No footnotes? One thing I love about reading texts with endnotes and footnotes on my ereader is that I don’t have to flip back and forth - I just tap the note and it pops up for me.

I used to make a point of ordering cookbooks while eating lunch because I could not look at those pics and not get hungry.

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Writing Excuses did an episode with NK Jemisin where she discusses her process and why revisions are so important that I like for this reason. writingexcuses.com/19-46-an-int...

In talking to people, I’ve found it works really well for some folks and really hinders others. If you are more of a pantser than a plotser, it can be more useful to use at the revision stage to see if you are missing something, but not all narratives follow that formula.

Plum’s whole tail goes floofy!

Oh, menz……

Right! I like that my friends know that I’m cool with going to the park or zoo with them and their kids. Yeah, it’s great when we can do things without the kids, but families are part of who a person is.

Yes. And then they complain because the teens are inside the library all day at the computers rather than doing something outside. I’ve heard them. The kids can’t win.

I had to limit to a certain degree because of patrons who abused the system. I have stats for Circ performance and I can’t spend half the monthly budget on one of the worst performing genres so somebody can boast online to their bookstagram followers about their influence at the library. 🙄

There’s also a Plantation Party that includes the supposedly relaxing game of picking cotton. I wish I was joking.

Title page of The Complete Book of Children’s Parties by Florence Hamsher

Description of the game Hobo Tag: “Mark off two safety zones at opposite ends of the yard or room. One player is chosen to be the Cop and stands to one side and midway between the two zones. Whenever the Cop yells “Run” the Hoboes” try to cross to the other safety zone without being tagged by the Cop. All who are tagged become Cops. These players join hands with the Cop and help to catch the remaining Hoboes as they run from one zone to the other. The line of Cops, however, must not be broken at anytime and only the players on the ends of the line may tag a running hobo.”

Description of “Cops and Hoboes”: This game is played in groups of four. Three of the four players join hands to form a circle around the fourth. Besides the groups of four there are two extra players. One of these players is the Cop and the other is the Hobo. The Cop chases the Hobo who may take refuge inside any of the circles, but the moment he enters the circle the Hobo already in there must leave and run for safety into another. If they can catch the Hobo outside any safety zone, the positions are reversed with the Hobo becoming a Cop while the Cop becomes a Hobo.

Some of you know that I like older books about etiquette and such. They tell us a lot about society today. A bit ago, I was looking at a book I have about parties for children from the 40s. It features a “Rags and Tatters” party including multiple games in which “cops” chase and capture “hobos.”

There is a way to see who has marked things as notify me, but I forgot how to do it. I did it once when I was playing around with ours.

I live reasonably close to my parents. My dad will slip overly large amounts of “gas money” into the side pocket of my purse when I do small things for them. I stopped resisting because it makes him happy.

Same.

Partially, but also a sense of superiority in their ability to make it on the stove. I can make it on the stove, too. I just appreciate all of the other features. And it leaves me with more space on my stovetop for other things.

Honestly, the mere fact that I can start it at noon and let it stay on warm all day is a selling point for me. I have a decent Cuckoo rice cooker and not everybody needs one with that many options, but even the basic ones do a lot!

This. And the people who mock things like rice cookers. I can make rice just fine, but 1)I like having a burner free, and 2) I like being able to start it up and leave it. It’s a steamer! My SIL, who is from China, uses one, so I don’t need attitude from other white people.

I figured.

The selection is rarely all that great.

So many people were talking about corn sweat I had to make corn chowder.

And bacon and some chicken!

Emergency burritos in my freezer are a lifesaver when I don’t have time to prep lunches.

Plum recently discovered my homemade corn chowder. 😒

When I’ve taken the seed library seed packets to community events, people get very excited. When I tell them there are even more at the actual library, absolute glee!

A leatherhard white clay pottery mug that reads “I WILL CUT A BITCH” held in my hand over a pottery wheel

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The book within the book, of course, is what I mean. Not the book itself. Anyway, he was devastated. Our parents had to remind him that the children were watching him.

I think I broke my brother when I explained to him that there really isn’t a real book The Princess Bride is based on. A grown man had a tantrum at the dinner table in front of his children during a holiday meal: “WHY WOULD HE LIE!!!” Me: “ It’s fiction.”

I went straight from complet collections of Grimm and Anderson to Stephen King and Agatha Christie.

My siblings and I weren’t as feral as some, but my mom the social worker probably had more reasons to be cautious. She did let me read whatever we wanted, but was more strict about visual media.