Tweet of the Day, I Straight-Up Respect The Con edition.

As I noted on Twitter, it’s good for people with more money than sense to give that money to artists. At worst the money will be used to indulge various personal vices, not I dunno, indirectly funding terrorism or something. …Hrm. I wonder if the dude charged for shipping?

Via @alexthechick.

Today was an unpleasant day.

About the best I can say about it is that at least the burning hot frying pan handle did not blister my hand. But that was the tenor of today. The absolute worst part? None of it was actually my fault. I know that sounds weird, but usually I can admit that I deserved at least a little of the grief I was getting . Not today! Today was totally unfair; and it wasn’t being subtle about it, either. Yay.

Baronial meeting tonight!

Some pleasant things were said about my time as Chronicler (I am stepping down in a few months). It was very gratifying. We also had to go over quite a bit with regard to the event I’m running, both before and during the meeting, so my schedule is off today. Such is life.

Emails. So many emails…

I’m running an event for my SCA barony, and every so often I have to do a bunch of emails, all at once. Tonight was one of those nights. Nothing’s a disaster yet, but doing this stuff for what’s effectively the first time can be a little nerve-wracking. I’m not exactly naturally organized, you see. Everything I know is from almost thirty years’ worth of being around somebody who is naturally organized. She’s so good at it, I’ve picked stuff up by nigh-literal osmosis.

But I’m sure everything will be fine.

In case it ever comes up: do not use AI to write legal briefs.

It will cause you to double lose your cases – which is to say, you’ll first lose on the merits, and then you’ll get fined by the court for being a natural born damned fool.

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How Monopoly rescued WWII POWs.

Via @alexthechick, this is a true story: Monopoly really did smuggle escape supplies in to POWs.

The most amazing part? They actually kept their mouths shut about this for sixty years. Even after the war ended! I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen a bunch of articles confirming that.

#commissionearned

PSA: Floss at least twice a day.

This isn’t an euphemism or anything like that, or code language for anything. This is me getting back from the dentist after a remarkably easy cleaning and a notification that I will not have to see a gum specialist right away after all. Why? Because of flossing. My gums are apparently regenerating now. Who would have thought it?

So. Floss.

That is all.