That’s what we had tonight! Well, I had sliced turkey because it needed eating and my partner had canned chicken. I rather like Mac and cheese with peas.

Not neurotypical, but yes, I do chew on them.

I ended up going with silicone straws in my household. Mine open up down the side so you can run your finger up them for easy cleaning.

The metal and hard plastic ones suck for chewing on.

Students smoking where they shouldn’t is a PITA to me, a librarian, because it can set off some fire alarms.

I do not appreciate needing to help a less mobile coworker down the stairs to evacuate the building. I don’t like spending in the rain while we wait for the fire department to declare the “all clear”.

We don’t use spy pucks to tattle on students, though: we know what alarm was triggered and we know who checked out that study room. Or we know who came out of the single seat bathroom.

Edit: and generally students have been contrite when they return the study room key after the building was evacuated. Very “I didn’t do it but I’ll let my friends who were studying with me know…” and we’ve not had repeat offenders. Tbh, they’re [young] adults so as long as no one is hurt and I don’t hear about it I’m cool with it.

I’m with you on this one.

Can confirm. I play Rimworld. (Though, tbh, my worst habit is accumulating way too many animals. Like, pages worth of named or trained dogs and wolves, plus quail.)

Sandwich maker! We had one growing up and it was awesome.

Leftover macaroni and cheese makes a mean grilled cheese sandwich filling, then you dip it in tomato soup.

How do you feel about one large pancake melded with two smaller pancakes, to make some sort of cartoonish mouse head shape?

Sidenote: shout-out the Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem, a Polish author.

Ooh, ooh! I’m in that law! I’m in the (to paraphrase) “competent and devoted to the goal but unempowered” group!

That’s just because you haven’t met my label maker. It does the letters one at a time, manually, embossed into a strip of plastic.

10, tops

The trick is to not use numbers. Use a tchotchke placed in a prominent place on your desk. My password changes frequently. The previous tchotchke was a goat pin, then a cactus figurine, then a binder clip. I just need to picture my desk and I know what the thing is.

And my desk is so cluttered it’s not clear what the special object is. (You know what they say: cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Empty desk…)

checks list Cool, the one I added (and documented) is still listed.

I use mine as my daily driver. It’s cute and sufficient. I still have a large smartphone at home for some things, but the Star is what I take into the world.