jerkin' it

i have never paid attention to the dates on bags of root vegetables. if they're still firm, unwrinkled, and unslimed, I'm eating them. one month? six months? doesn't matter. i have never suffered consequences for this behaviour

day 6: mostly i have just been cleaning up, slowly. because the previous three days did not feature much cleaning, on account of the mucus parade.

the sprog has taken this quite well. possibly because they are still tired and a little sick, so watching me clean is just entertaining enough.

days 3, 4, and 5: mucus. what had been a plausibly deniable 'scratchy throat' turned out to be an exhaustingly intense cold, or perhaps flu.

the sprog and i spent three days producing Chunks of Mucus and eating very soft food. it was extremely uneventful.

day 2, evening: knife hallway is not currently in effect.

day 2: today's events have primarily comprised the sprog's immune system making/expelling various mucuses. poor kid.

i am forbidden from copying the grumpy 'oogh' sounds sprog's been making (under pain of shouts of "STOP!"), which is unfortunate because they activate my echolalia REAL hard.

day 1, post-dinner: somewhat allaying my concerns on the near-absence of two-thirds of the macronutrient spectrum in their diet today (i.e., protein and fat), sprog has also conceded to take two (2) bites of a cold left-over chicken leg.

knife hallway returned while I was loading the dishwasher.

day 1, dinner:
sprog participated in food prep. selected ingredients, taste-tested, and chose how they were cooked. we made pasta, sauteed zuchinni and onion, and an eagerly-anticipated pan sauce.

result? sprog, after consideration, carefully picked through and ate *only* the pasta. with ketchup.

day 1, evening: laundry categorisation issues resolved. however, "Bing Bong Zoo" has now been played, on repeat, well over one hundred times and counting.

day 1: sprog has decided, for their first Idea of the Day, that all laundry is to be On The Floor, regardless of its state (clean, dirty, wet, etc). The idea persists, despite careful and patient explanation of why this Cannot Be.

last time we had a Knife Hallway (knives on the floor of the hallway for 'obstacle course' reasons), it only took me fourteen hours to get around to cleaning it up. i am a responsible and responsive parent, and the next few weeks will be very safe and normal.

Cool - I'll drop you a message (i'm on GMT+10 time so we might be a bit out of sync, timewise). :]

I write/blog a bit about daft LLM stuff and have a draft post in the works about chatbots being bad user interfaces for databases - would you be interested in commenting/being quoted on this iChatBio stuff?
(pinged you abt this b4 over on Tumblr, but notifs there can be easy to miss)