The joints thing makes me wonder about Lyme.

Update: My 22yo German niece is going to make Käsespätzle for me tomorrow!!

A lot of the reason we like each other I suspect!

Ooh my German family is unexpectedly coming for the weekend. Maybe I’ll see if my sister in law is willing to make spaetzle.

I would’ve tried it!

Like…with gelatin?

Ew, Tim

I don’t see it! You’ve got vcmcguire at gmail?

I’m prohibited from posting pictures of my girl. Your kid looks like a wonderful goofball.

That sounds really hard.

I’m with you but I’m not very patient and so I often cook them too fast and they end up much darker. Fortunately I like them that that way also.

This is so silly. Like there weren’t homebodies before.

I do a lot of this for my 19yo daughter. She has had opportunity to learn how to use email effectively (both parents are writers and academic-adjacent) but she hates writing of any kind and has resisted. Now that she’s off at school if an email is important enough she’ll call and ask for my help.

I would be like this except I like owing a house so it would probably be more like every 5 years. Fortunately my spouse figured it out quickly and dug in his heels. When we bought this house he only agreed on the condition we didn’t move again til we had an unavoidable reason. Now been here 14yrs.

This used to be my rule too but in my neighborhood easily 20% of the kids don’t have costumes. I’m talking 8yos, not teenagers. Now I just give it to everyone. Last year I gave some to a grandma who was walking around with her grandkids. Idgaf.

Is the no furnace thing a temporary situation?

Doesn’t it mean talking or chatting?

Unmasked tech, leaning over me to take my vitals:

“Your heart rate is really high. Are you feeling anxious?”