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Note to self: if a liquid product is three months past its expiration date, you need to get rid of it immediately.

if the packet of yogurt culture is three months past its expiration date, it's just dead.

ah, well, at least all I wasted was about a quart of super plain oat milk. the oat pulp will end up in bread or pancakes, so no harm done there, ultimately.

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Heard the raven today.

Gonna be honest, between the croaking I've been hearing from that bird (QWWRRRAH! QWWRRAH!) and my one encounter with a raven in... Nanaimo, I think?... years ago, the most impressive thing to me about Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem is that Mr. Mopeypants Narrator was able to understand the word 'nevermore' at all.



(I've encountered other ravens. Mostly on a trip to Alaska, where they were basically screwing around on people's parked cars. The bird in Nanaimo, however, was one that I only noticed because I heard what sounded like someone with hearing impairment or difficulty speaking calling out 'hello, hello'; I turned around and... no person, but a large black bird was perched nearby.)

(I said hello back, of course. And later that day, bought some marbles to scatter around the general area, thinking that shiny objects were probably a respectable gift to leave for a raven to find if I couldn't come up with food.)