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The Lit Lounge with Mac Crane is an author interview event hosted by UNATION and featured in a Buzzin' on Books Instagram post. It focuses on discussions about queer literature, featuring Mac Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself and A Sharp Endless Need.
The conversation covers Crane's journey to queerness through basketball, winning the Lambda Literary Award, and the importance of queer books with a focus on A Sharp Endless Need.
That’s a mouthful…

I was just going for the sight gag of LIt Lounge🤣

Thanks for the explanation though!
 
Finally warned up here, but really windy today. One car needed an oil change, so it got that. But need to pick more for the next one. Usually keep enough for half a dozen changes.

This time change has me all messed up. Not a fan.

Found out a neighbor fell off his roof and died not too long ago. Snow shoveling can be dangerous...

Feeling lazy today. Time to put some cardio in, so I can say I wasn't lazy all day...

I should recoat my roof this year. For the first time ever, I reckon that I'll get a harness. I just don't bounce as well as I used to.
 
Finally warned up here, but really windy today. One car needed an oil change, so it got that. But need to pick more for the next one. Usually keep enough for half a dozen changes.

This time change has me all messed up. Not a fan.

Found out a neighbor fell off his roof and died not too long ago. Snow shoveling can be dangerous...

Feeling lazy today. Time to put some cardio in, so I can say I wasn't lazy all day...
So sorry for your loss. The amount of snow your area gets is mind-boggling.
Have a good cardio session
That’s a mouthful…
I was just going for the sight gag of LIt Lounge🤣
Thanks for the explanation though!
It was a good sight gag.
I'm a sucker when it comes to books. Just couldn't resist looking it up. :geek: 📚
I should recoat my roof this year. For the first time ever, I reckon that I'll get a harness. I just don't bounce as well as I used to.
Lifelines - not just for radio and tv
Accidents hurt, safety doesn't
 
But also - distilled water (sterile) because why put chlorine, impurities, and possible bacteria up your nose?

Do you boil it first? To sterilize? Bottled water can stil contain impurities you might not want to put inside your nose. 🤷‍♀️

I use the NeilMed Squeeze Bottle. Felt like I might flood my ears with a Netti Pot. Found a video on YouTube that was very helpful. Gotta get the angle right and then it's pretty easy. I couldn't find the one I watched but there's a gazillion of them on the site. Head tilt is the key IMHO
I didn't get the distilled water thing. But I did use distilled water in a humidifier I had.
I do not sterilize. I count on the saline packet to neutralize anything.
I tried that bottle and my opinion was the squeeze didn't last long enough. I like the pot, make the 'K' sound shape and contort your head inards to loosen things up. I feel lucky and hope I am not jinxing it, but the last few years I haven't needed it so much. Saline spray and the occasional dose of something, usually a spray.
I stocked up on sudafed with chlorpheniramine maleate (anti-histamine) when biden's drug team determined sudafed was useless. They had no way to keep it from meth dealers so they made J&J stop making it. I think you can still get 30mg tabs, but they do nothing for me. 10gsudafed 4mg antihistamine stuff is still like magic after all these years. GSK makes their version with 200mg of ibuprofen in it. Works but 9$ a box. Where wally world brand was 2$.
I have people in my family that some like zertec other claritin. Zert makes a change in the malaise but I can't say its better. Claritin makes me so dry I get spontaneous nose bleeds. Flonaze did that to me. Nasacort was useful when I was first introduced to it. But that was also when Astelin came out. That was the real fix. Somewhere along there is where I stopped taking pills too. The was the only explanation for heartburn. A few years later I worked for a big pharma and it wasn't a month or so I don't want to take any pills. I do. I take prev-acid so I can eat pretty much anything anytime and not get heartburn. A statin. Just 5mg to keep the numbers even. I decided with this warm snap I am cutting the wine down dramatically for a while. See if I get a better result when I do the physical this year. I keep telling myself I am going to get up and walk, but find something else needs doing before I get out of the house.
Mostly I feel the remedies are worse for ya than the malady. My problem is in applying basic common sense.
 
Growing up mom/dad would get 1/2 a cow from a local butcher. That was the majority of our red meat for the year.
One time the butcher had someone back out on 1/2 a pig and knew we had a big family. My dad splurged and everyone loved it! There was always more demand than supply. Even getting a friend to split a pig with us didn't get a spot on the list again.
Our butcher was Mr. Bell at the local independently owned IGA. Us yankees were damn yankees because we moved south and stayed.
Mr. Bell was impressed my Mom wanted a half or quarter and knew the names of the cuts she wanted it delivered in. My favorite and never seen these days was of the sirloin. I will call it long bone as I am not sure which bone that is. I think possibly the hip? Its a hind quarter cut. He'd cook it on the grill perfect every time. The fat lines were perfect to pull apart as we would all get a steak from it. I liked an outside piece so it had fat on it. I liked gnawing the bone. I liked most my Mom knew what to do with all of it. I think now beef doesn't taste like it used to.
Something we took to quickly in the south was the pig pickin'. 90-150 bucks got you a pig, head on ad split with the backbone left partially connected. We'd borrow this big oil tank that was cut in half and hinged with these bed spring looking grates in it. Sandwich the pig in there open and turn the gas heat to it a bit to sear. Then slow wood fire. I was alwasy too young to stay up all night with it. They'd make me go to bed. But the party the next day. Oh my. I loved getting in there first and securing my little piece of the back strap. I go back later and make a sandwich.
Where I am now I wouldn't know where to find a side of beef or a pig. All just good mouth watering memories.
 
I have chicken pot pie norwegian meatball casserole and shepherds pie in the works
Are you cooking for the week? I'm gonna live off my gravy and I got the big bag of nuclear range chicken legs swimming. I think my bean salad will make it for lunch. I was going to try and go a week without bread too. I saw a partially used brick of cream cheese when I was finding the cheeses today. Can ya hear the bagels calling?
 
SWMBO has long ditched the Neti in favor of those nasal sprays. Says it works just as good.

I kind of liked the whole ritual of doing the Neti pot. BTW…I used tap water for years…🙄

Don’t do as I do kids. Once the ameba saw what was in my brain…he couldn’t get out fast enough🤣
There was a brain in there ??🤪
 
Happy women’s day ladies!!

Busy day today.

Delivered a 1/2 cord of wood. Then split a full cord. Then went w our neighbors to a club and saw some hardcore and ska bands. Ran into a shit ton of people I hadn’t seen in ages.

Great day and nite had by all.

7 bands, $45. Good deal.
The Take are one of my faves.

the Pietasters are not only a great ska bands, but also a great soul
Band. Full horn section.

And Murphy’s Law are the prototypical hardcore band from NYC. Jimmy G always brings it.
 
Are you cooking for the week? I'm gonna live off my gravy and I got the big bag of nuclear range chicken legs swimming. I think my bean salad will make it for lunch. I was going to try and go a week without bread too. I saw a partially used brick of cream cheese when I was finding the cheeses today. Can ya hear the bagels calling?
I cooked for my mom amd dad... some will be eaten some will be frozen
 
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