Nah, USB DeezNuts

My current “provider” is an NP. I like her, she’s personable and does the basic stuff well enough. I can understand having her do the basic annual physical type stuff for relatively young and healthy people.

But, for one of my recent visits, they scheduled me with a doctor instead (dunno why), and the experience was honestly almost night and day for the better. Granted, the way my health insurance works (ugh USA), the NP visits only ever cost me a flat amount, perhaps $45 for the copay. The doctor’s visit cost me the $45 copay, plus additional coinsurance down the line that I got billed a couple of months later because the clinic apparently charges two different rates depending on whether you see a doctor or not, I guess?

It came as a huge surprise for me, but wool blankets are surprisingly comfortable in hot weather.

I’m hot natured and I cannot get good sleep when it’s hot. Sometimes even a cotton sheet is just too much for me. But, somehow, a wool blanket is noticeably cooler feeling to me when I’m hot. I don’t understand it, yet I’m not the only one who has experienced it.

I also like the weight of a wool blanket. Something about that is quite calming. Obviously, they’re also great in the cold seasons, too.

And I’m guessing enough boomers DID subscribe for years to make it worth it, if my anecdotal experience is anything close to normal.

I told my neighbor’s dog she was a good girl so she went back home, picked a giant bouquet of daffodils, and then personally delivered them to me at work that afternoon.

And if you posted that story on certain social media sites, you’d get thousands of upvotes and fawning comments from people who seemingly believe your fake as shit story.

So I support this image, because it feels like a nice, polite degree of mockery on this trend. And at least it’s not as dangerous for the critters as sticking poisonous flowers into the mouth of the family pet for social media clout.

In my part of the world, there are at least a dozen+ culinary and/or medicinal mushrooms that are distinctive and easy to identify (even by casuals like me). These don’t really have any dangerous look-a-likes that also grow in the same area. I stick to those and those alone. Granted, even at 12 or so species that I can ID, that’s probably like a tiny fraction of the number of different species that exist in this area.