Saving alcohol for special occasions is probably a more sustainable path in the future. It's funny - I managed to not drink up until I met up with some old HS friends last week, and even then it was like "i'm gonna do 1..." and then the next day I said to my wife "I wasn't expecting to go 4 pitchers deep," and she was like "Well it was six, so..."

We'll see how it goes. I don't have any big "drinking" functions until February.

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Why I'm glad you asked! I made a whole infographic to talk about it.

My top 5 were:

1. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Bouey - a YA mystery thriller about a girl trying to crack a meth ring in her hometown. It's really good, and Netflix is making a miniseries out of it. I loved this book, but I struggle with telling people about the plot because it's, y'know, a thriller. I don't want to spoil it, but she really pays off all the subtle hints and threads well.
2. Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goldman - an oral history of the early aughts NYC rock scene - the yeah yeah yeahs, LCD soundsystem, interpol, the strokes, etc. This was my music and it was fun to go back and relive it. There's also a fantastic spotify playlist.
3. Canyon Dreams by Michael Powell - one season with a HS basketball team on the Navajo nation. Love a good sports "biography" especially the kind that focus on a single season or a unique team.
4. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - two amateur divers discovered an unknown U-Boat off the coast of Cape May. This book was also really, really good - although it made me decide never to go into water deeper than my head lol.
5. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe- A book about the Sackler dynasty and the opiod crisis. if there was any justice in the world, every last Sackler would be in jail for what they did.
6. Honorable Mentions: Eager: The Secret History of Beavers by Ben Goldfarb, Football for a Buck by Jeff Pearlman, Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

My least favorites were

1. Under the Black Flag by Chris Cordingly - not sure how you can make pirates boring, but he did it. 2.
2. Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller - The title caught my eye and I was hooked (pun intended), but the story kind of fizzles and the final third is really more about the author herself, which I was less interested.
3. Year Book by Seth Rogen - just wasn't that funny, and was pretty short.

>A light spring jacket

Happy April 25th to you, too!

Welp, don't like that at all. Stay safe.

1. Penn State won the Rose Bowl, so I'm filled with cheer and goodwill to all.
2. A week after Christmas, my house looks like a Toys-R-Us exploded and we are living amongst the debris. We did manage to purge a lot of old toys via donation and hand-me-downs.
3. New Year, Same old me: Dropped alcohol and caffeine for at least January. I HATE HOW MUCH BETTER I FEEL WHEN I DON'T DRINK, ugh.
4. Read 77 books in 2022! My goal was 52. If you like books and artificial pressure on yourself, check out /r/52book. Despite the name, people have all sorts of goals (12, 100, etc) and it's a really nice community. I love "What are you reading Sunday" This week I started the year with Liberation Day by George Saunders and it was bleak. Probably not the best book to start my 2023, so I'm following up with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, which is already better than his other travelogue, Roughin' It.
5. I am back on Duolingo, took off the month of december and let that streak die. 2 days strong, vamos!

I guess the ageofadzz is a bit higher than you thought!

Who shoots the blood delivery guy? Do they know that's not how they get the blood?

THANK YOU. I came in here to "Well Ackshually" haha.

Old English (Beowulf):

>Hƿæt! ƿē Gār-Dena in ġeār-dagum,
>
>þēod-cyninga, þrym ġefrūnon,
>
>hū ðā æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Middle English (Chaucer):

>Whan that April with his showres soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veine in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr

Modern English (Shakespeare):

>Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Yep, this is a reimagining of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.

Fortunately none of these 95 cases were actually read into the record per the article. So she’ll be removed and a hopefully decent judge will be reassigned to the cases

They’re traffic tickets. It would just be a fine.

Rock and Roll ain’t noise pollution

🎶Mayfair you’ve got just what I need🎶

The genuardis on Baltimore pike is a Giant now

What? There’s been giants around here for decades.

Acme is now Kroger too

I was handed down a pampered chef rock crock Dutch oven and I love that thing.

There’s also heirloom market which is their small foot print store

Street Road is my favorite street name in PA.

My favorite street name is Raccoon Ditch Rd in Delaware

Giant for weekly, Costco for monthly/bimonthly.

That's a lot of coats!

Where the heck is a Redners? I thought that was like a central PA thing.

Wawa is not on my list of places I'd shop for groceries, they always seemed so expensive.

Marty is a fucking Scab.

Did you know Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about him and John? It was called The Streets of Philadelphia

John Wannamaker, the first Philadelphian to show off his massive organ outside a subway stop