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I still wish I hadn't misplaced mine.

Would have been an interesting art project to frame the thing with ace flag matting.

I know I had a version where the snakes had an ill-advised action at the top end and the natural negative consequences at the lower end.

On the patient side, I really miss the days when whooping cough or measles in the news took the form of 'the doctor didn't recognize what it was at the first visit because they see it once in a career if that, great thing we have vaccines that work isn't it'.

I've been keeping track of where doors are since before I joined the Episcopalians. The business between Trump and the Nat. Cathedral (and esp their bishop) started after lockdowns did. I'm still doing Zoom church and I think both my health and COVID resolving wouldn't be enough to get me back now.

I've lived in rural Tennessee and then suburban Boston since the tea party ramped up and the ONLY place I've had coal rolled at me in particular for existing while likely liberal was Woburn, Massachusetts.

Worst I was treated for being a woman after Election Day 2016? Somerville/Cambridge line.

I had a Sunday School teacher in my Evangelical childhood who thought they put the spells on Halloween candy at the factory so his kids didn't even get to hit the day-after discounts on chocolate.

Couldn't explain why he was okay with the same candy from the same companies w/o the spooky bag.

So what timeline are we talking about? Talking for a 40ish member of a bloodline where symptoms show up at 70-80 if it's going to happen.

I figured out how to recreate my favorite discontinued fast food item using what's still on their menu.

There's a lot of negativity around here (medical tests outstanding or 'I'm not looking until I'm in the follow-up appointment' in), so My Favorite Burger Back For Good is a real bright spot.

I'm still on some 'anti-Palestine' block lists for recognizing that and not wanting Palestinian former classmates, one of whom I met the year he immigrated, sent by Trump to where the IDF can get to them.

There WAS a significant difference between what the candidates were publicly backing!

A grand total of maybe 5 minutes of Survivor, and no other competition-style reality shows.

And that only because I knew someone born in the host country and she wanted me to watch the intro one night to see her birthplace.

And that it's different everywhere.

In my MA town, our poll workers hint hint nudge nudge use 'can you spell your surname and rattle off your address without reading it' as a secondary check. I've gotten The Look for even having my ID out until they process that no really THEY'LL need to read it.

There's a lot of knee-jerk reactions when it comes to sugar and calories.

My first visit to the local ER, the doctor technically made me promise to never have a colonoscopy bc my answer to 'what did you eat in the last 24 hours' was HALF the last prep meal. But full-sugar Jell-O, the evil horrors.

That's one of the things Dad figured out with his doctor early on in managing Type 2.

If it's forbidden but doesn't need to be, you WILL overindulge when you 'cheat'.

But if it's a pattern of life and can be anticipated? Not so likely.

(Yet relatives judged him for the twice a year pecan pie.)

Most of the 'and then I left the ACNA' stories I have ever read involved women who ended up there over homophobia discovering how much misogyny tends to be an understated prerequisite unless you are or are adjacent to a woman who pushes at the (possibly unsaid) boundaries.

Yeah.

I mean, there was 'oh no, the Episcopalians are trying to bring gay spouses to Lambeth and bringing girl germs to the bishops-only events, are they still in The Communion if they stand their ground' and now it's 'so, if you think the Archbishop Of Canterbury is ineligible to be a priest....'

And as the ancient Romans would have said 'in her year' - this is the first time women have been eligible to be bishops during the selection process.

Still some things I'm slightly worried about, but the groups in Africa the ACNA are tied to try to claim they're still Anglican have to be hating it.

An American Legion post near me has a covered dropbox visible from the road. They'd understandably prefer every flag that needs retirement gets it even if it means unattended drop-off.

Ever since the EO, I keep wondering who is going to get the legal blame the next time they hold a ceremony.

The entire progression of Grandma's dementia after diagnosis was in that bad research window.

If she'd just held where she was at diagnosis, so much would have been better. She would have still been abusive, but there's a reason we had to hide all the knives in her house from her.

Mine is the sheer number of researchers who got pushed out for daring to report a slowdown of progression that didn't affect that.

There are borderline antivaxers who get treated more kindly in professional medical circles than 'we showed a significant decrease in memory deterioration'.

They have under three months until the normal 2026 coins hit circulation.

Even without that law, the awareness campaign needed to start months ago to avoid Your Commemorative Coin Isn't Legal Tender Here *from people who still support MAGA* but think everyone around them is trying to rip them off.

They also had the obverse sides and features people knew to expect of those denominations.

When the Sacajawea dollars dropped, a bunch of parents at my school gave them to their teens. The cafeteria didn't recognize them as money. Lines to the tune of No Time To Eat.

Imagine the fights now.

Depends on where you are.

According to a conversation I overheard a decade ago, one of the easiest ways to end a research project into local Jewish history where my parents grew up is to reveal an interest in knowing where the cemetery is.

(Meanwhile it was already visible on Google Maps.)

I don't have kids, I just have clear memories back to age 3. I was the family disposal unit for broccoli stalks before I turned 10 and still had people trying tricks like after 30 because not eating things I perceived as rotten on command was a sin to and against Grandma.

Some kids like bitter.

You just described two ways to make vegetables I like to eat plain either unappetizing or actually sickening (I do not know what the heck is up with the cheddar sauce).

Let the kids just try the vegetables first without being cutesy about it. Multiple cooking methods incl raw where appropriate.

Why are these always the 'you can 'hide' vegetables in anything, including in foods where they're not capable of being hidden in taste texture or appearance, because the risk of teaching kids that vegetables are a food contaminant is never a problem at all' contingent?

Laboring and obedience.

It's the One True Way to do it, and costs of money and time do not matter because the self-chosen authorities have spoken.

These always remind me of how many things in the kitchen my grandmother considered divorce-worthy and sins, including allergies in non-widowed women.

And may have exactly the things you're avoiding.

I can eat cheap box mac, I like 'put American cheese on warm noodles', cheese sauce boxed can make me sick, and gold-standard baked has hidden hard crispy bits that are dangerous for me.

I'm not spending more time to make ingredients inedible.

Or saw that happen to other people.

Seven years since the ban lifted means a significant number of people in that age bracket spent time too young to take part but old enough to pay attention to what was happening.

They're also all old enough to remember how TV sports has changed as it expanded.

I keep drafting and redrafting this.

So many relatives who served were in offices, support facilities (the great-uncle disabled at Pearl Harbor), or 'we need soldiers over here preparing just in case the enemy tries to invade that way'.

'Warfighters' is infuriating to me. The others count!