We’ll be in upstate NY, probably not far from y’all, all the kids (and my nephew’s boyfriend!) at my in-laws’ in the bucolic Schenectady ‘burbs. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Martha, and your progeny from the Huffs.

Dana can attest to this: I started muting the TV *every time* his face appeared in 2016 and still do to this day. I’ve heard maybe 10 minutes of him speaking in the last nine years, tops.

Same thinking here too, ha. A lot of social media has become perversely dedicated to preventing people promoting their work, which is totally contrary to the reasons so many in all areas of publishing want us on here doing this bullshit.

Meta algorithmically downranks links to outside sites so it’s a common thing on FB to post the blurb then paste the link in a follow-up comment. New on Threads, prob same thinking.

In relationships and even friendships, this can make for profound bonds, and I have and have had those. It can also just freaking creep people out. It’s the whole “too intense” thing so many people reading this might understand.

The biggest challenge? All these non-neurotypical things work in direct opposition to me also being an extrovert who genuinely loves getting to know everything about people I care for. I really do just like people, most of the time. I’m open-minded to a fault, sometimes.

I’ve known since I was 33 that a great deal of the chaos I faced in the first three decades of my life was entirely due to a challenge I didn’t even know I had. Hell, I accepted that I was a chronic depressive before I truly accepted that I’m also ADHD. According to my daughter, more likely AuDHD.

That’s a perfectly rational reason to do that, but I think it’s really the combination of vibe (Instacart shoppers often seem very serious and a bit harried) & pulling their shopping cart that I notice.

This isn’t about the gig economy, it’s about odd choices people make that jump out at me. I tend to obsess over such things. I guess if you pull the cart with one hand you can grab stuff with the other, but the time saved, seems to me, would be negligible.

Yeah, I was thinking it just sounds like sort of crack made in reference to something that happened offline, a joke that gets circulated among friends. Though with these guys I should probably write, "friends."