Very confusing to misunderstand that effect. On my opening day shwoing people outright cheered.

I spent so long hoping Hobbs was going to be okay!

So all of the archivists are laughing a bit now, because they know you can never save everything. All the government, corporate, and other archives come from a careful selection of what to save—I’ve heard somewhere around 5% of all the stuff only. Sometimes the selection is very direct, sometimes it results from…

Yes, no worry (well in that sense). The National Archives actually has the responsibility of archiving records from the government. Under the Presidential Records Act especially, all such erm, correspondence will be saved. I believe from both the official account and his personal account while in office. If you’re a…

One of the most frustrating things about shopping in various plus size brands is that it is assumed I am also short. I’m not really that tall, but just a few inches above average and everything is short on me. I’m embarrassed how many years I wore too short (even flared!) pants in any size before someone told me about…

Captions for every single minute too! I even learned a new word: “apposite.”

I’m a history buff anyway, especially for England...but usually older like Shakespeare.

An excellent service! Basic digitization can often be DYI, but there’s so many obsolete formats that require special care.

This is amazing. BRB going to re-read Return of the King, take notes.

According to this Slate article, Jell-O seems to have hung on in Utah because of larger families and lots of kids which aligned with the marketing targets over the last few decades. Probably peaked around the 2002 Olympics with the pin.

I have started getting irrationally angry when driving by the actual Young Living Farm for summer vacations. The lavender fields are pretty but what they stand for...

People should be able to identify exactly who they are, and officially that often means the birth certificate. However, the original purpose of a birth certificate was to record medical statistics, which points more toward the true definition of sex, instead of gender.

I still remember my shock being seated near the door of a big midnight showing for Fellowship of the Ring, so presumably real fans. It was nonstop traffic in and out the entire time.

And that’s the real reason we all know.

Look at your watch/phone? Going to live theater, there may not be a time posted to return, though there are often ushers to help you get back. I’m actually just barely old enough to remember real ushers in a movie theater <sigh>

Keep in mind that most live theater breaks about 2/3 of the way in, so keeping a 3-act structure is no problem at all. I attend multiple Shakespeare plays every year, because I truly love his work and other playwrights, but I am also thankful that intermission means we’re almost done. Same with musicals as the big…

I recently read The Year of Lear, an amazing book about everything happening during 1606 when Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony & Cleopatra. The part about the post-gunpowder plot punishments were quite vivid.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks gave our very white book club a great and hopefully sensitive discussion. We also loved I am Malala.

Likewise I finally read (via suggesting it for my book club) Rebecca. All this time I thought it was a ghost story. I think I did first read Jane Eyre for school, so now I need to add Wuthering Heights I suppose.

I like to combine Fresca with fruit juices. It cuts down the amount of juice/sugar in total and adds a little citrus zing. Favorite for some time is the berry juice from Juicy Juice (though sparingly as it started staining my teeth).