hermiting with abandon

It's strange how two, otherwise innocent, words can produce such bowel knotting levels of terror by simple proximity to each other.

Take "land" and "slide" for example, or "knuckle" and "duster".

And now we can add another such combo

And he has also identified the humans as One of Us because he’s actually taken the time to attempt to learn by example instead of the naive cat strat of: stick paw in or stick face in.

Anytime somebody tells you cats can’t really bond with humans (they just want food!), produce this video as evidence. Trusting the example of another species is just a beautiful, wonderful phenomenon. This is not classic conditioning.

Hawaii has a goddess with a detachable vagina.

El Matador Beach Sunsete

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

evening falls

Anyway I was out with my friend in the next town over and we went to a McDonald's because she really wanted an ice tea and we go through the drive through. The man greets us out of the little speaker and asks for our order and she says "Hi! Could I get a large sweet ice tea please?"

Silence.

Longer silence.

And I knew in my heart what was happening.

So I leaned over and said, "It's on page two of drinks, under juice, then the third one down."

Another much shorter silence.

Then:

"What the - how the hell did... Uh. I mean. Thank you?"

what is the absolute worst coffee table tree*?

*as in, to your knowledge, what is the worst tree one could make a coffee table out of?

[pt: *as in, to your knowledge, what is the worst tree one could make a coffee table out of? ]

Oooh, I have opinions!!!

Firstly, I’d say the manchineel tree, as every part of it is toxic to the point that water runoff from the leaves will burn your skin and that seems like HELL to have to process into something useable

Second, I’d have to say cactus wood, simply because it has so many little holes in it that you’d have to either fill ‘em with something or resign yourself to owning the most inconvenient and dusty table in all of existence

And third I’d say the kaikōmako manawatāwhi, of which I know little of regarding the wood, but is so indescribably rare- as there is only record of one having been found in the wild since discovery- I’d have to reject it on moral grounds alone.