Sure. Jehovah's witnesses, Baptists, and Miss Mary, mom of a friend of one of my kids, nice lady but the only fundamentalist Catholic I've ever met, so many kids that each one got a birthday party every 5 years (but a BIG party), we went to one and there was a pony, little tables set up in their yard for the kids, she wrote a song as a present for her kid and sang it, that was nice, and when the kids were getting their pictures taken, said "say Jesus!" to get them to smile.

Oh and once when I was a kid my friend took me to their church and there was speaking in tongues, they did not want me to leave without being overcome and speaking in tongues that was kind of terrifying.

There also used to be a church near us called "The Church of Christ Upon the Rock of the Apostolic Faith Holy Temple #2" . Which always made me wonder where the first one was.

Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?

There's an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!

Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.

We live near a park with alligators in an exhibit, they are well fed and lounge on the banks of a little pond, with some turtles, sunning themselves - so I always let my kids lean over the railing, not touch them or anything but I didn't worry about it since they were fed & lazy.

Until one day, we saw one of them lunge at a turtle and grab it, moving so fast! Crunch crunch gulp. Which disabused me of two wrong ideas. One, that these alligators did not care to have a snack, and two, that nothing but eagles could eat turtles. Someone had told me that no animal could bite through a turtle shell, but that eagles would drop them from a great height to crack them open, and since I'd never seen another animal eat a turtle, I bought it.

So after that, no more leaning over.

Mmm kimchi. Kinda surprised it is a probiotic doing the work and not more the cabbage, fiber is so important for, well, elimination.

You might want to try getting help if it's getting in the way of your life - I do know off my chest isn't for advice though so I'll just say oof, that sucks! And I hope it eases for you somehow.

That looks delicious. I know when I do a rye I aim for bouncy & dense, this looks so evenly risen for such a tight crumb.

The bus system here will pair new people with a sherpa, show you how to load a bike onto the front bike rack, etc. because they recognize this problem.

If you are just really uncomfortable with uncertainty in general, that can be a problem. I like to muddle through more than my husband does, he's more like you are, but I don't think you can get to a point where you are controlling for everything, and there will always have to be a first time - you have to do that to get yourself from here to experienced. So if you are only asking about the bus specifically I would go ahead and submit your questions by email like you are thinking, and recognize you just are gonna have to jump in. It might also help to practice asking people things, like even if you do know, ask the person next to you "can we go into any door or only the front?" Practice.

Somewhat tangential but you should read the story of how WaWa did an end run around a corporate takeover.

T-Mobile had the worst customer service of any company I have dealt with, then had a turnaround to the best customer service of any company, but now, sadly, not so great. Though not nearly as bad as it was to start.

I watch plenty of animated stuff but not specifically kids stuff. Movies I would, shows not so much.

Books, though? Some of the best written and most interesting books I've read as an adult were labeled as YA books.

Never mind - looking through the comments at what is called kid cartoons, yes I do watch them.

Two months now waiting for them to "pre-approve" a cheap calcium score test the doctor wants me to get (high cholesterol since forever, no symptoms no family history of stroke or heart attack so no way to know whether to bother treating it without looking). The lab has rescheduled it thrice now.

Which makes zero sense because finding out with what the doctors call a primary cardiac event would be exponentially more expensive for them.

Stainless steel moka pot. KitchenAid grinder. Naviera cuban roast coffee beans.

Grind medium, fill bottom of the pot with 160F water, put the filter basket on and fill it with the ground beans. Screw on the top part and precipitate a pot of strong coffee. Heat some milk in a mug and pour coffee over it. Enjoy.

If work day, fill thermos with the black coffee and a mason jar with whole milk and take those to work to make 2 big lattes. At home someone usually grabs what is left after I make one.

Just hang your clock up with 1 at the top then? Why not start the day at 1? What is magic about 12?