Trash talk Facebook all you want, my friends, it still has its uses. Like event planning. That’s how I know when and where all my friends’ bands are playing (when I’m too tired to go see them and end up falling asleep before 10pm). And I’ve been offloading all sorts of stuff I don’t want to take with us this next move. And Facebook can be great for recommendations and networking. Monday I posted about my son’s dream job falling through and needing to find other employers who embrace neurodiversity. So many folks offered great suggestions. We’re checking one out today. I’m not sure how to increase my kid’s enthusiasm. He really had his heart set on the other job. I don’t know how much of it is related to his autism and how much is the fact that he’s a teenaged male and an only child and the oldest grandkid. Honestly this is probably a good life lesson, that you can’t always get what you want.
Five-ish Good Things:
- Heck yeah! This is HUGE news: Ethiopia’s Abiy and Eritrea’s Afewerki declare end of war
- Firefly Squid are so beautiful and cool
- The delightful Lane Moore has written a book that speaks to me - How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t - and it is available for pre-order.
- I’ve been listening to a lot of Parquet Courts lately. I snickered when I first saw this headline: Sean Yeaton hates Don McLean’s arrogant American Pie but it makes sense now that I’ve read it.
- File under nostalgia from North America, and Europe:
- The Mystery Man Who Spent 20 Years Photographing North American Buildings - His name was Barry Gfeller, and he left behind an astonishing 50,000 previously unseen images.
- Dig into an Incredible Compendium of Objects Excavated from the Bottom of Amsterdam’s Amstel River
- Minneapolis treasure Allen Christian has been at his craft for decades now. I first found House of Balls in the North Loop in the mid-90s. But he recently posted a video from an even earlier era. Pretty neat.
Our big move is just ten days away now, though I have until the end of July to get everything out of the old place. The timing was perfect to find out about this great resource for Minneapolis area residents. I’ll try to thoughtfully donate the items I don’t sell at our big moving sale.
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