when you have a travel list with notes to remind you of your past lapses: [ ] deodorant (!full!)

Peter Moore, The Full Montezuma: Around Central America with The Girl Next Door (2001) – six months of intensive traveling together will let you know if you were meant for each other (yeah, his next book was called Swahili for the Broken-Hearted …)

“some settling may occur during shipping”

• “let’s abandon our industrial base and move manufacturing overseas”
• “we can’t use overseas products because of national security”

generally, on either Steam or Amazon, I find the negative reviews more useful – not for the actual reviews themselves, but the overall tone – if all the negatives are just whiny conservative pearl-clutchers then the game is going to be just fine – if all the negatives are talking about bugs, broken gameplay, unfinished storylines, predatory microtransactions then it’s more EA shovelware

didn’t even think of this earlier – you can also look into the next step beyond growing and eating: preserving – pickling for the cucumbers (tsukemono or quick pickles, dill pickles, bread-and-butter pickles) – fermentation for the cabbage (sauerkraut, kimchi)

looking for some sort of stability / comfort / normalcy in life

Meet the “digital parents” giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had

the cherry on top – you can’t leave reviews if you haven’t bought the game or played it through Steam (free to play, family share)

• if you can handle fruit trees and perennials, then annuals won’t pose too much of a challenge – same rules apply, pick plants that like your climate – USDA hardiness, humid continental climate
• most plants and seed packets will come with relatively basic instructions (how often to water, how much sun, etc.) to give you a starting point
• cucumbers (pretty much the whole squash family) can be pretty prolific growers (there’s running jokes about planting too much zucchini and ending up having to leave bags of extra zucchini on neighbors’ doorsteps)
• if you go a large pot (or a raised bed), take a look at companion planting (plants that traditionally grow well together)
  • the classic is “four sisters” (“three sisters” + pollinator) – tall corn in the center, something out of the bean family that will climb up the support of the corn, something out of the squash family that will act as ground cover, and something flowering (like sunflower) that will attract the pollinators (bees and birds)
• if you’re dealing with early winters
  • something out of the cabbage family (cabbages, kale, broccoli, cauliflower) and a tuber (carrots, radishes, daikon) – one grows up, one grows down
  • potatoes will do pretty well on their own

diet advice from a “survivalist” who stayed at hotels while filming

• got curious and I still have no idea
  • town is Merlimont
  • Merlimont website promotes their beach attractions, doesn’t talk about anything inland
  • from street view, they look like catchment ponds of some sort ?

wouldn’t they be called “indulgences”?

as long as you keep your Amazon Social Purchasing Score high enough

and yet they still interfere with our politicians, water supplies, baby formula, food safety, and child slavery laws …

30000 feet 9100 metres

pay attention to tapering off the caffeine or find a replacement you can handle (ex. tea or yerba mate) – caffeine withdrawal is no joke

hasn’t stopped them bribing lobbying American politicians …

(pretty sure we have more Roundup in our blood than any German)

Fortunate Son and Born in the USA have the advantage no conservative has ever read the lyrics