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Cake day: March 18th, 2025

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  • My spouse and I were broke grad students with a baby on the way. We needed a car. Someone in our tiny town was selling a 1992 Accord for $1000 (this was in the early 2010s). We bought it and put in another $1000 to get it to run.

    The only problem? It was a stick shift. I didn’t know how to drive standard; at the time, my spouse didn’t drive at all. I tried to learn, but I was so nauseated from my pregnancy that I nearly puked every time the car lurched… which was often. I never did get the hang of it. Eventually we bought a newer automatic car and traded the Accord in for a whopping $250.

    These days we could weather a $2000 mistake without too many problems, but back then… yeah, that one hurt.





  • I had a second-hand bread machine that served me very well for several years, until one day when it started vibrating like crazy and threw itself off the counter mid-knead. The whole lid smashed into about seven pieces and the dough went all over the floor. We still refer to it as “the time the bread maker committed suicide.”

    Anyway, that’s how I ended up making all our bread by hand for the next four years or so.



  • People don’t need to engage politically on every single platform they frequent. I’ve blocked a long list of political keywords, because 95% of the political content I see here is about a country I’m not from. Americans can scream at each other to their hearts’ content without my being obligated to participate or even observe.










  • The Rest is History (history podcast with both mini-series… serieses… series… and one-off episodes)

    Clear Eyes Full Hearts (Friday Night Lights rewatch)

    The Line (Canadian politics – there are a number of podcasts with this or a similar name, so you’re looking for the one by Jen Gerson and Matt Gurney)

    Stories Podcast (short stories for children; my kids like this a lot for road trips)

    Old Books with Grace (old/very old book talk with a medievalist)