Mmm, lebkuchen.
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Had baked camembert for lunch yesterday and Chinese food for dinner. Bit of a rest day today before the main event tomorrow 
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Mmm, raclette.
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Now I’m starting the day hungry.
Merry Christmas folk!
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Or happy Monday. Whatever floats your boat.
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And so, we are in the perineum of the year - the leftover useless bit between two fun times.
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Aka the time our twins have their birthday. I’d prefer a break, to be honest.
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We were invited to brunch by friends we rarely see because they assumed it‘s the „quiet time of the year where people don‘t have plans“…. sadly my answer was „we can make it before our shopping trip for the NYE party other than that we have no time“ —we have to be really careful not to „overbook“ on events between the years.
It is also high time I stop having to spell out New Year‘s Eve… 3 words where one suffices… „Silvester“ → I think it‘s one of the catholic name days and it stuck over here as name for New Year‘s Eve. So if I write about having a Silvester Party you don‘t need to think we‘re watching Rocky or Rambo movies….
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Obviously you are having a party for a certain puddy tat!
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Posted an item to the South coast of the UK. It arrived at a sorting centre there on NYE. It’s now in Northern Ireland…
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It has been very windy…
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The NI one is the undecipherable address one I think. It’s where a human looks at it and decides where it goes.
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Yeah, that’s what I’d read too. I’m amazed it got to Southampton and then they decided it was undecipherable.
Sounds like the label has been damaged. It was a printed returns label so it’s got my address on it too but not holding out much hope.
Given it’s a tracked service you’d think one of myself or the recipient could clarify the destination.
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Since we don’t have a Shower Thoughts thread (I’ve contemplated making one, but not sure it’s actually needed), I’ll share some things that have been in camping out rent-free in my head:
Everybody has their own, personal distinction between a chip/crisp and chip/crisp crumbs, but nobody (not even me?) ever wants to talk about it.
I couldn’t be friends with Alton Brown. He had a daughter and could have named her Golden Brown, but he did not.
But. At the same time, I think:
Llama Llama (of Llama Llama Red Pajama) was named the equivalent of Human Human. I’m not saying I know why Llama Llama’s father isn’t in the picture, but, presumably, one of the parents was responsible for this name choice and the other obviously knew a red flag when they saw it.
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Hearing the name Neville Neville, always makes me sing Bowie.
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Shower thoughts are awesome. I remember it turning up in the early days of reddit and I spent a straight hour with my mouth open thinking “But you’re right, that IS true” to a hundred weird things.
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Ahead of an upcoming office reorganisation I’ve removed almost 12 years of notebooks from my desk.
Part of me just wants to shred them without looking at their contents. The nostalgic part of me wants to skim through them as a reminder of what I’ve worked on over the years.
It’s a Friday so I suspect the latter might win out.
Do other people still keep physical notes? I have never really been able to transition to digital note taking. There’s something nice about scribbling with pen and paper.
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I keep at most two sheets of scribbled notes. By the time I’ve internalised the contents, I’m ready to bin them and maybe start another.
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I use a mix of both notebooks and scribbled sheets of notes. I have a notebook/diary, which usually gets taken around to meetings, plus some notebooks for specific things that I know I want to keep (like ‘how to’ notes for certain software etc.). Loose sheets of scrawlings are typically for desk work, more temporary in nature, and periodically get purged once they’ve served their purpose.
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