In theory once you stay at a dosage of metformin for long enough the unfortunate side effects go away. In practice it’s been a year and I still can’t trust a fart.

Sadly, Florida doesn’t have the right geology for mines.

Partner was all “hey, you have too much stuff in your purse/backpack” so we sat down and sorted my backpack items into

• Need at work (this pile turned out to be empty, since anything I need at work I might need on a hike)
• Need when hiking
• Both

And now my backpack just has “both” in it. It’s a tad lighter. I’m still worried I’ll need something and not have it because anxiety.

I’m making up two “hiking” bags with the same items and we’ll keep one in each of our cars, so I can grab it and add it to my backpack as needed.

I’m still not confident this will solve any problem I had, I was OK with the weight of my backpack before.

My brother ended up lost in a major city, 3 hours away from home and our parents. He didn’t know where he parked his car, just that it was “at a hotel”. Drugs were almost certainly involved.

His strategy was to wander around asking to borrow strangers’ cell phones until he ended up in a gas station run by an immigrant couple who were OMG lovely. They let him use their phone and they fed him until my parents could drive over and pick him up.

My parents found his car by posting “lost car” ad on Craigslist with a reward.

Anyways, my strategy’s probably to find a local library or equivalent and email my partner and friends a “please help” message. Hopefully someone lends/gives me clothes along the way.

Edit: oops, I said 3 miles. It was 3 hours. Updated.

Ugh, the public. Most folks are lovely. Some folks want to ruin my day. Guess which one spawn camps the newspaper rack and/or reference desk. (I’m glaring at you, Ms. “Coughs On Everything” and Sir “Let me tell you about my childhood trauma, also the teens are too loud, and no I won’t sit further from the teen section while I make my video calls about how trans folk are liars”)

Source: my stint as a trans public librarian.

The concussions probably don’t help with decision-making skills. But, it looks like there are schemes/systems in place to try and minimize the risk of poor financial planning: pensions, 401ks, and other benefits. I think that’s neat.

TBF, (American) football players risk increasing traumatic brain injuries and break their bodies to play the game. That compensation has to help them deal with the aftermath of that for the rest of their life.

CEOs… I dunno.

Yep. I suspect we’ll be fine for cheap/low quality candy, thanks to native corn syrup. Sadly my tastes run a bit fancier.

I’m not sure. A quick audit of my clothing says Peru, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Poland, and China.

I’m also not sure how the tariffs will end up.

Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first–the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.

I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don’t grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.

I really don’t know what will be in short supply. I didn’t want to hoard stuff I won’t use, but I don’t want to run out of stuff I need.

My friend, also naturalized and from Venezuela, knows he’s not safe. We’ve talked. It sucks.

Can’t fool me, that’s clearly a pile of Twizzlers around an empty filament spool.

I also have Mondly installed, but haven’t used it much. It’s British.

I’ve been enjoying Drops. Wikipedia says they’re currently a Norwegian company.

I think they were delayed, except for China. But it is hard to keep up.

I used to get letters from Who’s Who among American High School Students. Wikipedia has a write-up about that category of questionable practice.

I’ve used similarly-titled books from the late 1800s/early 1900s for research, but nowadays we have the Internet.

I did that last month at a new-to-me grocery store. Saved $5! Jenny needs to use her gas points, though. She has a ton.

What’s your pain med of choice? I like children’s chewable ibuprofen because I already have too many pills to swallow.

Why not share it with teacher?

Lucky! My local DMV doesn’t take people without an appointment, and the only way to make an appointment is online. If you try over the phone they’ll tell you to ask the nice people at the local library to help you.

Btw, they didn’t tell the library about this policy. As a librarian, I do not like being an extension of the DMV, but I try and help my patrons. Including the dickhead that argued for the defunding of the library but now needs help making an appointment.