Life imitates... Civ V?
One of my favorite things in Civ V is when my two main rivals start fighting each other; it depletes their militaries, making them less of a threat to attack me 'just because', and (at least in the short term) makes them spend resources on building soldie...The Asshole Problem
About twelve years ago, I was really into an online game/"society simulator" called Cantr II. (Jos, Wim, in the unlikely event that you find this, hallo, hoe gaat het, ik probeer nog steeds nederlands te leren. :) ) It was kind of a sandbox game - there w...Lazy voting...
I used to regard straight-ticket voting as lazy, the tool of an unthinking party loyalist who was more concerned with what label a politician wore than what their actual positions were. I guess I've become an unthinking party loyalist - or more like an un...Crazy Cat Lady
At one point in my life - one very brief point - I had ten cats: I had three of my own, we fostered three for a friend who had to move to a no-cats-allowed space, and one of those three was pregnant with four kittens. Two of the foster cats were rehomed t...I didn't know how heavy it was
I had my annual checkup today, as part of which my primary care doctor took over prescribing my brain meds. I related to him that it had almost been like magic - like I'd been carrying a weight around in my head and didn't realize it until I put it down....Garden dreams
Most years I seem to plan more garden than I'm actually capable of taking care of. (The last couple years the amount of garden I was actually capable of taking care of was zero. whoops. This year I anticipated that and didn't plant any vegetables.) So I'...Non-tea time.
It's pumpkin spice latte season. (I know it's only September. I don't care.) I'm not a big fan of Starbucks coffee but Tim Hortons also has an excellent pumpkin spice flavor, and this year it's available in ice capp form. The corollary to this: it is also...A thing I should have figured out without having to do it the hard way
The Hamilton soundtrack is not good music for work. Abject weeping is not conducive to spreadsheet-wrangling. (On the bright side it's a day where there are enough spreadsheets to wrangle that I hung up the "go away don't want any" sign and closed the doo...Tea time!
I've become a bit of a tea snob. I prefer loose-leaf tea to tea bags. I paid out of my own pocket for a kettle for my work breakroom so that I could have "real" boiling water to pour over the infuser instead of microwaving my mug of water and then dunking...Things I Learned Over The Long Weekend
The Hamilton soundtrack is not good gardening music. The weeding will be brought to a halt by abject weeping rather than overexertion and/or being out of weeds. haha you're never out of weeds I was actually out of room in the yard waste bin so I guess I d...Me and the CPAP
My husband snores. I don't think I'd be out of line to describe his degree of snoring, left to his own devices, as 'like a jet engine, if you're sitting inside the plane'. This led to a situation where I had to go to bed before he did, by maybe an hour or...In which I grapple with the asshole problem (and lose)
I once explained the idea that keeps me, a secular humanist, going on a philosophical level as this: while there is no underlying grand purpose to my existence, we seven billion humans are stuck here together on this mudball, and we should do what we can ...Tea time!
Normally when I want an "instead of coffee" tea I'll reach for Irish Breakfast blend, and I prefer the cheap stuff (Twinings) to the higher-end tea from Tea Haus or Adagio. It's got a lot of body to it, I guess, and a lot of caffeine - I've referred to it...Movie review: The Little Prince
I watched The Little Prince on Netflix and I can’t recommend it strongly enough. (Bearing in mind that I took Spanish instead of French in high school and thus never read Le Petit Prince and so I have no attachment to the source material at all.) It was ...



