If someone could come up with a better name, they would totally deserve a prize. But that would take away from the crowdfund.

I'm starting to feel like I should get custom earplugs, because even using better non-custom ones, I'm still getting tinnitus from my super-loud band. I know they are $$$, but better than wrecking my hearing? But I have to get a referral from my PCP before seeing an audiologist, and that just feels like a step too far! Especially since I don't need a regular check-up, although I guess it's been a year, so I could get in for free, and just spring the referral request on her when I'm in the room?

Health care is annoying.

This fucking day, calloo, callay

Healthcare is annoying, it's true. Unrelated to the above. For me, at least.

Ah, Monday after a cruelly shortened by an hour weekend.

Yes, healthcare is very annoying.

In Laura News: I have new neighbors from Canada and so far they have been very nice neighbors, as in we say hey and wave when we see each other but otherwise pretty unaware they exist. Well, they have a fancy sound system in their outdoor pool area, and being new Florida residents from Canada they naturally spend a lot of time outside. I only hear the music when I am outside, or in my back bedroom and bath where I always leave the windows open (until it gets too hot). I think I have heard Opera, R&B, Rock, Country, and just now they are playing some island type music. It is just a delight. I never know what to expect. If it is ever too loud or too late I will enforce my personal rule that if you are sharing your music so loud I can hear, you clearly wanted me to come over and party with you. So far that hasn't been the case.

I don't necessarily mind losing an hour per se, I rarely know what time it is unless I have to, but going from driving to work in the dark in December to a gradually lightening sky early in the year to after the sun comes up only to be cruelly plunged back into darkness in March sucks dead goats.

So sitting on the dead goats bench with -t. I hated going to work and going home in the dark of non-DST. I'd plump for all-DST, alla time if I had a vote.

meara! How was the Samin Nosrat? Did she cook? Tell us (well, tell me, at least)! She's a hero of mine, ITYW. I mean I've never been a foodie, but the joy with which she approaches food and the people who grow it, and the people who prepare it...it has helped me to relax around that whole process. Which is a big thing in my world.

Timelies all!

Last night we got a babysitter and went to see Beth Patterson in concert. Fun, as always.

Do we have a group log-in for the Wall Street Journal?

Did everyone already know that Tataouine is a real place?? (If you spell it that way.) It's in Tunisia, and they filmed Star Wars there.

I'd plump for all-DST, alla time if I had a vote.

Florida did vote for it, but the feds haven't approved it yet. That would mean we are out of sync with the rest of the east coast half the year, but I'd prefer that the the time change foolishness.