Items drawn: • FIJI water bottle • Tamagotchi • Goosebumps and Fear Street series books • Colorful candy-like yoyos • Animorphs series books • Jansport backpacks • Jawbreakers the size of a fist and lasts for weeks Tiny giant things that are mostly fun to remember ~ I distinctly remember a girl saying, though I don’t remember who it was, “my dad went on a business trip to Hawaii and got these for me.” The FIJI water bottle was like a work of art. I think everyone else used Poland Spring, Dasani, Arrowhead. The FIJI water bottle was rectangular (!!!), smaller, and had a Hibiscus in the foreground and a misty waterfall in the background. It was 3-dimensional like a stage set. I never got one, although when I was getting my 2nd BA I would sometimes get a ‘special’ drink like a Vitamin water or a Naked protein smoothie or a Starbucks bottled Frappuccino in lieu of lunch. And then I stopped because those have too much sugar and are overpriced. Eventually, the culture changed and people now use reusable water bottles mostly. Everyone also had Jansport backpacks. There was pretty much no other backpack brand that I knew of or remember. The Jawbreaker candy also seemed like a specially designed candy. Colorful circles or rings that would appear inside, and rainbow flecks on the outside. Never got to try one, and also something I have no desire for now. Kids in 5th grade mostly read the Goosebumps books. The Fear Street series was slightly more scary maybe? In that, it featured older kids / teens? I think I read a few of them … don’t really remember. Animorphs was a really good series that I would want to reread now. It was scary that Tobias actually got stuck being a red-tailed hawk forever, although I think he could still communicate telepathically with his friends. Not too many kids read this series actually, I just remember one girl who often had the books on her desk, or would be reading it while the teacher was calling on her. Then it would be, “Andrea??? Earth to Andrea?” Spacing out was kind of her thing, and she never really got in trouble for it. In other book related memories, one time, the teacher was passing out copies of by Sid Fleischman. She flipped the pages of the book like a card deck and said with a look on her face, that she could read this book in 10 - 15 minutes. She was a woman in her … 50s? The class was impressed. I was thinking, I could read it in maybe 30 minutes. And also wondering, why would you want to read it so quick? Like, why is that a good thing? If you finish it that quick, you’re just going to be bored?

oh n/m I just saw the other comment

huh? are you talking to me or Karnage?

nope. no comment. not engaging. ohhhhhhh no.

I think this type of post (encouraging zapping sats on Nostr) is sort of addressing the huge U.S. wealth gap, and saying that by people, who are benefitting from their passive income investments, zapping ‘creators’ (ie, people with little to no investments) on Nostr, this will help to solve that problem? … if so …. that seems to be a very limited way. I think it will mainly distinguish those who are good at consistently garnering zaps.

who made the neon lights unicorn? 🦄

yes I know. I was pointing out the logical loophole that makes your comment seem true and paradoxical. and that’s why I wrote ‘lol’, cuz I realize you’re being a little bit funny.

haha interesting. What are the other cold weather months’ names in Finnish then?

lol no, cuz if a lot of people agree that it’s important to try to be an independent thinker, it’s not just static, the next thing to do then is for each person to try to do that. it’s more like encouragement.

who said that? Someone on nostr?

the addiction to drugs part is realllly problematic and complicating. Since it actually changes the brain. Based on reading Matthew Perry’s book. Although he was the opposite of homeless.

Episode 2 started with banter and chatter … but then, Rachel talked about her experience going on a road trip with some friends, and going to see a tarot card reader just for fun. *trigger warning: topic of family illness and death* 🙁 . . . . . The person right off the bat, flipped over the first card and told her, someone in your family will die in the next 6 months. (Rachel’s dad had recently been diagnosed with Cancer, and it turned out that he did die in 5 months.) So, the consensus between the 3 people on the podcast (Rachel, Irene, and Amy) was that the tarot person - any tarot person, should not say this kind of thing to people… and certainly not as the very first thing. I think I agree. At least start with a more general statement like, ‘you may experience a difficult loss this year’ and leave it at that? It’s ok to be blunt, but that’s just cruel. *sigh* Glad that she can talk about it now with some humor.

Today there was snow flurries, while also having a couple hours of bright sunshine. Now it’s cloudy with a gale warning. Loudly windy outside. So I finally figured out where to listen to Woo Woo, the Rachel Dratch podcast. It was just on Spotify. I had been googling it and the results did not make it clear where I could listen to it for free. A similar thing had happened when I first looked into Nostr. I googled it on my laptop, found a website that said a bunch of things about how awesome Nostr is. Could not figure out how to make an account and join. A couple months passed. I kind of forgot about it and thought maybe it’s just too new and not ready for most people / the public. Then, one day, decided to look up a how to video on Youtube … and while watching it, realized, oh maybe it’s an *app* Went to the app store, figured out how to download it. Up to episode 2 of Woo Woo. Episode 1 was intriguing. Episode 2 had a stunning personal experience that is quite sad.

yuck 🤢

haha that’s funny… though I neither like to watch or play, except for some in the ‘adventure’ genre I think it’s called? My sister got me into those.

lol! That’s cool.

is this referring to the Kentucky thing? That was really funny…

huh but this one has no reference to nostr

I found the original comments. 😝 I think it was because I muted the account on one protocol and not another one. was gonna say, that’s pretty unusual! I first read about them in Nomadland, the parts about Linda May.

hello…was going to respond to your comment but it disappeared….? I wanted to ask if the farm was actually on an earthship??