#but i'm enjoying this standalone book (a modest 24 hours/688 pages) so maybe?

[badgopher]

Friday

At the concert on Tuesday the person next to me turned to their friend and said "she's tiny" and I laughed because Charles said the exact same thing to me when I dragged him to a show a couple years ago.

I did eventually set a time and place to meet up with Charles and his kid for dinner and we spent a couple hours catching up and it was good.

Loving? the tip to cuss at Google to get it to omit its AI garbage. I mean, I hate that's what it takes; that's where we're at, but I'm not above swearing at a computer, so.

I'm the kind of nerd who's like: you ever think about how many times a day computers ask each other some version of what time is it? Like, really think about it. (It's a very, very big number. Even bigger if you throw in the number of times a computer asks itself what time it is.)

Remember when the big worry was that dude might start a nuclear war? Halcyon days.