SwearingRobin

I just buy notebooks to keep by my side and serve this purpose. This prevents me from having loose sheets everywhere that can get lost.

I keep the three on my desk, the most recent two filled ones and my current one, and it has happened to me to go search one of the old ones for some random info I know I scribbled in there and need later.

I don't know if this is normal, I can sometimes remember the side of the sheet I wrote something in, the approximate height, ink color and sometimes how far along the notebook it is. This helps with search, but even without memory like this I still think it's easier to search a notebook than a bunch of loose sheets

Is this from the Finch app? I should re-download that at some point

My mom had her driver's license at 18 as soon as she was able to. Then she went on to stop driving after having a license because she did not have access to a car to drive. Later in life she had a car to herself but had forgotten a lot of how to drive and is a worse driver today as a result. She had her drivers license already, and classes are expensive, so she relearned how to drive all on her own.

I learned form her and took my driver's exam later in life, when I felt like I was being held back by not having a car or driving. I had a car of my own a couple of months after my exam, and drove a lot late at night with my boyfiend just getting used to and confortable with it safely. I learned to drive more in those late nights after having my license than in classes. I did not feel super confident driving when I took my exam. It took months to get truly confortable, and thats OK.

Now you decide what lesson to take from this. It's fine if you don't drive ever, but if you intend to later I would advise you to practice more soon to really cement in driving, its habits and have it become second nature.

I hope this one is just the right amount of interesting for you. I particularly like that there are recurring characters and you can keep up with, and "cameo" style apearences and references if different episodes. Easy enough to ignore if you're not into that. My favorites are the baker and the cat Marmelade. Best of luck sleeping!

If you haven't tried it yet, I've listened to "nothing much happens" podcast for years and years now and it helps me fall asleep faster. If you don't like this one in specific, there's plenty of the same genre online for you to try. I prefer sleep specific content because the audio does not have any sudden changes or loud noises. Also screens on while sleeping decrease sleep quality, IIRC

Stardew valley, minecraft and sometimes mass effect 3 multiplayer. I'm still impressed I can regularly find matches in such an old game.

Just in case you're serious, taxidermy is not a good option if you want a faithful representation of how you look like. Taxidermy often results in not exactly the same look something had when they where living because replicating exactly the bones and cartilage to put the skin over is not easy.

This is OK for some random wild animal you don't care about representing the individual it once was, but for pets it usually results in unsatisfactory results, and for people it's just very uncanny because our brains are very good with human faces.

That's so interesting! I wonder if some immigrant took it from one country to the other, along with the story

Chorizo is the Spanish variant, our neighbors. Chorizo and chouriço are not quite the same, but similar. AFAIK they have different seasonings.

Out of curiosity, is the soup similar?

From Almeirim in Portugal, there's "sopa da pedra", translates to "soup of the rock". It has several kinds of meat, beans, potato, and it's usually eaten with bread (some say even a specific local bread type, but I'm not picky on that). It used to come with a stone in it traditionally, but for higiene reasons restaurants are not allowed to anymore. Some people at home still do it, I believe.

With it there is an old tale:

There was once a poor friar that was traveling. Once it came time to rest, he knocked on someone's door and asked for their hospitality in exchange for a soup. His hosts let him in and they see the friar pulling an old smooth stone from his pocket and putting it in a pot, along with water.

"Some seasoning would make this soup better... Do you happen to have any chouriço?" [best translation I've got is "meat", or maybe "sausage"] asks the friar. And so his hosts find him some chouriço that they throw in the pan.

"It's looking great! Now this soup would really improve if we could thicken it up a little. Do you happen to have some potatoes or beans leftover from yesterday?" And some potatoes and beans have indeed been leftover from yesterday. The friar adds it to the soup.

The friar asks for a few more spices, olive oil, and soon there is a delicious smell coming from the pot. What a nice soup!

They eat and once the soup is finished the friar fishes out the stone, washes it and puts it back in his pocket. Tomorrow he'll knock on someone else's door along the way ;)

That brings me back! When I was a kid I did mostly good in school, but I despised history, so my mom would take the manual and make small test like question and quizzes that I could then consult the manual for to answer (but not copy). Just the change of format made it a search information task instead of reading a huge dull bunch of text.

History was always my weakest subject, but the help my mom gave always kept me from having terrible grades