Subjective list of crossword assistance methods, in order from least cheat-y to most cheat-y:

Chinese five spice is made in China the same way English muffins are made in England

There are lots of people who track movies, video games, music albums, etc. on Librarything. It is designed mostly for books but other media is supported, and no one will stop you from cataloging anything you want.

For awhile Librarything had a promotion where you got a free lifetime membership if you signed up via the app; I’m not sure if that’s still going on. Personally I prefer using the website. I paid my $20 in 2007 and I've never looked back.

You can do all of this with Librarything, which costs $20 for a lifetime (or free for less than 200 books). Including tracking who you loaned books to.

Not specific to this recipe, but 3 Ingredient Happy Hour is my favorite article of the week. I like to try to guess if I have all 3 ingredients based on the title before I open the recipe.

I get those calls too and I haven’t owned a car in almost a decade

I get scam phone calls about student loans almost every day. I must be on some list somewhere, which is odd because I don't even have any student loans.

I find that the most helpful thing is to do a full book inventory every few years. If I take every single book I own off the shelf it really makes me evaluate whether or not I still want to own it. I usually get rid of about 50 books every time I do this (out of ~1000)

Going to the bathroom is not professional either but people do it anyway because humans gotta human. Burping is not professional. Eating a sandwich is not professional. Scratching your head is not professional. There is nothing wrong with a person who happens to cry at work every once in awhile, and crying at work…

You can usually find a list somewhere by googling “Netflix (month) (region)“ such as “Netflix February Australia”

Eh... The point of grammar and spelling is to communicate clearly, so I am in favor of changes like that. If a language can’t change, mortua est.

They don’t own the mailbox, “The Powell” owns the mailbox. Whatever that is.

A woman I went to college with has a BS in biology and an MS in kinesiology and she’s married to a guy who has a masters in engineering. Their last name is “Powell” and they just proudly posted a picture of their new mailbox on Facebook and it says “The Powell’s”

Do you have the “Informed Delivery” service from USPS? If not, you should sign up for that. It sends you an email every day with a scanned pic of all the mail that should be delivered to you that day (or sometimes the next day). It doesn’t actually fix much but it can help you figure out where the problem is.

“Write a note and stick it in the outgoing” might not work very well depending on your mail carrier. I live in an apartment building and recently we had a temp mail carrier who put EVERY SINGLE APARTMENT’S MAIL IN THE WRONG BOX. I hand-delivered the mail I received to the proper recipients (it helps that I knew them…

That’s just Metro’s excuse for their fucked up escalators. Absolutely DO walk on the escalators if you want to.

Bad guys have sisters too.

This sucks, I love their shoes and there is a store across the street from me which is one of the very few physical stores I ever go to anymore.

I really enjoy “Stuff You Missed in History Class” from the How Stuff Works network. The hosts are great, they pick interesting topics, and I think the episodes are the perfect length for me. I’m working through their backlog as well as listening forward but it’s going to take me years because there are SO MANY…