What made me happy today?

[Naja Noir]

What song was it? Not that I will probably recognize it -- nearly all my rock and pop musical knowledge stopped around 1980, except, I guess, the Traveling Wilburys.

Tennessee by Arrested Development. I had a clear memory of the band playing on "In Living Color" back in the day. Finding the video, got me to the band, which got me to the song.

Eta: I'm one of those people who become obsessed by songs and will stop at nothing till I get to them.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

So, I was in a shopping mall's food court earlier today, trying to order some food, when a woman cut in front of me to complain that they didn't have a men's room and a women's room.

Apparently, due to a change of policy, the mall decided not to call them that because it would look discriminatory against gender-fluid people. Good. So now, all bathrooms are simply called that: bathrooms.

But this lady wouldn't have it. No, no, no, no. There must be a clear division. Either men's room or women's room. Nothing in between.

I looked up an appropriate image on my phone and showed her this:

Sadly, it made her clutch her pearls, shout that we were all going to hell, and storm out.

The clerk asked me what the image was. I showed it to him. I got a high-five and (very) small discount. All in all, a nice day.

 

[DLC]

Everybody clapped

 

[Selluwud]

I'm happy my daughter is going to have my wife and I over for breakfast this morning for a father's day celebration with her little ones, they live within a short golf cart ride here on the farm.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Actually yesterday. Climbing nearly half a mile of steep stone steps to reach the "Balanced Rock" at Wisconsin's Devil's Lake.

 

[ps102]

I just got back my grades for the year. I'm not thrilled with them but considering I went to university for a week or two and did the rest from home because of all the bullcrap that happened, I can take it.

My average grade for the year comes down to 77.9%. I wanted something like 90% but alas... I can live with it.

I'm just happy the exam board didn't become suspicious of my attendance. I was low key worried that they would question me about it, but it never happened.

Now all of that stuff is behind me. I don't want to see university related things until October!

 

[Rath Darkblade]

As a history nerd, this video made me very happy.

Don't miss the post-credits little dance.

If you're interested, I would very much recommend Dr Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guides to Britain (i.e. in the Middle Ages, in the Elizabethan Age, during the Restoration, and during the Regency). They are fascinating. They go not only into clothing, but also into food, law, travel (and how you would travel, and why), literature, poetry, where to stay, and much more. Highly recommended!

 

[Woof]

It was so quiet in my garden today I could hear the little birds in the apple tree at the other end tap-tapping away at the feeder. Still not quite as quiet as I'd ideally like (bottom of Yr Wyddfa, miner's track off season) but blissfully close.

 

[Luxuria]

I made homemade lemonade today. Yum!

 

[Set2Stun]

Oh nice, yeah when limes were cheap here for some reason a few months back, I was buying them by the bag and making a jug of limeade every week. Delicious stuff, and frozen cannot compare at all.

 

[Homer Potvin]

when limes were cheap here for some reason a few months back

There was a massive glut on the market. Wholesale, they dropped from about $70 a 200/CT case to $52 or so. My big Mexican joint goes through at least 30 cases a week. Well over $100K a year in just lime purchases alone. We nearly went out of business when they hit $120+ during Covid/cartel takeovers.

 

[Set2Stun]

I absolutely love these food and beverage reality posts from Homer. It all makes sense now !

Edit - that is a shit ton of limes per year, god damn

 

[Homer Potvin]

Right in March with the limes. You can tell it's a market thing by the way it flatlines. There's half a dozen vendors expressed here. When all of them bottom out like that, they're competing for customers in the middle of a flood.

 

[Naja Noir]

My youngest graduated high school today, she's an awesome, smart, super talented kid and I'm lucky to be her mom. I was equally happy for her, but sad for me. It feels like yesterday I was taking her to preschool.

 

[DLC]

People don't realise we pay very little for food in the scheme of things. 120 years ago, maybe half of everything you earned went to feeding yourself and family. Further back you go, the less you had to spend on anything else. That's right, blubber blobs.
Out here the cost of farm inputs have gone up about 30% in a year due to {political jibberjabber nobody wants to hear}.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Very true. As recently as the years preceding the French Revolution, there were frequent and repeated very famous famines in France, which was one factor in why the Revolution happened.

Equally famous is the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 50s.

Fortunately, the Western world has become better at managing food, to the extent that the last famine in the Western world occurred in Canada in 1950: the 1950 Caribou Inuit famine. "Only" 60 people died, which is still horrifying, but it is as naught when compared to, say, the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61, which killed between 15 and 55 million people. Unsurprisingly, since that time, most famines have been confined to Africa, with one more occurring in North Korea.

And to end this post on a slightly happier note: the phrase "political jibberjabber" reminds me so much of JibJab. Does anyone else remember that?

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

I should have gone to bed a while ago but I keep seeing concert footage of the band I'm seeing in September (Sleep Token, for those curious), and I just get so excited that sleep feels like a "not now" thing.

 

[Set2Stun]

AAAAAAAHHHHH my laptop is charging with the new adapter !!

Thank the gods. I am going to be oh so gentle with it going forward.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

The wandering garter snakes have returned to the garden.

This is the equivalent of the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, only more useful.

 

[Rad Scribbler]

Woke up this morning to another bright, shiny, sunny day. The weather forecast is a bit cooler than the previous few days, but awesome nonetheless.