WTF-Beta

Ah well, it was nice while it lasted....

Filigree

Scene

… to not be getting any emails.

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-teams-6376045281feb430c0b923e3a4b251c2

@Bernard Oh that's good!!

Feet

Cool photos!!

I love the Minster and library/bus station!

@wtg agreed, we have to be careful, perhaps vigilant is the better word, but using it well can bring a lot of benefits.

Yay!!

Parting

@AndyD totally clueless over here, but great photos!

@wtg your 1960s is charming!

Also, I like the jam one!

Re origins, as I poke around online, it seems maybe they were common in Germany, doesn't it. (My family is Italian-American, so Catholic, but I think maybe it wasn't a thing in the Italian-American community back then)

Ham

@jon-nyc good point. I don’t know that I could explain it if pressed.

It seems like advent calendars are everywhere now (online at least). As a kid, I don’t remember even knowing what an advent calendar was. In fact, I first remember really noticing them when I moved to Japan. I remember another English teacher talked about having her students make them for a cross-cultural activity, and I would see them in import shops where they were presented as an example of a western Christmas tradition. I remember just assuming that it was a British thing.

But evidently that’s not the case.

Were advent calendars part of your Christmas tradition growing up?

Chainmail

I’m pretty sure Chun King Chow Mein was sold into the 70s.

And Bireley’s orange juice is sold in Japan, owned by Asahi, the company that makes beer. I drank it a lot when I lived in Japan, I didn’t know it was originally a U.S. company.

 https://dw4dgbtzbcxdk.cloudfront.net/img/goods/L/S00925_1.jpg

@wtg said:

I was starting to think about selling my digital piano but this has prompted me to reconsider...

Don’t do it!! Play it!

Best comment (that I’ve read so far)

I’m not sure if learning to play the piano makes me smarter but it does make me happier.

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