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Got some free chives

The friendly, old couple were working the plot diagonally across from mine today, so I had a nice chat with the guy about how nice the weather is today and the challenges of getting medical appointments. You know. Small talk. After a bit, he waved me over and said he'd been thinning out his chives and he was just going to toss them, but he asked if I wanted some. So now I have chives planted in the corner of one of my beds.

I also found I have some hyacinth bulbs growing under the cherry tree. I saw the first of them last week, but a couple more are blooming now, which is nice. It's tempting me to get some more bulbs to go under the fruit trees. I hadn't been planning on using the allotment for flowers, but I'm not going to plant vegetables under the fruit trees, so I could look for some bulbs that like shade (bluebells maybe?) and plant a few there.

In less nice news, someone dumped a load of bramble cuttings at the back of my plot, between my pear tree and the shed. I'm assuming it's the people from the plot immediately to the right of mine, just from the position of the pile, and the fact that they've been clearing out the mess at the back of theirs, but I wasn't 100% certain so I didn't just pick up the pile and dump it onto their freshly cleared area. I was extremely tempted to, but I'm taking the moral high ground. This once.

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Some songs don’t fit the vibe Pt. 3 💀

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Once again, I need to be worse at my job. There is a client who are a bit challenging to work with (not awful, but intense). And there's a particular person at the client who is very particular about how he wants things to go and what he expects out of people.

Today, this person made a request for my time on the project to be increased because he wants me to work more closely with him and his team.

It's fine. It's nothing like working with Problem Client or the client where the project team were so mean that they made our project manager cry. This person is a nice guy. He's just hard work to deal with. And now I'm going to have to deal with him for an extra half day a week for the next five months.

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History loves to repeat itself

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I have a new surgery date!

Five days before my birthday. Apparently, if things go to plan, I should be recovered enough to eat birthday cake by then.

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly 

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Feeling the urge to create a series of YouTube videos in the style of a flat earth conspiracy theorist but advocating for why the earth is actually bowl shaped.

One of the major challenges for flat earth theorists is explaining timezones and how one part of the earth can be in darkness while another part is in daylight, since if you shine a light on a flat structure, the whole side is lit up. But I could make an argument for a bowl-shaped earth having timezones because if the sun is at an angle, one inner side of the bowl would be in shadow while the other is lit up. I'm not saying it would be a convincing argument - but you'd have to take more than five seconds to debunk it.

I'm not going to do this, partly because of the effort it would involve, but also because I'd worry that a flat-earther would see it and start believing me.

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every time you make freezer food for dinner instead of buying takeout like you actually want you should earn two hundred dollars cash and a round of applause

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I thought my messages counter was broken for the last couple of weeks. Turns out, someone had messaged my sideblog and I hadn't spotted it because when you click on the messages button, it just shows you the messages sent to the main blog by default.

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can i please see a fat woman wearing it. yes, i know your sizes go all the way up to 5x. but can i please see a fat woman wearing it. yes, i heard you're woman-owned. can i please see a fat woman wearing it though. yes, i understand you donate 50% of proceeds to this charity. i still do not see a fat woman wearing it. can i please see a fat woman wearing it.

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I saw a couple of posts about all the Cybertrucks being recalled due to parts falling off because they were just glued on and thought it was a late reaction to the thing where the accelerator pedal came unstuck and could get wedged fully down. Nope, it's a different problem with parts that can just come detached that means they've all been recalled.

I am incredibly glad that these things are banned in this country because they seem like a safety hazard to anyone who is forced to be near one.

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i think every medieval timesey ren fair type attraction should have a booth of pedantry where if you wanna know if something happening is Authentic or you wanna ask questions about real medieval times or whatever you can stop by and there's just a historian sitting on a throne of books eager to show you all their research

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from the studio that brought you “i swear i already revised this chapter”, may i present: “is this scene actually dull or have i read it eleven billion times”

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Investing in 250 notes this.

Investing at 380 notes that.

Cowards.

Invest at double digit notes. Single digit even.

Put your notes into weird indie posts that would never get investment otherwise.

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I walked past a sandwich shop yesterday that had on its window a list of different dietary needs they could meet, including keto, gluten free, and things like that. On that list was "accidentally vegan". That just doesn't make sense.

They could have a vegan selection. That is perfectly reasonable.

And I'm sure there are people who've cut out different animal products for various reasons and then realised that they've basically become vegan by accident. Like, they didn't set out to become vegan, but they were lactose intolerant so they cut out milk and cheese, and they don't like the taste of chicken, and they decided to cut out processed meat for health reasons, and they can't afford fresh cuts of meat, etc. And then they look back over what they've been eating for the last month and realise that they've been eating a completely vegan diet.

But a place selling food can't deliberately cater to "accidentally vegan".