I don’t know if they still sell it, but Coke syrup was a stomachache remedy when I was a kid.

I don’t know if they still sell it, but Coke syrup was a stomachache remedy when I was a kid.

It’s worse than that - I’d actually say “one ninety six”.

But in my head I always read the comm name as “one nine six”.

Can confirm this is how sighthounds happen

And if Nigel says he’s happy

The Dave Clark Five is what came to mind first for me

It’s supposed to make it credible that a 3 year old said this.

Dominos is disgusting. It’s basically the McDonald’s of pizza. Honestly, I avoid all pizza chains and get wood-fired pizza at a local wine bar. Ooh and I just bought a pizza stone, gonna learn to make them myself!

I am in the back of the station wagon, unfettered

Thursday, I don’t care about you

What the fuck.

Kinda sad I have eyes today

Grab your dick and double-click

By the time NYE rolls around, I’m tired of festivities, not just because my social battery gets deleted, but also because the food served at gatherings really sets off my IBS. This time of year I opt out of as much holiday stuff as I can without upsetting anyone, and I almost never do anything special for the new year.

When I was a kid there was a book about a vain horse named Nitter Pitter, and this horse is the exact image of Nitter Pitter that lives in my head. So RIP NitPit I guess.

I quit my PhD program in Physics because the misery wasn’t going to be worth the eventual paycheck, especially because I refused to work for contractors in the military-industrial complex. I ended up working for a while and got an MS in Applied Statistics, which is meh. Physics actually interested me. Statistics bored the shit out of me but it was useful for the field I ended up in. But now I’m retired, which is pretty satisfying!

True! But I guess young adult readers don’t tend to be as discerning, which is why I never expect the writing to be any good.

I pronounce spigot as “spicket” but that’s normal where I’m from.

My mom had a couple of weird ones that took me a while to unlearn:

Stipend = “stipp-ind”
Antibiotics = “antee-BEE-otics”

Yeah I’m from NJ and same, but more like wooder.

Also orange = oar-inge
Florida = floor-duh

And of course glottal stops everywhere:

kitten = kih’-in
Trenton = chre’-in

Grow-sree