I understand this! Today is the day I’m gonna finally get off my butt and go for a run. Spent the last couple weeks getting my food back in order. We do have a subgroup for fitness on here somewhere… And several of us do a Fitbit weekly challenge too if you have one.
But the work thing totally makes sense to me. I am so exhausted mentally after dealing not only with clients but mentoring the newer staff that I can barely make it home, and then work around the house on my days off exhausts me physically. I guess these would be those “mind over matter” times our teachers always told us about eh? One step at a time.
ETA: by run I met fast walk. Clearly 10k% humidity is not a good time to run.
Wife keeps talking about us needing to take the dogs for a walk. Lately, the sidewalks have been hot enough to burn their feetsies, so it hasn’t happened just yet. I know that the puppers would probably walk in the grass most of the time, but crossing driveways and/or going into the street to go around parked cars is still a concern, so I didn’t mention to her.
Ha! Yeah, I know there are such things, but much like Noodle, I can’t see Scrappy or Itzy (or me) enjoying the process of strapping them on. Based on an old blog post from Odd Todd, I think city dogs can appreciate them more, or at least understand why they need to wear shoes.
I’m kind of amazed people let their cats be outdoor cats in so many areas. if nothing else, cars are a huge hazard.
One of our neighbors was surprised we have increasingly brave raccoons in the neighborhood… Then we found out she leaves food out for stray cats. Do you think these might be connected?
I’m having one of those moments where I think I have at least heard of this recently. Checking, it looks like the US supermarket chain Harris Teeter has started carrying it. I have no idea if it’s considered ‘exotic’ in Australia, but I’m guessing it’s here as a sort of exotic/import/novelty drink.
It’s probably like Foster’s was back in the 90s. They made it out to be this exotic thing but every Aussie I’ve ever met says it’s shit. Kind of like the Australian version of Budwesier I guess.
Sadly I can answer that. No. How do I know? Because the coyotes and skunks in our neighborhood live together very nicely. Both causing havoc in their own individual ways.
I’d guess that it’s not exotic in Australia - it certainly isn’t in New Zealand, it’s pretty popular here.
I’m not a beer drinker (actually, I don’t drink any alcohol) so I can’t comment on Foster’s, but Bundaberg is actually pretty good. They do a range of carbonated drinks, the best of which are the ginger beer and the sarsaparilla. The ginger beer is marketed as being brewed from an old family recipe, but I take that as marketing bullshit.
There are a number of different ginger beers available here, ranging from too sweet to too dry. The Bundaberg one is firmly in the middle, being pretty much spot on.
For those who’ve read the Discworld series, ginger beer always makes me think of the book Night Watch, in which it’s used as part of interrogating a witness.
Plus until recently, I don’t think ginger beer was common in the US. Ginger ale, yes. Not sure of the difference but I think they’re different.
They are quite different in flavour, yes.
Apparently ginger ale is just carbonated water that has been flavoured with ginger. Whereas ginger beer is actually brewed. Because it is brewed / fermented there is a very small amount of alcohol present, but it’s so low that it qualifies as a non-alcoholic drink. Ginger beer also tends to be a little less fizzy than ginger ale.
I actually made my own ginger beer a long time ago. From memory the recipe involved ginger (obviously), yeast, sugar, lemons, water (not sure about the lemons, that may have been something else).
Whether or not the manufacturers do still actually brew the beer, it is definitely quite different to ginger ale.
