@nprofile1q... I play board games at the community game night that I have cohosted for the past 15 years. I've made a lot of friends through it and we have worked on a couple of community projects that tried to do a little good in the world.

I also help a close friend serve a monthly lunch at our local homeless shelter. I look forward to be recharged afterwards every month. We've been doing it for years and have made meaningful connections with the staff and guests.

@nprofile1q... I just a laptop for a personal project that would have been around $600 a year ago. It was $1000 now. I figured if I didn't jump at this price, it would been completely outside my price range in another six months.

@nprofile1q... have you looked at videos of Waymo "stacking"? It's hilarious. One person stands in front of the vehicle and then someone else goes around putting post-it notes or taping paper in front of their sensors. The car is effectively disabled at that point.

My wife used to use a similar technique using post-it notes to disable automatic flushing toilets in public bathrooms when our kids were little because they were scared by the random flushing when the sensors didn't properly notice them.

@nprofile1q... if you hadn't told me, I would have guessed that was a mermaid tail.

@nprofile1q... oh yeah. I bought the coil bound and perfect bound soft covers of both Cairn 1e and 2e. Soft cover for carrying around and learning. Coil bound for using at the table.

@nprofile1q... it is nice that the Print on Demand books are also very cheap.