Good thing I decided to let my streaks go and catch up on archives over the weekend. It is too stressful to add puzzles to my day after driving so many hours. Last night and tonight I didn’t even bring my laptop in from the car.

Staying in Fairborn OH tonight after surviving Alabama last night. I changed my shirt in the car rolling down the highway for my politically aware cousins. Lovely butterfly with text of “ The only orange monarch I care about”. It was appreciated here while the Alabama cousins probably wouldn’t notice but we have an informal no politics agreement.

Tomorrow another long driving day to Otter Lake.

Happy travels, Laura!

So freaking hot outside.

Wow, Pope Leo is not someone you would fuck around with.

He's got a full tank of gas, its dark, and he's wearing sunglasses.

I haven't been Catholic for a long time, but it's giving me a lot of feelings

He's got a full tank of gas, its dark, and he's wearing sunglasses.

Hit it.

If you like sour-sweet things, and you can handle your tongue being destroyed by citric acid, I highly highly recommend Trader Joe's sour cherry cotton candy (it comes in a plastic tub). The cherry flavor is awesome and it is so sour it will make Sour Patch Kids cry.

(Tim's taste buds are still recovering after getting blasted with radiation, and he's really into sour flavors right now. Off the top of my head, in the kitchen we have: sour cherry cotton candy, sour Skittles, Trader Joe's sour Scandinavian swimmers gummy candy, sour jelly beans, and a lot of lemon drop candies.)

Tangentially related, perhaps, I finally picked up some True Lime (it was shelved with baking supplies, even with the little grocery store aisle map on my phone telling me where to look it was hard to find!) and can't remember what I wanted it for. Besides adding to Diet Coke. I'm pretty sure there was something else I wanted to try. Sprinkling on popcorn, is that a thing?

True Lime on popcorn is AWESOME, but use it sparingly or the citric acid will destroy your tongue.

(Keen-eyed readers will notice a pattern wherein I cannot stop eating Sour Stuff before it's too late. My greed destroys my tongue every time.)

Probably also good in guacamole if you don't have an actual lime, I would guess.

Sour cherry cotton candy is making my salivary glands go crazy just thinking about it. Yikes.

Also today was another 5/5 hard connections! I think that’s two days in a row?? (Yesterday I had 1 error, today 2, and really my last was a wild guess)