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The penultimate time I was in China we went to a HotPot place where they had sweet pickled garlic, like they would bring whole bulbs to the table and you'd just grab cloves and go to town. That and pickled watermelon radish remain things I have yet to run into stateside. Maybe today is a quest day?

"FDNY Chicago" as featured on "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins" is a primary reason I feel like it has jumped in as a 30 Rock spiritual successor. (Eminently rewatchable.)

A few summers ago I added Olympic Bouldering to my favorite bits of athleticism to watch as kind of the only event with an allowance for problem solving [...the courses are literally called "problems"!]. Anyhow: an ongoing live event fix/curious background watching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjz...

A nice thing about a niche sports interest is that odds of inadvertently learning final ranks if you don't watch live are pretty low (…maybe not if you don't have events bookmarked independent of the orgs that wanna show highlights) in terms of ruined later watching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmfi...

I wonder if Smashing Pumpkins related discourse ramps up *every* year with the increasing tensions induced by an approaching mischief night.

FWIW, pumpkin is good eats, the carving them up and leaving them outside to rot is kind of a bummer. That's not saying don't do it so much as consider your options!

"It's a good thing that my tape measure is in the passenger seat of my car, or else I would measure the pile of stuff on the project table and then I'd probably feel bad." --ME, gently publicly shaming the version of me who was thinking that aloud a second ago, in the maybe futile hope that I clean.

Dénouement on this for the intensely curious: I actually did get down to bare table yesterday, unrelated to shame, only 'cause I started looking for something and kept digging because I plum forgot what I was looking for, maybe proving the edge case of something not being the last place one looks.

"It's a good thing that my tape measure is in the passenger seat of my car, or else I would measure the pile of stuff on the project table and then I'd probably feel bad." --ME, gently publicly shaming the version of me who was thinking that aloud a second ago, in the maybe futile hope that I clean.

"Shame alone doesn't work, you sum of every terrible and awesome (but maybe still terrible) decision you have made for DECADES." --also ME, because we know this.

"...One, but the lightbulb has to WANT to change."

Could this be my new theonion.com/middle-easte... ? Sources are uncertain.

I probably could boot my old G4cube with the originalish download dates from my era of assertive limewire usage (compiling a ministry of sound at Avignon) to ID it but I just heard an Aaliyah song I only knew as sample just now and had a response like a baby hearing for the 1st time. (Big eyes face)

Ironically, the sound suddenly in my head was the baby that is sampled in "Are You That Somebody" which used to be the 1st song that would play whenever my phone was plugged into a car because of the nature of alphabetical ordering AND the fact it was the primary work I knew of hers. #MinutiaeMonday

I wish my old flatmate was on here because the heuristics from our old debates about the relative merits of Rory's boyfriends on "Robot Wars" would be rigorously applied to my decades late watching of "Felicity". (Tyra Banks just slapped the shit outta one of the nonTurk crossover guys from Scrubs)

(The slapee was playing chess with Leonard from Community on the next episode!) Weird charming time capsules, these things.

I wish my old flatmate was on here because the heuristics from our old debates about the relative merits of Rory's boyfriends on "Robot Wars" would be rigorously applied to my decades late watching of "Felicity". (Tyra Banks just slapped the shit outta one of the nonTurk crossover guys from Scrubs)

As much as Mary J. Blige kinda owns the word "percolatin'" in musical contexts, Chris Cornell really got the monopoly on "wheresoever" and "whomsoever".

To effectively use energy (both social and petrol based) I tagged one social obligation with back(to back)³ visits w/ —a peer I owed a book —an old coworker —a collaborator —a "we should totes get together in CA" followup to an ad hoc line friendship struck up in DC —AND my old boss/lab Now pooped!

A tricky thing about having a proper sore throat for the first time in ages makes me worry that 5 (good) social visits was enough that I picked up something and I am low key SO MAD. Though it's also been long enough since I've been this subtype of unwell that I am in a "is this the big bad?" phase.

To effectively use energy (both social and petrol based) I tagged one social obligation with back(to back)³ visits w/ —a peer I owed a book —an old coworker —a collaborator —a "we should totes get together in CA" followup to an ad hoc line friendship struck up in DC —AND my old boss/lab Now pooped!