updates from the quarantine couch

February 18, 2019

Welcome to Corgi-Class Starship, the newsletter that's absurdly thankful for Target's house-brand "ultra soft" Kleenex knockoffs this week. 

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Update(s) on thing(s) I made or somehow helped to bring about.Idea Factory Giveaway98 - Going Full Data"Jon (@ferociousj), guest co-host Kelly (@enthusiosity), and special guest Ian Sayre (@iansayre) reveal some shockingly good (or maybe just shocking) ideas for mass entertainment and food, among others."I'm just going to say it: the first two entertainment ideas we discuss genuinely have nearly boundless potential, but the rights/logistics would be a nightmare the likes of which civilization has never seen. The third idea is ......... different.If you haven't yet, subscribe by searching "Idea Factory Giveaway" in your podcatcher of choice (and let me know if it doesn't pop up). If you're already there, feel free to leave a 5-star rating and a nice review (it helps; algorithms, etc, you know the deal).Instant Band Night 9: PI DAYOh, it's happening, and you should be there. If you can't, you should invite some friends!Eventbrite // Facebook 

Medium Ramble

Skippable if you're in a hurry.I don't have much for you here this week because I'm getting over a cold (more on that below), so maybe just check out #dadthoughts and I'll see you here next time! 

#dadthoughts

Also skippable if you're in a hurry or don't care. No judgment.We put Quentin in a twice-a-week nannyshare, and after three days (two half days for trial purposes and two full ones) he caught a cold. This is as it should be, of course -- intellectually I know kids should have contact with other kids, trade minor bugs, and thereby diversify their immune systems' antibody portfolios, as it were (while also getting all their vaccines, obviously) -- but in practice, I do not recommend it. He never spiked a bad fever, but you would not believe the quantity of snot we've dealt with, and now he's got a cough that appears occasionally during the day but gets worse at night, because for some reason they always do. Why is that?And of course he passed it to us. There was just no way to avoid it: there was no practical way to wash my hands after literally every time I touched him, and it seemed inadvisable to smear his entire body in hand sanitizer for many reasons. I succumbed first -- my edition came with a sore throat just for added flair -- but I was able to make some from-scratch chicken soup before it knocked me down, and I was only fully out of commission for roughly a day. My energy has mostly returned and my sore throat is gone, but I've used approximately 70,000 tissues today and am honestly considering just bedding down on the couch without even trying to go into the bedroom -- my snotty face is almost certainly going to start snoring, and that's not something I want to inflict on Mavis right now. Mavis, because she is a superhuman, took care of both Quentin and I on the day of my microbe-induced couchbound state, and did an incredible job -- and then she caught it. Either her immune system is more attuned or she's decided to power through it by sheer titanic force of will alone, because she doesn't seem to have been felled by it the way I was, knock on wood. Fucking hell: as I type this, my left nostril is just streaming clear snot and I've finished a box of tissues. Yeah, I think I'm going to couch it tonight. Thank you for reading this diary entry! 

Fascination Corner

I read a lot of newsletters; here are some links that caught my eye. 

A Fictional Thing

Something made-up that somehow suggested itself to me and which I could not escape.Some ships belonging to the CultureGCU Sexy Wolfman CostumeGSV (System class) Baba O'RileyROU Further Points of Articulation 

Thanks

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