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For a while, after I deleted my Twitter account and before I started using my Bluesky account instead, I was keeping my bits and pieces on my Tumblr, which I also no longer use. These are those bits and pieces.
01 - There's something that deeply bothers me about people who read books of personal adventure, like that book of that lady who hiked the Pacific Coast Trail, and perform the same rituals thinking to get the same adventure out of it, the same epiphany, the same fulfilment. I get the appeal of pilgrimage, but why not blaze your own trail, find your own adventure, create your own epiphany, instead of living someone else's.
01 - I thought today was Friday.
01 - Someone posted online the other day asking for people to share their favourite insult that wasn't a vulgarity. This is one of mine: It may be your sole purpose in life to serve as a warning to others.
01 - I bought a giant bag of wine gums. Turns out I don't actually want them as much as I thought I did. Now I have a giant bag of wine gums I don't want to eat.
01 - Phrases I'm sick to death of hearing: passive income.
01 - If you open up a haunted furniture store, you can call it the Booteak. you're welcome.
04 - My least favourite season of True Blood is 4. Marnie the witch sounds like a nasal duck when she talks.
04 - I just saw this clip of some woman talking about things that make your home look tacky and how you can get rid of them or change them. Bitch, I want my home to look tacky.
04 - Ever want a snack but you're still full from dinner but you still want the snack but there's no room for it but you still want it?
04 - I completely forgot about the expletive whoreson until it popped out of me unbidden yesterday evening.
04 - Favourites:
- Pen colours: black ink, all the way, for writing.
- Sandwich fillings: grape jam and crunchy peanut butter, cucumber / tomato / havarti / black forest ham or roast beef.
- Movie quotes: “I have not yet begun to defile myself.” - Doc (Val Kilmer) Tombstone.
- Gallery exhibit: Claes Oldenberg's Floor Burger.
06 - On the list of things I wish I could hire someone to do for me would be dishes and cooking, plus laundry. Sadly, I must do them myself. Alone. Almost every damned day.
06 - I think my favourite cameo character from True Blood is Dr. Ludwig.
06 - I just learned the Cree word for "dick": tuguy.
06 - Sometimes I have an intense craving for a mint chocolate bar. Do I go for the After Eight bar, the Aero mint bar, or the family size Cadbury mint one?
07 - To whoever in my building stole my package: I hope you break the plate in your microwave. Package was returned to the spot from which it had been taken - unopened, too. Dear person, I hope you have many fully functional microwave plates.
07 - Watching celebrity fanaticism in real time is, as the kids say, cringe.
07 - I almost left my sword at the dojo. Who the fuck does that? That would have been a panic.
07 - A chatbot told me I should seek support if I have an issue eating creamed avocado. Somehow I think I can save support for other needs, like PTSD or trauma dumping.
09 - I had to turn off the frigging Lenovo Vantage ads on my computer (which I should have done at the outset when I got it, but here we are) because all it keeps telling me to do is buy battery-related items ... I have a desktop.
09 - Five Covid shots deep and still no 5G? I protest!
09 - I ordered in. I ordered in the two-for-one burger combos from a pub. i got them. I got them so much I got two of them. I got two two-for-one burger combos. I'm up to my eyeballs in meat product.
09 - "John Wayne is big leggy." If you know, you know.
09 - I'm going to start using the numbers from my Covid vaxes as passwords. Yumpin' yimminy.
09 - I read a comment where someone said they were sick of Take Five. Wut?
10 - There is never going to come a time when I can understand or accept why such a creative and inventive fashion icon as Andy in Pretty In Pink got hooked into one of the most awful prom dresses I've ever seen. What was that thing? Decades later, and it still bothers me.
10 - I really crave some ruby grapefruit, but I cannae have it. Bum.
10 - I don't think billionaires should be allowed to call themselves philanthropists.
10 - I'm proud to say that I never learned how to do the Macarena dance.
10 - One day I'm going to have to find out why they call them cocktails.
10 - My favourite piece of news this week is finding out that Moroccan drug dealers are refusing to sell to Israeli drug dealers. That lightened my heart and made me giggle.
10 - Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah is about orgasms.
12 - Imagine the irony of being mouthy, but not much of an extrovert. My cousin's daughter said "I flushed a bunny". I'm still not sure why.
12 - Watching someone say that another human's disabling illness was deserved because the ill person is a bad one, is really disheartening. Disability isn't a punishment. But even if it were, to be the sort of person who'd actively wish that sort of thing on another makes you the sick one.
12 - I need to find someone who can recommend some good books to me about the Black Panthers - because Amazon's idea of search results sure are not about the political party in the US.
12 - Whoever thought it was a good idea to deodorise garbage bags - fuck you.
12 - "It's hypocritical to commit oppressed people to non-violence while not restraining the oppressor from its violence." - Unknown
12 - "Hatrack ratcatcher, brickbat lingerie." If you know, you know.
12 - Things that are as useless as tits on a bull:
- MS Outlook
- non-alcoholic beer
- deodorised garbage bags
- Canada's disability minister
13 - It annoys the shit out of me when people say tenant when they mean tenet.
13 - "Unfortunately, some people were not put here to evolve. They are here to remind you what it looks like if you don't." - Unknown
13 - "Stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be necessary, and start shaming the rich for profiteering off of things that are essential." - Unknown
13 - Someone made the observation that people who aren't book smart often assume that makes them street smart, and it's not true. Street smarts are survival and adaptability smarts, social interaction smarts. If you can't even offer a drink to a guest in your home, you're lacking in smarts.
13 - I made myself sit through the first season of Bridgerton when it came out - and every time I've seen a clip of it since, I wonder how I managed to do that. Lawdy, what a gawdawful show. Costume drama Gossip Girl.
14 - Oh how I wish the people of Gaza knew we care. We do care. But there's governments who don't between them and us. This hurts so much.
14 - Watching Gordon Ramsay make crepes was a bit of a turn on.
14 - It's clear to me from a casual glance at the comments, that some folks have no idea The Beaverton is satire.
14 - There is no Cadfael but Derek Jacobi. But I do wonder who'd do a good job if they rebooted the show or reimagined the books.
14 - Things that irritate the shit out of me:
- companies that leave making T4 slips available to the last minute.
- people who complain about a situation but deliberately blinker themselves as to the nature of that situation, and any solution that could solve it.
14 - I never liked The Bangles all that much.
14 - If the world is your oyster, maybe you're the pearl.
18 - It's not anyone's obligation to care about your pet project as much as you do. So, quit your bitching about people not wanting to work and demanding people sacrifice their personal time to your company or the job they do. Put up (in the form of money, benefits, flexibility, etc.), or shut up.
18 - Break stupid rules.
18 - Watching people fetishise someone's disability makes me throw up in my mouth. People with albinism don't need to hear you talk about how beautiful they are. No disabled person needs to hear your opinions on their bravery. Fuck me. We are not your disability porn.
18 - I should do a decluttering challenge where I get rid of one thing every day. I meant to start that weeks ago, but the idea got lost - in the clutter in my head.
18 - I used to have spontaneous nosebleeds as a child. They never did figure out why.
18 - I'd be afraid to tell the makers of Escape to the Country what kinds of things I don't like, because they’d try to force it on me.
18 - Someday perhaps I'll understand why people are so obsessed with having a kitchen island. Today is not that day.
22 - I'm pretty sure I hate the word eatery.
22 - Spiral staircases look pretty, but they are a massive pain in the ass to contend with in any practical sense.
22 - It baffles me that there are people who don't know what an "everything" shower is.
22 - I wonder if I still think tomato soup is gross.
22 - Crunchy peanut butter is better than smooth.
22 - Subvert expectations.
22 - Every time Poilievre speaks, I become inundated with impressions of a duck mid-choke on rancid herring.
22 - I think I'd enjoy to do some beach cleanup, but my eyesight wouldn't really make that a viable occupation of my time. Bum.
22 - Pop songs that mention luxury brands instead of just the generic item type annoy me. It's giving trying too hard.
22 - I knocked my whole 120 pack of Crayolas onto the floor behind my table and desk - and found all but one of them. There's always one. Always. But now I have to wait until it isn't 5:30 in the morning so I can spend an hour moving everything to find it.
22 - Somehow, the fact that I prefer a 24-hour clock has tricked my brain into sometimes thinking that somehow $1400 is actually only $1200.
22 - Jodrell Bank sounds like it's only something from a Douglas Adams book.
22 - Things that are overrated: Breakfast at Tiffany's, celebrity culture, awards shows.
22 - Before you have too much of a panic about AI taking over, do remember that LLMs/AIs like ChatGPT can't count. They cannot count. Go put the following into ChatGPT. I guarantee you that it won't get the order and/or letter counts completely correct. Give me a list of all Canadian provinces and territories listed in order from the one with the least number of letters to the one with the most. Give a letter count.
25 - It would be a bad idea, I think, to create an Escape to the Country drinking game where you take a drink every time someone says “holiday let”.
25 - I just referred to my menopausal uterus as being “past its use-by date”. Apt.
25 - If you stay at an inn to sleep indoors, you should call campgrounds outs.
25 - Madness in the eyes of indoctrinated children is one of the most revolting things I've ever seen.