weekly roundup: am i calling this the ''weekly roundup'' now?
Hello, friends! Rob here.
MONDAY: The band did a thing yesterday. I don't think I can really talk about it yet, but it was a thing that involved being at a place at a time that I am not usually awake on Sundays. Predictably, I was tired and pressed for time in the morning, but I wanted to sneak in a quick bowl of cereal since I knew it was going to be a long day. I poured the cereal in the bowl, then opened the fridge to get the milk (people who pour their milk before adding cereal are war criminals), and realized to my abject horror that there was no milk. With the limited mental facility of my morning brain and little time to make a decision, I chose to improvise. Sure, we didn't have milk, but we had heavy whipping cream. Straight cream was obviously going to be too dense, but perhaps I could water it down to the proper consistency and create a sort of ersatz whole milk?
A quick check of the internet seemed to suggest that there was a way to convert cream into milk using a saucepan and maybe some butter or something, but I didn't have time for any of that, so I charged ahead with my idiot plan. I poured a bit of cream into a glass, then topped it up slowly with tap water, stirring and sipping as I went. It actually tasted pretty close to whole milk by the end of it. Not too bad, particularly when mixed in with cereal.
Actually, yes bad. It didn't take long to recognize this for the mistake that it was. About halfway through my jury-rigged breakfast, my lips began to feel greasy. I could feel my stomach quivering. The tremors and resulting aftershocks would nag me throughout what proved to be a long, busy day. All in all, I cannot recommend this particular kitchen hack to anybody.
Tuesday: You guys buy stuff on the internet, right? I know I sure do! Hey, here's a question:
Why is “Price High to Low” even an option? Who is out there looking for stuff like, “yeah, just gimme the most expensive version of this thing”? Sure, one might reasonably assume that sorting by price will be an easy way to get to the highest-quality items available, but there's no need for that when “Customer Rating” and “Best Selling” are right there. It's gotta be completionism, right? Like, obviously there's utility in being able to sort from low prices to high, and then some programmer was like, “well, if we have low-high, we have to have high-low as well,” and everyone just went with it, because it was Gary that suggested it, and we all know how Gary gets about stuff like this, and it's usually easier to just let him have his stupid way, even if it means that now we're going to have to stick around for another hour to program this thing that no one will ever use. Thanks a lot, Gary.
WEDNESDAY: Hey, are you registered to vote? If not, you should register to vote! It's really cool. Voting makes you rad as hell. Like one of those neon skateboard kids from the early '90s. There are a lot of great resources for registration and ballot information. I recommend HeadCount for a streamlined voter registration experience, the ACLU for more in-depth state-by-state information, and Ballotpedia if you need to research a specific candidate or ballot measure. It's still probably a little early for these, but your local publications can be a good resource for information tailored to your specific regional elections, and they can provide valuable insight into those ever-important down-ballot votes. Here in New Orleans, I tend to lean heavily on the Antigravity and their “Anti-Oppression/Anti-BS Voter Education” guides, but I encourage you to find something that speaks to your convictions, and obviously your locality as well- a New Orleanian voter guide won't do you much good if you live in Denver.
THURSDAY: I teased this a few weeks ago, but I'm doing a thing on Patreon where people can ask questions and I'll answer them. Here's a post explaining the premise in greater detail, but the gist of it is that our Patreon subscribers can ask anything, from band-related questions to food stuff to weird, off-the-wall hypotheticals, and if I think I can respond to your question in a way that's worth reading, I'll post my responses here on a future RoBlog (roBlog? ROBLOG? I'm still not sure which one is correct) for all to enjoy. I have no idea how frequent this will be or how long it will last or what shape it will take, because that sort of depends on the influx of questions, but I'm excited to find out!
Friday: Here's a jam!
