Drusas

I very mildly regret getting my upper ear pierced when I was a teen. It caused the collagen to push to the back of my ear, creating a little bump. It has gotten somewhat better over the years.

Books that I have already read more than once:

The Stranger by Camus The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo The Fisherman by John Langan

Thanks again! Glad you had such a good experience and I’m looking forward to going there myself.

Thank you for sharing. The language barrier is mostly the thing that has held me back. I know some vocabulary related to food, but that’s about it.

How well can one get by as a tourist without speaking Vietnamese? Vietnam has been around the top of my list for places to visit for ages.

Interesting. My experience was the opposite; I couldn’t practice German at all because everybody would switch to English.

I’ve always liked the number nine because it feels round. Not the shape, mind you. The concept of nine.

Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now

I’d just like to point out that there is no “taste of fish”. Different species can taste very different from one another.

Cod is the most popular among people who otherwise don’t eat much fish because it is versatile and light on flavor. Salmon is one of the more flavorful fish, so I’m not sure what was up with the salmon you had. Mackerel is very flavorful (the oily fishes in general are), which you may or may not like. Sole or flounder are also popular among the lighter flavored fish, and easy to cook. You might like them battered and fried. You should try fresh tuna as well.

I also am a big fan of sole a la meunier (with butter, parsley, lemon, and capers). I’d also recommend trying teriyaki salmon. I like to make fish chowder with cod. Mackerel I tend to make shioyaki style (while baked with a bunch of salt, served with lemon or ponzu).

Out here in Seattle, if you give your two weeks notice as a tech employee to Amazon, and you tell them that you’re going to Oracle, they’ll just send you home that day. Probably not every team/manager, but it’s a thing.

And I did this back when we had 40-man raids as the norm. It is a job.

I experienced this last year for the first time.

I don’t think our other dog really understood. I think we would have had to wait longer for her to come sniff in order for her to have understood.

I was afraid that I wouldn’t want to use the piece of furniture that we had always cuddled on and that we chose for her euthanasia, but after a week or two, it was fine. I don’t even think of it now, when using that furniture.

It was definitely the right choice.

I guess I’m suddenly glad that all of their controllers are too large for my hands…?

I learned more about leadership than one would expect by being a leader in a major WoW guild back in the day. Managing people is managing people.

Do you mean specifically in regards to euthanasia?

My dogs absolutely love the waiting room and meeting the people in it.

Also, for those who can manage it, it’s far better to have your dog put down in their own home.

Or Newfoundland or a poodle or a lab or a spaniel or a…

This is a good thought, but definitely not right. My dogs in the 80s and '90s were all terrified of the vet. Early aughts as well.

Since then, none of my pets have been afraid of the vet. The culture seems to have changed. All of my dogs have loved going to the vet since then. They go there and everybody loves on them. The cats are scared, because cats are always scared when you bring them somewhere weird like that, but the dogs mostly aren’t. Even my rabbit would get over the car ride and like the attention.

That’s not advice.

I like them. I like watching them walk around with their little heads bobbing to their steps.