That story reminds me of this!

When I was growing up in the 70s, mid Gen-X there were no babies time, my mom was a teacher in a district that was doing some serious shrinking. She was in an ESL program that kept getting housed wherever they had room, which was often a school about to be closed. The school buildings she once worked in were not left derelict, though, - one became a medical office building, one a senior living facility, and another an art museum.

Maps need the internet to map routes, but work fine as just a map like we used to have on paper when we mapped our own routes, with the added bonus that GPS does not require internet, so will also tell you where you are on the map (little blue dot; it moves with you in real time). I've used maps like this when out of the country to navigate with all data turned off, and no wifi either because out of range.

Apparently someone has for cats - glad my kitty stays indoors! https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/6/2233826/--H5N1-now-confirmed-in-11-US-farms-Cats-die-within-48-hours I'm still wearing my mask out in public because Covid, and another upside is that will block any other airborne virus as well (and literally everything is less contagious than covid...)

Thanks, that's pretty much what I thought (and that 10^x trick makes it easy to remember, thanks). I knew adding couldn't be right... that would just be linear again.

In a log scale, don't you multiply each time as you go up rather than add? So, if each point was 100 points stronger, 2 points up would be 100x100, or 10000x stronger. I don't think it's that high for each step, as that would get crazy strong pretty fast (and make 4.8 a true nothingburger). But I'm fairly sure I'm right about the multiplying, if we use 10 for each point just for ease of math, if 5 is 10x higher than 4, and 6 10x higher than 5, than then that's 10x10=100x higher to go from 4 to 6 points, 10x for step one, and 10x for step two. I have to say I have a really hard time wrapping my head around log scales. They are the opposite of intuitive...

My dd in Boston felt it, but dh and I (suburbs) didn't.

4.8 isn't big. 6.8 is big - perhaps not hu-freaking-mungous, but 6.8 can cause some very serious damage. It's a logarithmic scale, so 6.8 is what, 100x stronger than a 4.8? Or someone who understands log scales better than I fix that, lol. I get fuzzy on the details, but I know the numbers are very misleading if you're used to thinking linearly (as I am) so I try to remind myself of this. 4.8 I wouldn't worry much about. I don't think earthquakes that size usually cause much damage?

Poor girl took an Uber to the ER. My dd (her wife) was in the hospital recovering from spinal surgery for EDS-related tethered cord (all my kids and DIL have had this surgery as well, which has helped them all very much, but just then dd had aspirated into her lungs after the surgery and had to be on oxygen), but anyway DIL was alone in their apartment and an hour away from us, and decided an Uber was cheaper than an ambulance... I have wondered if stress can bring on anaphylaxis? I think it had happened at least once before that, but I don't think it's happened again since, or at least they haven't told me about it. She keeps epipens on her.

Yes, the Xolair shots were helpful, which is why DIL wanted to give them a go. The reaction isn't unheard of - as you know, folks with MCAS can react to just about anything, and sometimes one day and not another. They have everyone wait in the office for two hours after the shots for just this reason. Two epi shots needed, yikes. DIL has also experienced idiopathic anaphylaxis - which is anaphylaxis for no apparent reason, so there's that. The drs haven't ruled out trying the Xolair again, not sure how DIL feels. Ond of my other dds is currently trying to get approved for Xolair. Dr wants a cromolyn trial first.

I don't, but my kids all have this, as well as my DIL. They have all used Cromolyn, and have used or tried Xolair shots. All of these have helped to various extents. I'm not sure who's taking what at the moment; they are all well into adulthood. It also didn't present until after adolescence, along with EDS and dysautonomia, and the diagnoses and treatments all came as they were pretty much already launched, so I know some things, but never had to help manage it day to day. My DIL actually seems to have the worst of it. I went with her to the appointment for her to try her first Xolair shot - which she promptly had an anaphylactic reaction to. Fun times, to be allergic to the thing that's supposed to tamp down your overactive allergic responses...

The 5 college consortium is great. I used it the other way, was at UMass but took a bunch of classes at Amherst. The other 3 colleges are a bit farther flung, but Amherst and UMass are just down the street and easy to get back and forth between.

When I did an Amazon search, it came up with these four (only the first four results in this list are Spanish/Latin, the following results are other stuff). https://www.amazon.com/s?k=diccionario+latino-español&crid=A5KYLBAV2W4Y&sprefix=diccionario+latino+%2Caps%2C82&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_19 That's because you searched in English! "diccionaro latino español" gives you what you're looking for.

😈 😂 Come to the dark side!

The interface for Desktop/Mobile are quite different, and there are some bits just not accessible on your phone (like Stats, or sorting things by different criteria). You can toggle the view on your Phone to Desktop view and access them, but of course everything is teeny teeny tiny and pretty much unreadable. I always have GR open in a tab on my laptop browser. Half of what I use GR for is inaccessible or doesn't display well in Mobile view.

Do it on your Desk/Laptop. Get off your Phone. I've only ever bothered to figure it out on my actual Computer; if it's possible on your Phone, it's not intuitive. Go into any Shelf, and to the left you'll see the Shelf menu list, and at the top, Bookshelves (Edit). Click on the "Edit" You will then be sent to a list of all your Shelves, which looks like the following. Check "Exclusive" for the Abandoned/Gave Up/Quit Reading or whatever-you-want-to-call-it shelf. Then it will be automatically taken off of any other "Exclusive" shelf (such as "Currently Reading"). Books can only be on one Exclusive shelf at a time, but on one Exclusive shelf and as many non-Exclusive ones as you check. And Thank You; I've been wanting to rename one of my shelves for a while and couldn't figure out how to do it, and just noticed that this is where I can do that - so I just renamed it! Woot!

I saw a similar recipe online, and have been planning to try it - I love buckwheat. I also have a whole bunch of other gluten and some also grain free (many are lentil based) bread recipes from German sites. Germans make the best bread. These look really good. Hoping they'll also taste good!

My stand mixer is my absolute favorite piece of kitchen equipment. 🥰

That's so I don't have to sit behind your slow poky a** for the next 10 miles. *You're* special, Mr. Sunglasses. Have fun watching squirrels or whatever it is you were doing.

Hm, I'll look for this. I haven't seen a bean pasta that comes in long form. For the chickpea stuff, I always get spirals.

Barilla is my go-to chickpea pasta. Banza if they're out of Barilla.

Zoodles (spiralized zucchini) or spaghetti squash are my go to for really low carb; when I'm being less restrictive, garbanzo/chickpea pasta (dry in a box). I've tried both black bean and lentil pasta as well, and... just no. They are much better in their whole form! The chickpea pasta is really good, though.

Might this be the right place to plunk this? It had me 🤣

That is a great article - it's been posted in this thread before; I bookmarked it. I'm not sure why everyone keeps insisting that Covid will become 'just a cold' once its endemic, like that's what endemic means 🙄, and all diseases just level out to fairly harmless over time - it's like after a generation where we've had vaccines and antibiotics to make the nasty diseases of yore less deadly, we've forgotten that plenty of endemic diseases were passing around for millenia that never became 'just a cold' - smallpox, measles, TB, typhus, diphtheria, the list goes on and on. Many kids died as children or became 'sickly' with what was probably post-viral damage. We've been lucky till now that those didn't mutate so fast, and that immunity to them was longer lasting if you survived. And, all of them were less contagious than Covid! Covid is a bugger.

No, I think coffee originated in east Africa? . Chocolate/Cocoa plant is new world.