I did my first cables on the Northward Hat from Tin Can Knits. Free pattern, super simple, knits up fast, and you get to give someone a fancy hat!

I don’t know about ”most people in the workforce.” I’m in my mid-30s, and not only do I remember it once or twice from my childhood, I also encountered it once in 2013 (at a brewpub somewhere in New York). You’re right, though, that it becomes less of a thing with each passing year.

I’m upvoting to encourage you to give Fudge cheese.

I frogged the majority of a piece recently, and I felt better when I reminded myself that I like knitting. I don’t care a ton about knitted things. So I got to have all of that fun and learning, and now I get to do it again without even buying more yarn. (Mine was also on my only long circular, so now I can magic loop again. Double win.)

Also, it’s a beautiful piece, so go you. I actually dig the colors.

Except when you’re walking on a road, you should walk on the opposite side of vehicle traffic.

I take back my post, THIS is my hill to die on. Please note that it applies to any mixed use path where one type of traffic is markedly slower, so pedestrians on the road, obviously, but also walkers on bike paths.

I frequent a bakery that sells the Swedish treat called a semla. No one who works there speaks Swedish, so when I ask for ”two semlor” (pl.), they repeat it right back to me ”two semlas”. Sigh. They have a very finite number of foreign language menu items—they can learn the plurals. (Don’t get me wrong, if ”semlas” is the price of semlor I don’t have to make, I am willing to pay it, but boy does it annoy me.)

And that is exactly how I ended up never watching Game of Thrones.

These things fall into two categories—stuff that you buy because the quality is unquestionably higher than alternatives, and stuff that may or may not be a little bit better than alternatives but that you have strong, minimally-rational feelings about.

I find the second category more fun to talk about, so I offer up the fact that this is a C&H [sugar, US based] house. Once my wife brought home some other sugar, and I complained until the bag was gone.

I’m neither a writer nor a scientist, but there’s a copy of this on my bookshelf and I wish I could lend it to you: Deadly Doses: The Writer’s Guide to Poisons

There are so many things that are more important to me than what the actual job is. Working close to home (but not at home), predictable half-time hours, mostly working alone, working for a non-profit/government/individual, etc.

But all that aside for the sake of discussion, if I could operate a train that’d be awesome.

Honorable mention for bike mechanic and lab science grunt.

So, as has already been stated—soup/stew-y foods (I was thinking pozole specifically).

But I used to get these chocolate caramels from a bakery near my house, and if you let them sit for six months or so they dried out and turned into something so incredibly magical—tender, delicate, light as air outside with just a bit of soft middle. Man, I miss those.

Also citrus segments get a nice crisp bite if they sit around for an hour drying out after you peel them.

Finally, cheetos are best after spending an hour in the sun on a hot dashboard. (It doesn’t work to put them in the microwave, 10 year old me tried that.)