@mquester – Same! Sometimes end up using the hall as a pantry for several days now before I can get it all put away.
I do end up feeling sillier with it, though, when I didn’t even go out to the store and haul it home. Today it was a delivery, but I still didn’t feel like doing much with it after wrangling pretty much a weekly shop’s worth of bags into the hall with both shoulders acting up. *wry smile*
Yesterday at work this lady was buying a leaf plate and when I told her I thought it was cute she said “Yeah, it’s perfect for my treehouse!”. I was like “oh, do you have kids?” and she said “yeah, I have kids, they just aren’t allowed in my treehouse” and honestly same
i’m shook
this is a long read but it’s good
Lemme save you read and just tell you: poor vocal technique 🤷🏾♀️
lmao exactly why my fam and I rarely lose our voices
for a TLDR:
The rise in vocal injuries is linked to a change in what we consider good singing. Across all genres, it has become normal to believe that louder is better. (One reason that Adele is such a big star is because her voice is so big.) As a result, singers are pushing their cords like never before, which leads to vocal breakdown.
Human casualties of the Loudness Wars?
Also reminded of one Danny Fields interview I ran across recently:
But the Domingo album (pictured above) has a point, because Joey really did go to a vocal coach. I had worked with too many musicians who had polyps or vocal problems. It’s your instrument and you learn how to treat it well. There’s a lesson there for young singers: if Joey Ramone could go to a voice coach, so can you.
Bit of a change in emphasis there, yeah 
2017 mood: tired and resigned and just here for puns and absurdism and the occasional scream into the void
OK, I finally thought to make sure the landline phone was plugged in. It was driving me crazy ringing a couple of days ago, and I forgot to plug it back in.
Hopefully the delivery person didn’t try to call already, or at least would try back. Looks like they’re probably running late (with a couple of minutes left in the delivery window), but at least I’m not planning on going anywhere.
Pretty good indication of how much we use that phone, though: I don’t even notice it’s been unplugged for days until I’m watching out for some specific call.
And I really prefer it that way.
Thankfully, that load of groceries didn’t have many things that needed to go into the fridge or freezer. So I’m just leaving most of it sitting in the hall until I get some spoons back to deal with it
Squash finally achieved!
(Along with a big bunch of coriander/cilantro that I bet was going slimy on the bottom before some genius threw that marrow the size of my upper arm in the bag right on top of it 😈 Only found that after the guy was gone, of course.)
I would normally buy the cheaper loose zucchini if I could pick them out myself, but the bagged-up ones tend to be more consistent quality sight unseen. Glad to get any, since they just haven’t been carrying them at the store up the street this year.
But, plans: stuff half the marrow vaguely Turkish style, with some meat and leftover rice. (No way I could eat the whole thing tonight on my own.) To stew up on the stove with tomato and olive oil and a squeeze of lemon at the end. Pretty easy, and good. I only ever had baked stuffed squash before running across the recipe that’s based on, but it works really well. Putting the hollowed out pulp on the bottom of the pan to prop the pieces of squash up.
The marrows are a lot like less seedy overgrown zucchini, and good for about the same uses once you hollow them out. Not bad, and that’s apparently one of the types of summer squash that grows the best in this climate. I paid I think £1 for that one, and it’s not hard to find them for half that if you can look around more. Still a pretty good deal for a squash literally the size of my arm.
Seeing a bunch of white people chant “you’re not replacing us” when they’ve benefitted culturally for generations from Indigenous genocide is chilling. These people are disgusting, they have violence in their hearts, they do not get to have a right to be heard or their viewpoints entertained.
I laughed at this. Not a laughing matter, I know, but reading absurdities about how Wall Street analyzes stuff always makes me laugh. I worked with these people for 30+ years, and getting tossed something goofy was almost a daily thing.
The cynical writing style fits perfectly, as does the last sentence: “And also, WTF is wrong with you people?”
The story:
How can you know the potential for war is serious? When the guys on Wall Street start thinking about it in terms of dollars. But as daunting as the idea of a nuclear exchange may be, the subtitle of this Wall Street Journal article still looks as if it were lifted from the the least funny issue of the Onion.
Analysts are trying to work out what happens to the markets they cover in the event of an all-out nuclear war
Yes. That is certainly an important question. Just how does one reach one’s broker when Goldman Sachs is under a pile of boiling slag? Is there such a thing as cockroach futures? And just what does Pat Boone have to say about how this will affect my reverse mortgage?
Strategists at Nordea Markets estimate that in the unlikely event of “a potentially uncontained military conflict” in which global superpowers like China and Russia get involved, the European Central Bank would have to implement “highly dovish forward guidance” and the yield curve would likely flatten due to weaker risk appetite.
Well that makes sense. Certainly a lot of things would be “flattened” in the event of a “uncontained military conflict in which global superpowers get involved.” Though the monetary policy of the European Central Bank would matter much, much, much less than the ability of tardigrades to survive in a high temperature environment for few millennia.
Here’s the forecast from Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital: Should there ultimately be a significant military conflict, with North Korea likely launching missile attacks against South Korea and Japan, “this would entail a more significant impact on share markets with, say, 20% or so falls before it became clear that the U.S. would prevail.”
What does Shane have to say about what an incoming asteroid would do to annuities? How about the effect of a nearby supernova on the bond market? And also, WTF is wrong with you people?
The Wall Street Journal frets over how ‘all-out nuclear war’ could hurt investments
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