Like, they’re fine people but I barely trust them to put together an e-commerce experience; I’m not trusting them at all beyond that.

I have read the first two volumes already but would reread!

The example that popped into my mind was taking my kids to the NC Zoo, which is several miles of walking and a lot of it uphill. The alternative was not letting them walk, it was not going in the first place!

Boy, people are prepared to fight about the wildest things.

Anti-…stroller? I am attempting to remember back a few years and it seems like going out into the world *at all* required a stroller for years, especially with two.

Listening exclusively to phish in 1999-2000 looks less, with time, like an unfortunate detour and more like a guy who wanders into a fallout shelter right before a nuclear blast. Not a place you’d want to be, ordinarily, but look at the alternative.

“Everyone likes best the music from when they were 15-22”, but sometimes those years include 1999, and 2001, and 2000, and 1998, and even 1997, the year that britpop died. There was swing and ska! There was nu-metal! There was punk pop! It was a real bad time to be young.

I wish my dissertation topic was less relevant to the world since 2010.

My kids are on a quarterly schedule, and so I now just block off the second week of each quarter as “I will be sick”.

It’s giving “why doesn’t Cordelia lie to me like her sisters, I’m gonna destroy a kingdom about it.”

(I am reading Milton right now, which he tried and failed to get me—and everyone—to read in grad school.)