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Roxy (cat) and Jasper (guinea pig)

wide shallow bowl. she'll eat to the bottom on the right side, then complain even though the left side is untouched. some cats are just special.

I dunno - none of my brothers are really my best friend level now we're adults. we're friends, we enjoy time together, but not my best friend, not the person I go to with fears and worries, hopes and dreams.

but absolutely best "grabs a shovel and a car when I say I have a body to bury" emergency backup. the brother who doesn't respond for 2 weeks to a social invite ("hey, sorry I missed your message about last week") is always there when I say I have an emergency.

1. did I pay for the ebook/ have I read a lot of the author's work for free? do I feel like it's worth giving them money?

2. do I want other people I know to read this book?

if either of these is true, I buy it, even if it's unlikely I'll reread it. if it's 1, I try to buy a book I haven't read of theirs instead, but that's not always an option.

I've bought multiple copies of some books because I keep shoving them at people. I've given away at least 3 copies of Feed by Mira Grant, for example.

paper calendars work ok. apps are better at collating and predicting based on past data, and therefore giving you a better idea when and what to expect and whether it's "normal".

apps can help you provide a condensed report, which helps when seeking help from a doctor. it shouldn't work that way, but at least in my anecdotal experience, the Dr who dismisses handwritten notes for 3 months, was more reasonable when it was "data collected via app".

I stopped using an app a few years ago, because of privacy issues, but there are absolutely good reasons people still use them when a calendar works.

when we had a lot of cats and the occasional intruder cat, "duels" between one of ours and one intruder were most common. meet on neutral territory, hurl insults, maybe there's an attack but maybe not. and only after sufficient insults.

this was a specifically male behavior, too. we got a young female cat, and the 2 older males were horrified when she came and jumped their opponent. she was very no holds barred, get off my lawn, don't mess with my guys. a different time, a different young female cat was equally willing to jump in swinging claws and skip the insults.

typically the other male cats would be hanging around, observing and jumping in only if things moved from neutral ground to their territory.

in my experience, there's not even as much consistency therapist to therapist, psychiatrist to psychiatrist, as there is in the rest of the medical field.

I love my psychiatrist, but what I love is that she's very much about staying up to date and knowing what she's prescribing, and probing to see if it's working (I am a terrible judge the worse off I am. no, really, it's fine, I can just wake up a little earlier and add a panic attack to my morning routine, don't change my drugs. huh..ok, since we upped the dose, I haven't had a panic attack, I guess that was a good idea.)

I like this. in my family, I figured it out at about 3 or 4, promptly told the 2 year old, and broke the reality to the next two before they could even start to believe there was a real Santa.

instead, Santa was the spirit of Christmas, so any of us could be Santa if we gave presents with no expectation of recognition or a return gift. much more Secret Santa than magical man leaving presents.

this did lead to several years where the youngest would give away all their toys, only to then reclaim them after presents were opened. generosity isn't an easy concept for the pre-schoolers.

I'd say it's about $15-20 for an average lunch here, in Seattle. transit is fairly cheap, $5.50 to and from work unless you live far enough to go through a couple zones, at which point I think it's still under $8 round trip.

I use onenote at work for all my notes. tabs and individual pages let me organize things so nothing is too long to scroll and find what I need. I can put text, screenshot, and hyperlink (to another part of one note or outside link), and a link to a pdf or excel file. I can add check boxes to whichever line items.

once I've got a nice set of notes, I can share either the entire notebook, the section, or just that page with the next person. or if they're a bit of a luddite, I can print it out and maintain format (mostly). the most recent version broke emailing a page, but if you're still running an older version of one note, it embeds it, with formatting, without being a pdf.

got something you need to paste in all the time? I've got one page where each text box is one copy/paste comment. clicking the header automatically selects all the text in just that box.

like OP, I tend to use one note at home for D&D, but if I can find something just as good I'm happy to try it. work leaves me with MS Office.

congratulations, your immune system doesn't suck.

between migraines and colds, I'm down to just 1 sick day left. that's despite wearing a mask, washing my hands, etc. the last cold just laid me out for a week. migraines (which at less than 3 a year are too rare for the Dr to give me meds) come with visual sparkles that make working on a computer pretty impossible. most cold meds also make me incredibly sleepy, so I can try to work through it - or I can sleep and get better faster. this was a bad year. last year I barely needed sick days, hopefully next year will be more like last year. Masks help. work from home, avoiding the public, helps. but my immune system is just kinda crap, so I just work through what I can, and call in sick when I can't.

she doesn't drink tea (yet), but she does know head butting my hand when I'm holding a cup is a bad idea!