Well, look. I cannot deny that this July has seemed one thousand miles long, nor can I claim that I have made the most of my circumstances or managed to be, seem, or feel particularly effective. What I can say is that the second-half-of-year Millions Book Preview has dropped, so at least we have that. I can also say that we have clawed our way past the halfway point of July, and there are a mere ten days remaining. Is that an insane number of days to have remaining in the month in this economy? Yes, for sure, and I…
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A long-overdue links round-up! The fact of its overdueness means that it contains many, many good links for you to read and enjoy. Some are quite sad. None are about the war in Ukraine, but a few are about COVID. You can just skip those. In fact you can skip straight to the last one, which is just a drunk couple with a kid explaining Paw Patrol to some sober people with no kids. Their desperate sincerity kind of got me in on Paw Patrol, except no it didn’t because I’ve seen that shit and it sucks. Why can’t kids…
Leave a CommentMy Friday the 13ths tend to be good, but I’m getting the results of a COVID test today, which feels very very cursed. Pray for me; I really want to do sister night with my sister tonight, and I very much want to spend some bonding time with my nephew this weekend. I miss him! He is such a good boy! Anyway, let’s have a links round-up! I’m going to start with an article that is partly rather grim about the future of the pandemic, but also reassures us that the pandemic will end someday. This is helpful to me.…
Leave a CommentListen, I will never recover from the first link in this links round-up, and that is just because I think it’s quite rude that someone walked into my family home and took numerous secret recordings of how we talk and how other people feel about how we talk. YES it took several years before my brother-in-law was able to figure out how to participate in our conversations because he was too polite to interrupt us and therefore he never got to say anything at all. YES I show engagement by peppering people with questions. Please let me have my privacy…
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