Random: Ha! I just typed "Thirded!" In a chat as if everyone would know what I meant. I mean, maybe... but it is funny to assume the rest of the word gets Phoenix-isms. Heh.

Note to self: large Vietnamese coffee at 2pm is not a good life choice anymore if you also plan to sleep.

See also: Pepsi after 4pm.

I’d say “rookie mistake” except that that is very much an elder mistake. Ask me how I know.

Why do I find the caffeine thing almost as infuriating as the saggy neck I can't tighten?

I am totally going to do a blacksmithing class!

So cool! I would SO join this Ladies Night if not for that whole ... geography thing.

Feel better, Lisah. Hope the book is just what your brain needs.

Just dropping in to mention I got a haircut, and found a salon/stylist that I really like!

Congrats, Theo! As someone who has had to do this within the last couple of years, I know this is no small thing!

what about compared to last Friday? Wondering how many people are doing the boycott. Not that a 1 day boycott will do much (especially if we just go buy the stuff tomorrow) but whatever.

I was cheered by how very many times I saw the boycott encouraged/reminded. It will be very interesting to see what (if any) impact there is.

For me here in AZ the novel thing about "Which State Sucks More?" is that we don't always win every time anymore. Although we are making small upgrades, such as Kris Mayes our feisty AG, I'm sad that that happened because so many other places ...degraded so much.

Yeah, pretty grim, erika. It's a shame that instead of improving, the bar just keeps getting dragged down.

I am totally going to do a blacksmithing class!

That sounds like fun!

I'm trying to motivate myself to go to services tonight. There's a new independent Jewish group, organized by some people I know, who are hosting Friday night services, not affiliated with a synagogue. I know that I'll enjoy it and get a lot out of it, and that it'll be good to be social. Also, there's a prayer I'm supposed to say on the anniversary of my mom's death, and that was last week, but I was sick and couldn't go to services then. (This prayer can only be said in a group service, not while praying alone.) But I'm also exhausted, and my social anxiety is making me want to stay home.

Nice meara, Epic!

If you go, I hope you enjoy, Hil.

I'm going to a friend's daughter's dance show tonight - she and a friend choreographed and will perform - in DC and then to the after-party... somewhere downtown. [link]

I hope you are able to go , Hil

Yeah that’s a hell yes on the blacksmithing class for me dawg.

Did I tell you all about the glass-blowing bar by my cabin? It’s actually a super cool concept. You can do glass-working classes (you get a token for a free drink after the class) but you can also just go hang out and watch from the bar. Drives a ton more traffic in than just the studio alone for classes, retail and commissions.

I gather the permitting process was uh, extensive, but it’s my favorite bar to hang out at in that area by a mile.

Even if they don’t have pull-tabs. (Which like one person around here will get :-)

Hey Hil—one of my roommates from college asked this—do you know/can you recommend anyone?

have one (or possibly two) letters written to (or very possibly by) my great-grandmother, who left Bialystok in 1920. The language is either Hebrew or Yiddish, neither of which I would really understand even if I could transliterate the words.

Do I know anyone who can read and translate 100yo handwritten Hebrew script if I scan it to you?

Did I tell you all about the glass-blowing bar by my cabin? It’s actually a super cool concept. You can do glass-working classes (you get a token for a free drink after the class) but you can also just go hang out and watch from the bar. Drives a ton more traffic in than just the studio alone for classes, retail and commissions.

That sounds like so much fun. I saw a glass-blowing demonstration once, in Italy, and it was fascinating.

I think I'm not going to go to services tonight -- it feels like I'm getting a migraine, and I'm really just too tired.

Hey Hil—one of my roommates from college asked this—do you know/can you recommend anyone?

The language is almost certainly Yiddish, from that time and place. If it's just a few pages, they can post them in the Facebook group Tracing The Tribe -- there are a lot of people there who can read Yiddish and will translate short things like letters. (It's best not to post those on a Friday night or Saturday -- most of the Yiddish-speakers observe Shabbat, and things posted then will get buried in new posts by the time they're back online on Sunday.)

Oh, man, hanging out with drinks watching glassblowing sounds like such a good time!

Sorry about the migraine, Hil