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Love a well-packed baguette.

He’s the head of the military isn’t he? So according to the rules, they must obey him.

They’ve wrapped their entire sense of identity in working, their role at work

Speaking as an actual boomer, that is true of the men of my generation in particular. Many of them have zero hobbies or interests outside work, to the extent that retirement can kill them through depression. Their wives raised their children and run their social lives for them, and they often don’t even have their own friends. So if their wife dies or leaves, they have to get another one or face the emptiness. These same men usually harbour huge resentment against women in general, blame us for ruining everything with our feminist nonsense. I’ve spent more than 50 years of my adult life dealing with these arseholes. My male friends are mostly much younger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme

It’s a great yarn.

Carrots are dirt cheap where I live. I buy a kilo, peel them, chop them into batons and store them in the fridge in an airtight container. Satisfying crunch and full of vitamins. Dip into humus for extra yum.

On the plus side, there’s free WiFi in here, the food is not bad and I’m getting some very nice drugs. My friends bring me chocolate.

On the downside I have to use a walker to get to the toilet and two of the women in the room snore.

Microsoft drew the line. They wanted me to buy a new computer for their new OS. Not happening.

My house spiders are cool. They eat the flies etc and I fish them out of the way before I have a shower. The only disagreement we have is over their little lair in the kitchen. There’s a tiny hole in the skirting board in one corner, and cobwebs gather there. Now and then I brush away the webs and plaster over the hole. A week later the hole is back and the webs too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnaam_Kaur

Meanwhile I’m making do with two black hairs on my chinny chin chin.

I’ve also just moved to Linux (my first computer ran on MS-DOS) and it was easy peasy. Moving my data over was taking a while, so I stepped out to brings the bins in. Slipped on ice and am now in hospital, recovering from surgery to a wrecked knee. Looks like I’ll have plenty of time to move the data when I get home.

Just now posted about him, what a car crash of a guy.

This fellow for starters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Washing soda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_carbonate

I’m hit! Woman down! Slipped on the ice and am now in hospital with a fucked-up knee. Waiting for an MRI scan, spending the night here. Codeine isn’t helping, hoping for some hillbilly heroin.

On the bright side I have excellent friends and neighbours. I feel loved.

Getting old is a sniper’s alley. You’re running through, and all around you people are getting picked off, dropping to the ground. Cancer, stroke, dementia, falling down the stairs. Somehow you’re still going, brilliant! But then you find a lump, or get chest pains…

So far I’m one of the lucky ones, still dodging the bullets but hoping for a good clean end when it’s my turn.

His family and their church were super strict about everything, he had lots of similar stories.

A blunder.

Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi Schmidt called for careful consideration of the way forward to protect Samoa from religious extremism and violence.

Anecdotal for sure, but someone I know was brought up Catholic in Samoa. Aged about five he was caught in the heinous sin of playing football on the Sabbath. His punishment was kneeling on concrete for hours holding a Bible in each outstretched arm. I doubt there’s worse “religious extremism and violence” going on than torturing a child for playing.

The forecast for next week: “Scotland to be blanketed with sleet and drizzle.”

If I’m baking or cooking to a recipe with unusual ingredients I definitely make a list. I’ve got a master list of staples on my phone with check boxes that I sometimes use. But mostly I wing it. Top tip: never do your grocery shopping when you’re hungry.