I don’t have to dispose of the oil

I’m immune compromised. I wear an N95 mask whenever I go out. Sometimes to change things up, I’ll draw a smiley (or other) mouth on it with felt tip markers. Just need to work out how to disguise everything above the mask in a way that doesn’t look like a deliberate disguise.

A red sail! The Amazons are on the lake!

It’s “its”, not “it’s”, unless you mean “it is”, in which case it is “it’s”.

Why do Americans use MM/DD/YY for date, but not mm:ss:hh for time? Doesn’t that make the same amount of sense?

Can’t sleep. It’s 2:53am. Yuk.

“Why can’t you be normal!?" Ummm why can’t you be weird?

Define “normal”. I am “normal“, whatever “normal” means. Everyone else is weird — why can’t people say what they mean, instead of vaguely hinting and expecting me to know what they mean?

I also use voyager; never seen avatars, didn’t know they existed.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=3.5mm+stereo+plug

If they make you take a polygraph test, insist on a tarot reading and a full personal horoscope as well. Between the three of them, there’s no way that they can’t find the truth!

5BX

You wot mate?

writting a letter

Walking the dog while listening to podcasts or audio books.

Chemotherapy destroyed my immune system and my hearing. But the cancer didn’t kill me, so it’s better than the alternative.

Your mom

“Back in my day”

In my 50s, just realised and self diagnosed in the last few months. Also feeling a bit lost, life would have been so much easier if I’d been diagnosed forty years ago. I feel like everybody else knew and didn’t tell me.

Paint

German is my first language, and also my third. When I started school I had to learn English; over the years I didn’t speak much German and I have forgotten a lot. Now I have started to re-learn German again.

But over the years I’ve dabbled in learning other languages — and not mastered any of them — (French, Spanish, Latin, Klingon, Esperanto, Yiddish); I find the differences in syntax and sentence structure fascinating. Now that I’m (involuntarily) retired and have plenty of time, I should go back and study some more.

Even just the weirdnesses and inconsistencies of English I find fascinating — why do “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing? How can I be “disheveled” or “disgruntled” but not “sheveled” or “gruntled”?

And my boss told me off for being ambiguous on the phone:

“Hello, Kevin’s phone”
“Oh. Is Kevin not there?”
“Yes, he’s not. May I take a message?”
“Can I speak to him?”
“He’s not here”
“But you just said he was!”
“No, I agreed with you that he isn’t here”
“You should say what you mean” …