst, and it doesn’t matter.
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I passed my lead climbing test today, so I am officially certified to lead climb in my gym now. 
That’s both exciting and scary!
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What does this mean? Congratulations! 
So I don’t know if you remember/can picture this, but when you top rope (what we did), the rope is wrapped around a big beam up high and loops around the beam and then both strands of the rope hang down. So when you climb, the rope is always above you and the belayer’s job is to keep the rope moving upward as you climb. If you fall, you basically fall like an inch and it’s no big deal.
With lead climbing, the entire rope is below you/starting on the ground. You clip into carabiners on the wall with your rope as you move upward and those stop you from dying if you were to fall. If you fall between clips, you take much bigger falls. Your belayer’s job is now to not only stop you from dying, but also feed the rope upward as you climb and give you enough rope to be able to clip in. It’s a little more complex and a little more risky. This opens up a lot more options for climbing outside.
Here’s an example of a kid lead climbing in a gym. See how he’s clipped his rope through all those things on the wall? I hope I explained that reasonably well!
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AHHHHH 
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Just don’t fall! 
Actually, it’s kind of fun to fall. You definitely get that scary rollercoaster WEEEEE feeling.
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kay.
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I played guitar with Duckling while he played ukelele, maracas and danced. We made up silly songs about “my little son Duckling”. It was heaps of fun.
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Ponder agreed to go pick up building supplies for me from a neighbour’s house! Victory for me, for Ponder, and for Buy Nothing.
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All the victories here today. I came up with a basis for a story that I could actually plan out and then write during NaNoWriMo, thanks to a book I just read that reads like someone else’s (polished) attempt at NaNoWriMo.
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I’ve had a few victories lately, but most currently notable is that I used my first bidet ever!!
I am now keenly aware that I have basically been covered head to toe in feces until this point in my life and now I need to own a bidet as soon as humanly possible!
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The original sketch from the Atomic Robo kickstarter has been put into the poster hanging thing that the Shadowy One purchased just after the holidays. It is likely we have had this art in a drawer since approx June 2018.
I found a spot for it to hang where we can see it but it won’t get sun damage and moved another two pieces so that run of nails is now a gallery wall.
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Friend and shop owner was able to go to a fabric show that I couldn’t make it to today in NYC, she saw a company that sells American made wool (and other US made fabrics!) that might fit my needs and sent me their info. What a gem
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Tacos & cookies.
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Me too, and I love it! My friend who got the same one a year ago after using mine emailed me recently to tell me that her tushy thanks me 
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I want one at the new house. What features are the most important?
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