The hockey gods are pleased, shrift, I have taken on the burden of superstition for this series by wearing my (now) lucky jacket.

Yay for house!!!!

Man, so, like I'm seriously emotionally unstable! Working on this new song. It's about the concept of kintsugi where you repair broken ceramic pottery with gold, emphasizing the damage and honoring the object's passage through time instead of hiding or discarding it. So, kinda intense. Finished up the vocals a few minutes ago. Walked out of the studio thinking, man that went really well. I love how that came out. Headed into the bathroom..total sobbing meltdown. Uh...

I guess I effectively emoted?

So then I ate chocolate ice cream plus peanut butter on a spoon and cuddled the dog and now I feel better, but wow, that was fatiguing! And I checked the calendar (ok, I checked my menstrual tracking app, because that's how I roll) and yup, time for the good drugs to resume.

Yay, house! That's awesome news.

Liese, that sounds like an amazing song. I would love to hear it!

Congrats on the house!

Neat idea for a song, Liese.

So eating more or less like crap as long as your numbers are good is basically how I keep eating a 90% starch diet, so I wouldn't criticize anyone else for doing the same.

Am I wrong for thinking it's kind of weird that we have extremely strict photo use policies, including full photographer credit for even internal uses, but no writers are credited on our website?

That does sound like some effective emoting, Liese. I look forward to hearing the song, it sounds like very much my kind of thing.

Tim's dad's diet sounds pretty okay to me. Find a couple of things you like to eat and don't mind preparing and stick with that, why not? Also, pancakes do sound delicious right now. Been a while since I had pancakes. I did have blueberries in my salad yesterday, but it's not the same.

Congrats, PMM! I hope that feels every bit as good as I imagine it does. Which is pretty damn good.

Steph, would Tim's dad qualify for and/or be receptive to meals delivered through a seniors nutrition program such as they have with CASS [link] (Cincinnati Area Senior Services)?

Tim and his brother have talked about that before. He might be receptive to it, but I'm not sure. I'm going to check that link out, though -- thanks for including it!

Jesse, in my experience writing for websites is usually done internally on a work-for-hire basis and thus the company holds the copyright, whereas photography and art is usually licensed from another party who owns the copyright.

There are exceptions; for example when I did custom artwork for my company's website a decade ago there was no copyright notice since it was created specifically for the website.

These are both by full-time employees.

OMG, someone on my hometown Facebook group just asked if anyone remembered an ice cream place called something like "Hagaaz." Multiple people have commented that it was Hager's. Eastern Mass!