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Cilantro is usually good for a second fall sowing for fall and winter. In some climates, it can go quite late with a little protection. What does your oregano do over the winter?

If you can get paxlovid within a certain number of days of the onset of symptoms, it's a good deal. Less effective than it used to be due to disease mutation, but still good at keeping severity down, and maybe good at reducing odds of long COVID.

Rest. Take that half hour and close your eyes. Andrew Huberman is a big advocate of non-sleep deep rest, which is the butch way of saying yoga nidra, which is the yoga way of saying body scan meditation. Or just listen to audiobooks. Or a short nap. I have various rules for "take a rest break now", and one of them is the feeling that I can't do anything or I'm spinning my wheels. The only rest rule is my eyes have to be closed. If I can handle self-improvement, yoga nidra is better for me. But anything that gets the eyes closed.

That is awesome. This is the start of all the best stories. I'd have gone for "Make Asia Genghis's Again". I'd say so. I was introduced to them five years ago?

Argh, curly hair care conversation, and me without the brain for it. What do you hold your loose little buns with?

Echo this. Lengthy or significant dehydration is hard to resolve without some electrolyte supplementation. Salt will do the trick if that's what's handy. Eat salt, salt your drinks, whatever works.

Training Performance Report Officer: Sara Kingdom Date: 26/09/23 Department: Special Assessment Unit Formae Daily Crura impello Bonus Boxing practice Yoga Visiting genii locorum Even Days Tabula scindere Orantes scindere Dorsum scindere recta, crux, obliquum & ramosa Reminders Electrolytes Crura impello. Score: 1 Magical Ritual Cast one circle a day Ground energy once a day Score: Recovery 2 hours training started before noon. 6-8 hours sleep. In bed by midnight Bonus: 6pm schedule check-in and support tasks Sleep. Plus extra sleep. Missed training deadline. Strange how that deadline gets missed most often when you need more rest. Score: 1 Bonus: 1 Silentium Mentis Mindfulness Metta Body Scan Score: Home Front Reintegration I'm afraid I'm out of touch with the modern resources on shell shock and nervous exhaustion and the like. Do one thing a day related to 'mental health' education or improvement. Score: Record Keeping Make a daily plan Journal practice Make a weekly and monthly plan Score: Space reserved for office use Date rec'd: Initialed by: Form ID: Zulu Foxtrot 18.C.68-v2-Jun-1977 (ZF.18.C.68/1977.06) (Supercedes form 64B from Nov 1932) For internal use only. Sensitive records. Not to leave the Folly.

I've only read the first one. My library has a paucity of them. I'm trying to get the second, because it seems to have an actual plot thing that future books don't explain. (But not a major one that you couldn't just handwave if you felt like it. Without it, there's no mention of what the heck happens to Varvara Sidorovna. You can just take future mentions of her at face value, but I personally wanna fill that plot hole.) The others mostly just seem to come up as "one time, I had this case about a ____" asides, which, like, could just as easily be filler. The writing was surprisingly good. It maybe shouldn't surprise me, Aaronovitch and Cartmel were both TV guys originally, so scripts are not beyond them. It's not the prose of the books, but it works. The art, oddly, did not work for me, but I think they change that up in every book anyway.

I am having a bit of a day, and would like gifs and booze and Rivers of London chat and to spend all day in bed. Please contribute what you can. (That's how wizards do it, right? Ice cream and TV in bed?) ((You should see the look I'm getting for suggesting that. Apparently that's not how wizards do it.)

They are indeed the same book! You apparently have an American edition, rather than a British edition. This is excellent news. The definitely not magically inappropriate grape shears may be within my reach.

I have my final Rivers of London victim for the haunted biscuit tin on the cusp of reading, so I need to prepare my tin enchantment. The common thread between tomten and brownies and other Northern European housework elves is that they need to be paid in food, but despise gifts or thanks. So, basically, they want a job. I will be putting a magical "help wanted" ad in my biscuit tin with some basic job description and a salary range (mostly porridge, sometimes shared cookies), and it should be haunted in no time. After that, I have @juliebarkley, Snarky, and Tank on the someday list, which coincidentally is the number of readers I need for the next prize: Victorian grape shears that were definitely not used for an inappropriate magical purpose.

It takes time to get past the "a single sprig of fresh basil costs $3" rationing stage, and into the "not only is it free, but it'll just go to waste if I don't eat it, and also I have ten thousand sprigs" stage. Then it becomes pretty easy to treat to as just another vegetable. I probably had the equivalent of $8 of basil in my eggs this morning. About as much oregano in the chili last night and twice as much basil and oregano the night before that. (which, to be fair, were both for many people, not just me). I've been eating these eggs once or twice a day for a week, and it's only now reaching the point, after twelve cups of basil in one week, where I'm looking at the basil plants and thinking I might need to cut back for a few days to let them catch up. Not stop, just... cut back slightly. Maybe $4 of basil for breakfast. Eating them in that quantity is easier if you put them in something cooked. At least wilted. They're pretty pungent when fresh picked, heat mellows them a bit. I was worried I might get complaints from the other people eating my cooking when I stepped up my herb game so radically, but so far, it's all been a hit.

Do not doubt the trolling experience of Thomas Nightingale. He's been doing it longer than most people. Over a century of trolling. Training Performance Report Officer: Sara Kingdom Date: 22/09/23 Department: Special Assessment Unit Formae Daily Crura impello Bonus Boxing practice Yoga Visiting genii locorum Even Days Tabula scindere Orantes scindere Dorsum scindere recta, crux, obliquum & ramosa Reminders Electrolytes Score: Magical Ritual Cast one circle a day Ground energy once a day Score: Recovery 2 hours training started before noon. 6-8 hours sleep. In bed by midnight Bonus: 6pm schedule check-in and support tasks Score: Silentium Mentis Mindfulness Metta Body Scan Score: Home Front Reintegration I'm afraid I'm out of touch with the modern resources on shell shock and nervous exhaustion and the like. Do one thing a day related to 'mental health' education or improvement. Score: Record Keeping Make a daily plan Journal practice Make a weekly and monthly plan Score: Space reserved for office use Date rec'd: Initialed by: Form ID: Zulu Foxtrot 18.C.68-v2-Jun-1977 (ZF.18.C.68/1977.06) (Supercedes form 64B from Nov 1932) For internal use only. Sensitive records. Not to leave the Folly.

Coffee always has something creamy in it. That's an important element of coffee.

I don't anticipate bad prose being a problem, no. It may not be the story or style you're in the mood for, and thus warrant putting down after a good college try, but the technique isn't gonna suck. That's pretty safe.

Chocolate mint.

Well, now I've started putting giant handfuls of herbs into every meal. Two cups of basil here, a cup of oregano there. Nothing is safe.

Technically, fifty pages is the threshold when I get the reader credit. But I figure that when you start it, you're good for fifty pages, and I will begin my biscuit tin enchantment process.

I'm down from a twenty hour sleep deficit to a thirteen hour sleep deficit, which should come down a bit more once last night's sleep is factored in, maybe 10-11h. Single digits is livin' the dream. Anything under seven is arguably not really a deficit, but in the normal range. I've achieved that for very brief periods in my life.

I believe I have worked out how to enchant my biscuit tin. One more victim, and Project Haunted Biscuit Tin is go.

Obligatory rugby content. Modern wizardry, guys. I suspect 50% of Nightingale's idea of modern professional managerial skills are in fact rugby coaching skills. Training Performance Report Officer: Sara Kingdom Date: 21/09/23 Department: Special Assessment Unit Formae Daily Crura impello Bonus Boxing practice Yoga Visiting genii locorum Odd Days Tabula scindere Præfixa tabula scindere Gluteus pontis scindere Gluteus sedet scindere Volans scindere Calf raises Reminders Electrolytes Crura impello. Scindere. Score: 2 Magical Ritual Cast one circle a day Ground energy once a day Score: Recovery 2 hours training started before noon. 6-8 hours sleep. In bed by midnight Bonus: 6pm schedule check-in and support tasks Sleep. Training. (Just.) Score: 2 Silentium Mentis Mindfulness Metta Body Scan Body scan. Score: 1 Home Front Reintegration I'm afraid I'm out of touch with the modern resources on shell shock and nervous exhaustion and the like. Do one thing a day related to 'mental health' education or improvement. Score: Record Keeping Make a daily plan Journal practice Make a weekly and monthly plan Score: Space reserved for office use Date rec'd: Initialed by: Form ID: Zulu Foxtrot 18.C.68-v2-Jun-1977 (ZF.18.C.68/1977.06) (Supercedes form 64B from Nov 1932) For internal use only. Sensitive records. Not to leave the Folly.

And not overly inclined to meddle in the kitcheny realm. That would be rude. They have a division of labor. Apparently it's not betrayal if it's one's job to ensure people are training safely. Apparently. (This, I have been told, is my own fault for selecting him to oversee my challenge.) Shhh. Stupid wizard already thinks he knows nearly everything.