bandit king of lunch and string

ran out of my prescription painkillers. ibuprofen is not quite filling the gap. i might not get any sleep tonight. :/

 

those both sound incredibly relaxing, thanks guys.

 

i hope vinegar is good for your health, because i just drank like half a cup of salad dressing

 

sherlock holmes is a trickster myth. discuss.

 

in case anyone is envisioning me pouring myself a tall glass of ranch, btw, it was the rice vinegar and soy sauce from my cucumber salad, so honestly it was mostly cucumber water. like pickle juice, but fresh! mm! and i usually drink off what's left after i eat the cukes, but this time i let them sit for an hour or so before i ate them, so there was a surprising amount of the stuff. i realized halfway through what i'd gotten myself into, but you gotta see these things through.

 

it is secretly delicious! but also quite acidic, and maybe not the ideal choice for a bedtime snack.

 

tricksters are usually jokers, so it didn't occur to me until just now. but he's a character whose purpose is to upset the status quo, not by being weird or transgressive or sneaky, but by being more observant than everyone else.

it's written as solving mysteries. i'm sure doyle had no intention to write it as upsetting the status quo. but the cultural expectation is that evil must be defeated by heroics, by violence or purity or determination. for a character to come in and basically just point out the clues they left, so that the evildoer has in effect defeated themself, and anyone could've said so if only they'd been observant enough -- that's heyoka stuff. that's emperor's new clothes, but god tier.

 

is this... spring? do we actually get spring this year? cool and rainy? not going directly from freeze to bake? i'm kind of excited!

 

the NWS just blasted my phone with a flash flood warning. there are already ducks swimming in my back yard, folks, you're a little behind the curve there.

 

eh, they're underfunded and weather is a chaotic system, i forgive them. i'm just here enjoying the thunder and the ducks. :3

to be serious for a moment, the warning to stay away from flood-prone areas is worth delivering even if it's already puddle city. there's a difference between "it's raining so hard your yard is a lake but it'll drain away 10 minutes after the rain stops" and "this storm system has been parked over the cannon river valley for three hours already and it's not moving on anytime soon, so don't park your car in the riverside lot if you want it back."

 

in related news, my power keeps blinking out. fortunately i have a dead tree book to read.