I love a faceplant, and this is up there with the best of them. Excellent job nuggeting, Nugget. You do your name proud.

Fuck, I’m going to try that. Thanks!

Unavoidable timers. For example:

1. Devices with low battery and the charger is out of reach.
2. Drinking a bunch of water.
3. Playing an album with nothing queued afterwards.

Along the same lines: incidental timeboxing. My toaster takes 2 mins, and leaving the kitchen means I’m likely to end up with sad cold toast, so I better stay and deal with some of the kitchen mess in those two minutes. The phrase “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean” has been strangely useful to me.

Allowing things to be partially done, but not in a state where is going to be a big problem. For example, the above kitchen mess.

• A cup and bowl with food left in it will be hard to clean and attracts bugs and grows mold, and that’s a problem.
• An empty but dirty cup and bowl is better but still harder to clean.
• A rinsed cup and bowl filled with water left in the sink is easiest to clean, so that’s the least problematic state to leave it in, and it’s not much harder to do that than it is leaving the food-filled cup and bowl there to begin with.

I’m deeply jealous of your cat that also doesn’t hold a grudge about travelling or having their temperature rudely taken.

What a rad little dude he is.

Aw, he just needed the right person. Thanks for being that person. And thanks for being a person who shares all their nice pics and stories with the rest of us.

The little head bump gets me right in the heart.

The Epstein files obviously contain a lot of information about rape and trafficking, which is very understandably and rightly in the spotlight. But what the files also contain is very detailed information about exactly how our laws and financial systems are being actively exploited to maintain the power of a select few. That is something that is much harder to write a quick article about, by design, but we haven’t even seen some of these names mentioned in the media:

• de Rothschild (with a very illustrative diagram in EFTA01114424)
• Thiel
• Rockefeller
• Murdoch
• von Habsburg

And those are just individuals, not companies. We haven’t heard anything about JP Morgan Chase, Sotheby’s, Goldman Sachs… Or even the universities like Harvard.

You can’t usually pull a single short damning quote from an email for them because it’s not as simple as the horror of one person raping children, but it lays the foundation of how this horror was allowed to continue at such a large scale by so many people.

Excellent job on taking care of Lester. I can tell he’s in caring hands and I hope you both have many wonderful (and URTI-free, fingers crossed for that) years together.

I’d say never feel silly about a vet visit. Even if why you booked it is no longer an issue (which is definitely something that can and does happen for any pet owner), you can always use the time to pick their brains, learn new things and build a good relationship with them.

Lots of snuggles.

It seems like you already have a good handle on the rest already, even if 3 URTIs in 5 months is no fun for anyone.

It might be worth giving your house a thorough clean to see if that helps. Maybe there’s a source of irritants (molds, pollens, that kind of thing) that is only really problematic for someone with a weakened immune system, and therefore more prone to secondary infections.