Daily Octordle #806
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #806
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Score: 68
https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/806
Daily Rescue Octordle #806
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Force Mass Motion - Collision (1992)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HY9sgvWSkX0
WordAll #754 completed in 2m 01s (threw me a little because a word I thought was plural with an 's' was plural with 'es' and the 'y' adjective form isn't in the scrabble dictionary. A handy thing to know but threw me for 1m20s. Should have been an easy one)
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Wordle 1,025 4/6* (this one was difficult)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #809 (09.04.2024) 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del dรญa #824 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #821 4/6 (1/2 on 3)
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Framed #760 (nope. I watched Masterchef (BBC One) and The Cleaner. โกThe choice of song is from 1992, from Crowborough*, a small, scenic, but also quite boring town in part of England called East Sussex. There is a bronze statue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a surprising number of notable people live or have lived there. The song represents the relative explosion of rave music in the early 1990s, most of which has been forgotten, because most of it was forgettable, or so voluminous it's hard to find the interesting stuff. In the late eighties onwards there was an explosion of DIY music in the UK driven by relatives cheap equipment and production available through things like cheap DX synthesizers, the MIDI capabilities of the Atari ST (the Amiga played a smaller role) and cheap DAT recorders. Notably kicked off, in part, by Orbital, KLF, and the musical importation of things that were happening globally with electronic music. And it was happening everywhere in the UK all at once. In 1994 a law was passed the UK effectively banning unlicensed parties. "Under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, the definition of music played at a rave was given as: "music includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats". Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves." So it'sโก an example of a track, local to me (although it was happening everywhere**), driving mostly by ordinary-ish young people. In 2007 the iPhone came out and everything changed. Widespread use of the Internet driven by social media, made easy by smartphones is the societal equivalent of cheap electronic music equipment and globally***. The internet was important before the smartphone. The smartphone turned it up and with a far broader audience. All of 'those people' existed before****. I haven't got time to check this for errors or typos. London (Hackney Hardcore and XL)/Manchester (numerous - but A Guy Called Gerald)/Glasgow (numerous) were as interesting or more interesting than everywhere else but for reasons of time I've avoided that.)
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* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowborough
** Even Romford was briefly a cultural center:
*** 1993 https://youtu.be/tKAJhsCcabI
**** 1993 Jesus Jones, Zeros and Ones: https://youtu.be/70iHe2zNtII?feature=shared
La palabra del dรญa #823 5/6 (cinco culos en una canasta de culos)
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Liz Lawrence - Big Machine
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mYBIMZLUz8Y
WordAll #753 completed in 40s
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Wordle 1,024 4/6* (1/5 on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #808 (08.04.2024) 2/6 (100%)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #820 5/6 (~1/2 culs sur quatre, cinq culs sur cinq)
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Framed #759 (no. I didn't really watch that much on Sunday and I am bored. I woke at about 1am in a little pain and a bit dehydrated. On a more positive note I otherwise feel well and reasonably* content.)
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* reasonably does a lot of work here. But, basically, I ate well, don't feel at all anxious, and that's not bad and I'm grateful for that. There'll probably, inevitably even, be some figurative or literal pain in the bum to worry about, but I'll take this otherwise peaceful moment in a dark, warmish, room, staring at a bright phone, and feel contentedly lost for a bit. The entirely unprompted, spontaneous, sober, half an hour or so I've had of this is gold-dust.
The Duretti Column - Bordeaux โก
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=i0To_K2-W5s
WordAll #752 completed in 38s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 1,023 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #807 (07.04.2024) 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del dรญa #822 5/6 (culo de primavera)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #819 4/6
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Framed #758 (nope. I watched MasterChef and 2/3rds of 8 For Silver, on Netflix, which is also called The Cursed (2021). I kept falling asleep at the end of it, because it had been a long day and I drank โกa glass of wine. The cinematography and direction in The Curse is excellent. Not just good, but excellent. I'm so troped out when it comes to supernatural horror/drama and despite of that that the plot kept me, if not rivetted, at least watching. I know cinema plot arcs are structurally limited by duration and coherence but there's still a large number of ways to work within those constraints. I like Nicolas Roeg's direction, whom I bring up because I like many others, each of whom are significantly different directors. So there's a lot to work with within plot structure in terms of direction and writing despite a broad adherence to Aristotelian or Dan Harmon-ian plot structure. Still makes it bloody difficult to navigate what is good, when shows on Netflix, particularly, fall into repeating genres so much. More annoying than difficult because there will be some that are really good, or interesting, or undeserving of a low IMDB score, or press reviewers were worrying about looking cool and not being denounced, hiding among a cloud of shows of a similar genre. I suppose it's kind of an old person's rant. It kind of is, but I'd like to point out I'm not saying it's rubbish. Most stuff in most media is mediocre at any time. Watch old chart shows of your favourite era. There will be stunning highlights but mostly stuff that we've forgotten about. That's you, that is, Netflix. If it wasn't for occasionally really good stuff like 3 Body Problem I'd give it up. Is less, and accuracy, better? Or a scatter gun that occasionally hits the spot? I don't know the answer artistically, or financially, both have merits and downsides. Balls to this, I want breakfast. I will watch the remainder of the film later.)
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Dufus - Disassemblement Hymn # Exponential
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=N04ApydWohA
WordAll #751 completed in 43s
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Wordle 1,022 5/6* (glutes. 1/5 on 3.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #806 (06.04.2024) 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del dรญa #821 4/6 (mistake on 3)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #818 4/6
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Framed #757 (nope. I watched MasterChef, the current British one, on the BBC. Usual Saturday. I want to try for an hour extra's sleep which is, unfortunately, incompatible with too much thinking. Like USB C and Lightning cables. I don't want to go down the whole "yes, but adapters .." route because it's costing me precious minutes. Incompatible like thought and sleep. Which depends on the thoughts. Balls.)
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The two words I had in my head were wrong.
WordAll #750 completed in 1m 46s
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wordall.xyz
The Rolling Stones - Memo from Turner
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yCoCgB3eIU4
Wordle 1,021 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #805 (05.04.2024) 4/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del dรญa #820 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #817 4/6
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Framed #756 (nope. I watched The Long Good Friday, from 1980, the first time I've seen it, and it was interesting. I don't think Bob Hoskins was at his best as Harold Shand, the boss, because he didn't seem to have the gravity of a crime boss or other serious person. It's nothing to do with his height or physicality, that kind of seriousness or importance is often not linked to physical size - some people seem bigger or smaller than they actually are, because of who they are, or because of how they are, or because of the things that surround them. Maybe I'm being unfair. The Long Good Friday is a good film, though ultimately as nihilistic as Villain (1971) or Get Carter (1971) or Performance (1970), it's far more charming and set the standard for later 1980s and 1990s British gangster films. It's also a London I remember as a kid. If a person looks at a population graph in 1940 London has a population of over 8 million. By the mid 1980s that had declined to just over 6 million. I can remember just how quiet and boring Southwark, close to the center of London, was on a Sunday in the late 1980s as a kid and quite how neglected parts of London, the docks, warehouses, and former industry were. I had a babysitting grandparent living in the, now very different, but also the same, Union Street, SE1. Until the early 2000s when everything began to change, mostly for the better. There are tastes of that decline, and eventual regeneration, in the The Long Good Friday. I think many of the people who complain about London changing beyond all recognition were away from how boring and neglected it was. I thought 1980s Southwark was great but it was messy in places, still in decline, some alleys did stink of piss and it was deeply boring as a kid. It's on Prime Video. I'll do Wordall later. I like to concentrate and I'm hungry.)
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La palabra del dรญa #819 4/6
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The Royal We - All The Rage
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHFjvpvnmM
WordAll #749 completed in 33s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 1,020 2/6* (doesn't count, luck)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #804 (04.04.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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La Palabra Del Dรญa keeps sensible hours.
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #816 4/6
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Framed #755 (nope. I'm awake at rought 3.30am feeling as if my shoulders, neck, ankles and wrists have been stung by a bee. I'm coping fine but it is unpleasant and definitely interferes with sleep. It's like been woken by a physical embodiment of an anxiety dream. Yesterday I watched a British, specifically Scottish film, called Complicity, from 2000 based on the 1993 Iain Banks novel of the same name. I've read the book too, albeit just long enough ago I didn't remember I had until one third of the way into the film. It had, has, a lot of good actors doing a good job with what is an affectedly 1990s book and script. It's the most 1990s film make in 2000 there is. There's a certain kind of forced edginess through the use of recreational drugs, booze and kinky sex, which are, in themselves, edgy, but somehow the 1990s aesthetic reduces to them to things done to piss off the parents and squares, superficial signifiers of hipness, rather than complicated or compelling realities. Maybe that was the point. A nihilism. It was a good film, because of the people involved, but so very much of its time I'm not sure it holds up. There are also numerous examples of explanatory dialogue pushing the plot forward, which wouldn't be out of place in a book or radio play, but in a largely visual medium seemed like cheating a little. Scotland, on the east coast, at the crappy time of the year, on film is magical. I've only been there once as a teenager and was struck by how it was a place that was so simultaneously beautiful and utterly boring that people, in that case teenagers, have to create their own cultural scene because mutual boredom gives birth to, fleeting, scenes. I wonder how that's holding up post internet where the world potentially meets the world*. It's probably better or the same. Complicity is on Prime Video and I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a film, or the book, but it is interesting and of a time.)
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* Which is really the kind of 90s internet utopianism since abutted by geography, parochialism, societal realities, politics, and reactionaries.
Bumbags. If you are good or reasonable at these things should be easy to beat this score. Just pay attention to which letter carries a bonus. I missed two higher scoring words.
Blossom Puzzle, April 3
Letters: E M N R O S U
My score: 372 points
My longest word: 12 letters
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Chloรฉ Thรฉvenin - Twice a Womxn
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=duLYVH2kCSM
WordAll #748 completed in 39s
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Wordle 1,019 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #803 (03.04.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del dรญa #818 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #815 3/6
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Framed #754 (nope. I didn't watch that much, really. I think I am mostly better, I'm certainly hungry anyway, not that I especially lost my appetite while ill. I am in moderate physical pain.)
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Hospitals are not hiding Covid cases. There really isn't much Covid around right now. Be wary of those who say otherwise.
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/hospitals-are-not-hiding-covid-cases
Salem - Asia
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LpVoEL_U5_Y
WordAll #747 completed in 41s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 1,018 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #802 (02.04.2024) 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del dรญa #817 X/6 (broke my 80 streak and it was the one I dismissed.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #814 4/6
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Framed #753 (nope. I watched Amulet which was a good horror film and one of the rare few where the IMDB rating, a consensus of IMDB user ratings, is wrong. It's lower than it deserves to be. Excluding those where people have deliberately paid for reviews or subverted the reviews process in some other way so it has a very high score. I wouldn't recommend Amulet because I don't think it's a particularly nice film, a little like I wouldn't recommend Possession, 1981, but specifically as a horror film it's better than average. Most of the weekend and Monday I have been getting over a nasty, but mercifully brief, cold and cough. I just have the remnants of it now in the form of been woken at 4:30 AM with sinuses that are painful to the touch and moderate back and rib pain from been stuck in bed coughing up dead cells. I could do a kebab right now which is one of the four Fs, so I'm clearly much improved.)
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Not awful, not great.
Daily Octordle #797
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #798
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence
Daily Rescue Octordle #798
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Johnossi - For A Little While
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=poyorlGuj5E
WordAll #746 completed in 1m 05s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 1,017 5/6* (didn't employ the best guesses)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #801 (01.04.2024) 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del dรญa #816 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #813 3/6
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Framed #752 (no. I watched The Northman a very violent, mostly historically accurate, 'Viking' revenge drama. It was good but appropriately sprinkled with pre Christian Norse mythology, which, in some ways, explains quite how dangerous the Northmen were, because, if a person truly believed those things, they were dangerous by default. It's kind of the Northern European/Scandinavian rock and roll years before they got engineering and accounting degrees, got into wine, Calvados, French and Mediterranean chicks, became Normans and settled down, or formed empires leading to things like The Great Northern War. Family in Sweden tell me the runestones are mostly stuff like X died valiantly at sea - the posher stone memorial equivalent of death notices in a local newspaper. There is a Norwegian comedy show in English called Norsemen, on Netflix, which has a similarly historically accurate take of pre Christian Norway except not bone crunchingly violent and very funny. I suspect it's a Norwegian reaction to TV and cinema 'Viking' dramas, and it's well worth a watch.)
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What is the three-body problem Anyway?
https://kityates.substack.com/p/what-is-the-three-body-problem-anyway
The Cooper Temple Clause - Who Needs Enemies?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAWY39I3DE
WordAll #745 completed in 32s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 1,016 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #800 (31.03.2024) 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del dรญa #815 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #812 5/6 (pentacul)
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Framed #751 (yes, I have seen it, I don't know why it took me so long to guess it. I didn't really watch anything yesterday. I've still got a stinker of a cold but the cough has improved somewhat. I pretty much got home, cooked, ate and slept for 10 hours which seems to have done me some good because I feel snotty but nowhere near as ill. I am grateful to have being able to do that. I didn't even have a glass of wine with my meal. I read some more about the XZ affair. Which on the face of it seems technical and boring but has the makings of a spy thriller. XZ is compression algorithm, primarily used in open source computer systems. Open source systems are used everywhere. XZ was heroically maintained and updated by one person until a couple of years ago. Then someone with the handle JiaT75 helped maintain the underlying source code. Which isn't, by itself, unusual people often volunteer their skills for fun or indirectly for profit (at a minimum having successful contributions looks good on a CV or resume). JiaT75 was anonymous, which isn't that unusual or by itself suspicious. There are legitimate reasons for privacy. But they inserted backdoors, in a reasonably sophisticated, slow and methodical, way, into the software; it wasn't a backdoor into XZ itself - it was a backdoor in something that very indirectly uses XZ. It was a deliberately convoluted and tangential way of gaining access to computers in a covert way. Done in reasonably methodical and slow way over a two year period. There are very smart individuals and groups out there capable of such things. There are also state actors. Governments trying to gain access to computers for intelligence gathering purposes. JiaT75 sounds like a Chinese name but then that's just a username and it could be misdirection. It''s quite a big deal, and no doubt a lot of people, governments included, are trying to work out how they are affected or if they were affected. There's not much evidence the backdoors were used but there wasn't much evidence they existed until a week ago*.)
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* A somewhat technical rundown:
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27
Jem - They
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIZqLDDHBA
WordAll #744 completed in 1m 15s
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Wordle 1,015 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #799 (30.03.2024) 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del dรญa #814 5/6 (multitud de culos)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #811 3/6
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Framed #750 (nope. I didn't watch much yesterday apart from an episode of Bargain Hunt. I've picked up an annoying cold. It's annoying because I'm not so ill I can't do stuff and I feel I have to do stuff. I think it is probably not COVID. It doesn't feel like COVID. Last two times I had COVID I didn't have a cough and felt weird. I don't feel weird and it's almost an old fashioned nostalgic cough and blocked nose. I also haven't got a fever. Which I didn't have with COVID, either but I did have with the previous lurgies picked up while babysitting a kid whom had the lurgies. I suppose it's probably polite to tell people I've got a bit of a light cold before seeing them but in all likelihood they're the people I picked it up from. I will warn them because it's the polite thing to do. I'm in a hurry. My breakfast for the last week has primarily been riffs on wholemeal sourdough toast. It's not the best loaf. The timings were messed up by life. I do like cough sweets and if I can find some that haven't been mucked up by artificial sweeteners I may see if I can get some. Not because I think they'll help beyond placebo but because placebo is real. Or there are mint humbugs.)
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