Good Things Friday (127) and Link Love
July 30, 2021
1. Our power went out right when I needed to prep a bottle for Smol and though I had a flash of annoyance, I thought you know what? Opportunity! We’re going to practice our disaster scenario skills! (Tons of good comments there that I didn’t reply to at the time because it was December 2019 right before the pandemic became a reality for us, so I need to go back and revisit.) I’ve been after PiC to do a dry run for a while and he’s been reluctant because he doubted that he’d like it. But I wanted to confirm, I don’t want to find out our supplies suck when we’re already miserable and stressed. It was fun! We heated water on the stove, cooked up three Mountain House pouches (thanks to Stacking Pennies for recommending them seven years ago!), and used our little silicon lantern for light at the dinner table. We didn’t really need it since it’s summerish right now and the light lasts until nearly 8 pm but hey, it’s a dry run. We also cranked up PiC’s crank radio to find the emergency station but we couldn’t find it. Something to figure out! The food was actually quite good. Chock full of sodium and I’m parched but it was tasty. PiC said they’d be exponentially tastier after a day of energy expenditure if we were to use them after hiking.
2. I’ve been running the robot vacuum every few nights now that Smol Acrobat is all over the floors, and it’s really quite satisfying to push a button, walk away and have wide swaths of the floor be clean later. After the fiasco with the cleaners, I needed a cleaning win that wasn’t using my precious energy.
Challenges this week: As people start to socialize more and we get invitations to things, I’m having anxiety nightmares about overbooking. One dream was about trying to make it to two weddings in one day! It was a mess.
Using these conversations as a guide, I’m totally unapproachable.
Understanding Batman Fans’ Undying Thirst for Robin’s Firm, Firm Ass. Nicola Scott did us all a great service with that shot.
The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot
I don’t know why I read this, it’s not making me feel less bitter about the choices people are making that are literally killing them and their community and destroying the healthcare system. But: In Alabama and Louisiana, partisan opposition to vaccine surges alongside Delta variant
‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures
This is really sick: I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax.
Hm, I need to be less approachable while also not getting massively penalized for it.
I wish this for you!
It works for me for peculiar reasons.