Thingy - Western US

I love when dogs cross their legs like that.

Hobby: Doing mobility 10-15 min a day.

Habit: Taking fiber supplements before every meal.

That’s awesome!

My dog was never much for belly rubs. Then he spent a couple weeks at my parents, whose dog had a routine of belly rubs every morning before getting out of bed. Now he demands belly rubs most mornings.

Keep busy until enough time passes that the pain subsides and you can move on.

Hard to say exactly. Seems like there is some sort of system where certain tattoos convey certain powers that are associated with different gangs.

Teenage girl in Singapore (I think) has ability to create fire. Her mother suddenly dies and it turns out is more than what she knew. Ends up joining a gang of women and trying to investigate her mother’s death. I’m only about 25% of the way in, so that’s largely all I can say about it.

When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee. It’s been sitting on my Libby queue for a while and I figured I’d better read it before the hold expires in a couple of months. I’m glad I did, since it’s been very interesting thus far.

I’ve always heard you should name a dog with words containing hard consonants, because they can differentiate them better than vowels and soft consonants. I wonder how that plays into the results of this study (and if what I’ve heard has a scientific basis to back it up).

My guy hates water, but he gets copious amounts of chicken in the bath; so he tolerates them.

By the Waters of Babylon may be my favorite short story I’ve read.

I like this harness. I can unclip both the neck and torso straps so my dog just steps one foot into the harness and then I clip it around his neck and back. Plus it has a loop on the front you can use that should help if your dog pulls.

Florida(wo)man. Even wealth doesn’t protect you from being absolutely batshit when you live in Florida.

That reminds me of a road in AZ that had signage in KM when I was a kid. I guess it was a part of this program and it never got changed back? It was always a mindfuck suddenly seeing kms instead of miles on road trips through the area.

Yup it is part of the annual code of conduct training at my work.

I also had to attend sexual harassment and alcohol abuse lectures as a part of freshman orientation at my university back 20ish years ago. It didn’t cost extra, so I’m not sure what the title is referring to. The title makes it seem like they are infuriated by the required training in general, which really doesn’t make much sense to me.

I’ve probably needed PT for the past couple years. However, last time I went for an acute injury, it cost me $1200 in scans. The result was them saying there was nothing visibly wrong and it would probably clear up on its own in a couple of more weeks (they told me 4-6 weeks post injury and this was on week 3). So I essentially paid all that money for nothing.

I’m in the fortunate position that I can technically afford these kinds of expenses, but I still put off care because of the price. I completely understand why people in a worse position than me would absolutely not go to the doctor.

You still have to have a valid ticket to board the plane. So I’m not sure what the concern would be.

Needs more marshmallows

Vegan butter chicken.

I haven’t tried any of the recipes online, but in my more veg phase of life I would use store bought sauce and tofu and it was always delicious.