Mad libs

“things too many people have that nobody wants”

I’m _(reason)not_drinking_so_much anymore so I’m getting rid of my all of my _(hobby)beer_home_brewing_gear all at once, so if you know anybody in (city and/or county)san_francisco who wants to _(ambitious and unlikely outcome)_come_pick_it_up, let me know.

Was looking to see if i had posted about how i managed to injure myself while prepping dinner a few years ago then, because last night i did it again, in almost exactly the same way.

well it turns out that i don’t think i posted about it, but this wish-it-was-a-ligature finger wag that i made up for some other thing was in the search results for “finger”

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very funny having the same injury that will take a month to heal a second time because I get to skip all the treatments that don’t work, and skip learning to not bump into it constantly, I just stop using that finger for anything.

Bespoke ace wrap over cloth >>>> any sticky band-aid for my skin type, band-aids just fall off and varieties only improve when not if.

and it’s funny to look backwards on cause-effect that I just disregard in realtime by applying the fundamental attribution error to myself

I sprained my right wrist and started doing a no-numbers body weight cut around the same time two weeks ago so I’ve been more clumsy (lack of calories) and handling things funny and bumping into things when I carry stuff w/ my dominant hand that has a sprained wrist so, no surprised that I eventually made a mistake with a kitchen tool with it.

one of our fiddle leaf’s started dropping leaves as they do a month ago and eventually dropped 90% of it’s leaves with the exception of three healthy branches. it looks terrible after like four years of amazing fitness in the same place.

it took me another month to remember that I on a whim used some “indoor house plant fertilizer” prior that I found under the sink on all the house plants prior to this happening.

Oops.

Nominative determinism

https://mastodon.social/@vga_gradients/115121070041127748

Fun page turner alt-history of an American dropped into a world without the west. Almost YA, and much of it’s time, and I’m unsure how it would survive critical analysis today, but I liked it.

Every time I walk past this house I’m like “Damn, I didn’t think people actually used More Windows (high color)”

Made three cup last night and mistakenly used rice vinegar instead of rice wine.

given the sauce calls for two parts rice wine to one part soy sauce, this was a real mad-recipe-commentor’s-wildly-innappropriate-substitution, but it was kinda ok? but I also certainly won’t do it again.

junior balked immediately after devouring just enough to not be starving anymore and pivoted to desert.

My third Waldrop collection, and as a completionist confonting a best-of, I ended up skipping a few stories I’ve already read in “Howard Who?” and “Going Home Again.” Still a must for Waldrop readers. I particularly enjoyed “Night of the Cooters” and “Flying Saucer Rock and Roll.”

My first exposure to Waldrop, via a Kelly Link interview and small beer press opens with a bang, “The Ugly Chickens,” but I think my favorite was “Man-Mountain Gentian” about the Waldrop-invented world of profeesional zen-sumo wrestling. I immediately started to seek out the rest of his work.