Lauren Brian @lbrianwrites@computerfairi.es

The question now becomes, do I lay down and admit that I need to rest to recover from the dang oven, or do I live with this woozy headache and brain fog for the entirety of the day?

Me: I'm going to make my gramma's cobbler recipe today!

Me, a little later: Oh no is this a heart attack??

Me, again: No you idiot. You cook a cobbler in the oven and your oven tries to kill you every time you use it.

Oh yeah.

Siiigh. Time to be the guy with all the windows open in January.

@quartzen Interesting!

"I want cheap plant hangers," I thought, "so I'll find some DIY macrame patterns on the internet."

*every pattern is hyper-monetized, full of ads, and requires a separate purchase of one or more explainer pdfs and signing a noncompete*

Well, heck. What do?

"Oh wait," I said, "I live near a uni library that existed in the 1970s."

*uni library is full of vintage how-to books, free, no waiting or signups*

the LC call number for macrame is TT840, apparently.

So I was walking through the uni library the other day, and passed by the Delany section.
"Oh, I liked Babel-17," I said. "I'll just pick a book at random and try it."

Friends, the book my hand landed on was HOGG.

I opened to a random page.
I was not prepared.
I spent fifteen minutes opening to random pages to see if it something was different, but of course, it was not.

I'm not sure even the internet can shock me now.

@mavica_again That's a pretty awesome superpower you have, thanks!

@mavica_again I managed to sneak in right before closing. This is the unidentified charger. The work consensus was "probably earbuds?"

@mavica_again Yeah, my fam has always been early internet adopters, so it makes sense we'd have a modem from slightly before things got really standardized. We were thinking of selling it on ebay, but for now I'm off to wiki DIN cables. Thanks for giving it a name! :)

@mavica_again If you're interested in odd power chargers, my family recently unearthed this power cable for a long-discarded DSL modem and I haven't quite been able to discover a name for it.

@mavica_again Shoot, sorry, it's all packed up into storage. If I remember and have some free time today I'll try to sneak back down and snap a pic.

oh right. And about 5 Apple air pod cases. Aren't those things like really expensive?

Sorting completed, hurrah! Highlights include:

-- an analog wall clock;
-- as nearly as I can tell a real cashmere scarf;
-- somebody's polyester interview tie;
-- an apple-brand tablet pencil that's also magnetic, and;
-- a dell brand tablet pencil;
-- a very suss off-brand chip card reader;
-- and finally, a power charger for something no one can identify.

Today's sorting includes:

-- 5 unopened packages of wide-ruled, loose-leaf paper;
-- NanoJuice brand fancy portable charger;
-- a Very Suspicious Knife;
-- and 15 apartment keys.

The number of apartment keys is ... alarmingly large this year. Usually it's around 3 to 5. And the Suspicious Knife is Very Suspicious.

@tempest Truth, lol. But not unexpected. We have a high relatively short-term transplant population, and an oddly high number of serious deal-hunters.

70% off christmas candy at the grocery store today. My breakfast was chocolate.