I keep full sticks of butter in the fridge, so I can cut off what I need for a recipe. Once some has been cut off, I put the remainder of the stick into a butter dish that snaps closed (a remnant of cats who liked to knock my butter dish off the counter and lick it directly) and kept in the cupboard.

For me, it’s when people play loud music in their cars to the point where I can feel thumping bass in my shoes but not actually hear any music. It fills me with such rage. I start to fantasize about having the magical ability to just snap people out of existence.

I get way too excited now whenever I hear a bird sound I can’t immediately recognize. There was something faint but strange one day walking through a housing development. Too far away to actually see the birds making the noise. I let the app listen for a while, and that's how I got the white-throated swift on my list.…

When fries were cheap, I’d say sure, add some fries on there, why not? I probably wouldn’t finish all of them because fries are really bad for my health, but throwing out the worse half of the fries isn’t that big a deal when they’re only like a dollar.

Good luck overleveling anything against Brock. One of the reasons I loved the original R/B was that it had an unspoken “hard mode” of picking Charmander when you start. There aren’t enough trainers around to give you the easy EXP you need to level something high enough, so you’re grinding for ages against wild pokemon.

I used to have one. I thought of it as a family pet more than a cleaning device. I ended up having to do way more work to clean up the floor so that it could clean, like cleaning up your house before the maid comes over. Even when I made sure the floor was reasonably clean, it always somehow managed to get stuck under…

People measure salad ingredients? My lunch most days is a bowl of whatever random lettuce, chard, spinach, and kale I’ve got on hand from my last shopping trip and the garden. Usually mostly lettuce with the others thrown in for variety, but if I’ve got a whole bag of spinach I need to use, I make a spinach salad. If…

My primary concern isn’t my current ability to play the game without internet, but my ability to play the game at all if I dig the disc out from a box under my couch 20 years from now, as I definitely can from any games I’ve still got from the 90s.

Stitch Fix was a huge failure for me. I’ve got a very specific style, and I mainly was hoping a “personal stylist” type thing would help me actually be able to FIND more pieces that would be a part of that style, so I don’t have to spend hours digging through hundreds of ugly dresses online or even worse, physically…

Especially if it’s sliced bread that I’m going to be toasting anyway, I can’t really tell a difference if it’s frozen.

I’ve been told I was allergic to penicillin ever since I was a child, though the story went back and forth between “because your dad is allergic to it” and “because you had to take it so much as a baby due to all the ear infections.”

This is why I will never understand ice cream cake. The cake has to taste gross for the ice cream to stay frozen. Why not just have a slice of room temperature cake and put a scoop of ice cream next to it?

I’ve got a folding stool that fits in a backpack, but nowadays I mostly use it to sit on while pulling weeds. Kneeling was never very good for my knees even with a pad.

California is very strict about bringing produce across state lines, in order to protect the agriculture industry from pests and diseases, *especially* citrus. You’re not even really allowed to transport citrus within California. Those oranges picked from a friend’s backyard could have bugs or spores on them, and so…

Be careful with calcium supplements. I was taking them for a while and ended up anemic, because it turns out calcium inhibits iron absorption! You’re losing a lot of iron along with that blood, so it can really become a problem.

We’re blessed with a mild climate here in California, so we don’t really get frost at all (I’ve had cabbages in the backyard since February) but our summers near the ocean are too cold to grow really hot-weather crops. I’ve got an Early Girl tomato out in the yard even though I know it’s probably too early even for…

I have to watch pretty much every movie at home with my thumb on the volume button. Turn it way way up any time people are talking, turn it almost off any time any kind of action or music is happening.

I threw some asparagus seeds in the ground in the fall in my very mild climate and kept them wet all winter, now I’ve got a bunch of little fern babies popping up in the space. I look forward to having my own asparagus in a few years.

I had a terrible time with squirrels *and* cats digging up my raised beds, so whenever I had delicate seedlings in there, I’d put up a low fence I built out of PVC pipes, connectors, and bird netting. Only a few feet tall, with the top open so I can reach in to pull weeds. Not too expensive, though you’ll need a PVC…

People open the window to cool the car when they’re driving at highway speeds?? How do they stand the noise and freeway stench? I’d rather be sweating.