I don’t have a user tag for you either.

I only tag people as a reminder to myself not to engage with them. So congrats, this random Internet stranger is not intentionally avoiding you!

Twinsies!

Does your mom’s friend have family? I’d start there, followed by asking the hospital what resources they have for patient engagement that your mom could supplement.

Absent those, I would look to a local library app like Hoopla or Libby. Once installed and setup with an account, it should be relatively easy for a non-technical person to use.

Failing that, audiobook and music CDs from a local library, playing on a CD stereo. Your mom brings fresh CDs and returns the old as she visits.

I really hope the hospital has some resources though, maybe a patient advocate could offer advice specific to the hospital. If this is “rehab”, they should be taking care of the mind as well as the body.

Raised Catholic. Anything that makes me feel guilty is a desire.

Drove six hours for pizza, ate, drove six hours back. It was a group of college friends with one insisting their home pizza was the best and making the rest of us hungry.

I have a dent in my shin bone from a really big hit that didn’t quite manage to break it. It’s visible if you look close. I also feel rapid temperature/pressure changes there.

“My shin bones screamin’, I figure a storm’s coming”

Yep. I have Bluetooth headphones so I can wander the house freely. Tidying up, cooking, hobby projects here and there, picking out the dead leaves and buds on houseplants.

Some TV shows warrant full attention, but some I just listen to half of it. Some I rewatch as a comfort.

I’ve slowed down brewing beer too. I travel for work more and get to try more small breweries all over the place. But I’m still glad I have the home brewing behind me, I know way more about styles, ingredients, processes than I would otherwise.

I’ve been thinking about how to make the tasting more of a hobby. Like keeping a notebook with descriptions of beers I’ve tried and what made me pick up a particular brew. There are apps for logging beers but I’m not looking for that, it’s too gamified. I don’t want digital badges for drinking beer!

You could just be exceptionally sensitive to caffeine or something else in the drink. Personally, I would just not drink them if I were you. Who cares the underlying reason when you can just not do a thing you rarely do anyway.

I also love that it makes you psychically tired . Like you’re just too beat to do even a single palm reading or to shuffle a deck of tarot cards.

I have wilderness first aid certs and have come across people that took up my offer of aid, not CPR specifically.

I sometimes have a mask in my kit, but it’s among the first items to get left home if I’m watching pack weight. In the wilderness, hours from a helicopter evac, if a person isn’t surviving with the help of chest compressions then air isn’t going to make any difference anyway.

I was hired for a job some guy had been fired from several years earlier. There had been at least one other person in the position after him and before me. But for some reason he found out about me, decided I was a problem, and I had to get escorted to and from my car in the employee parking and the building each day for a couple of weeks until he lost interest.

And more pedestrian yet depressing, the stereotypical: I politely declined unwanted advances from a strange man in a bar, strange man promptly lost all emotional control and proved I made the right decision.

Do a web search for “mnemonic technique memory linking”. There’s a technique for just this sort of application.

The pay is more than I make in my current job starting on day 1. 100 days would be over 5 million dollars, enough to retire on. I can devote 8 hours per day for 3.5 months for retirement level money memorizing a list of 100 words.

Are you in the US?

If so, it’s the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Trump ofc tried to replace the commissioners who lead the Bureau. The courts stopped him, at least temporarily, TBH I’ve lost track of that one. And now he’s trying to use the Bureau to go after gender-affirming care. I assume it’s something transphobic like, since he believes transgenderism is made up, care to help a person transition would be “fraudulent”.

Fair, but I still think an email address they got a response from is of higher value for them to sell than an unmonitored junk email address as well.

I assume they’re fishing for data and active email accounts. If someone replies with a review, they know it’s an active, monitored email address and can sell it for a better price.

Block and delete.

Yes. We (the US) have a two-party system with both parties racing to who can kiss rich people’s’ assholes quicker and deeper. The parties aren’t opposites, they just differ on rimming techniques.

1998. If you do search it out, make sure to go for the Director’s Cut. The theatrical release has a voiceover in the first few minutes that spoils the whole movie.

One of the few movies where the Director’s Cut substantially changes things for the better.

Dark City. When the city transforms overnight. I wish there was more behind the scenes footage of how they pulled some of them off.

Just change your input to HDMI or whatever from the computer and ignore the Roku part.

Sit in the dark with ear plugs in and do bee breath for a few minutes.o