"Laughter's been helping a lot. Last night I'm sitting in the recliner. Now, mind you, the recliner -- we just rewashed the cover because when we bought this cover for the recliner, it became Tux's chair. And then we put a blanket on it, and the blanket became Tux's blanket. And so we've been washing things 'cause it's, you know, reached that point. Things need to be washed. And so I'm sitting in the recliner last night. My husband says to me, "You know he'd be so pissed right now." And even though we're so sad, like, he would. How dare I be in his recliner? That was his chair. No one else could sit there. We'd have family over and everyone would just steer clear because he was sitting there. And you could not sit in it. So, made things a little frustrating I guess in some ways, but he was such a character. I miss him so much."

So, all this discussion of weeds makes me think about squirrels, because I actually really like squirrels and I know that some people think of them as a pest or a nuisance. And I recently -- um, well, my birthday present to myself was purchasing a bird feeder that has a camera in it. It takes videos of, um, any creature that lands on it, like a bird that, that lands and it has, then it has -- goes back to some database and identifies the bird and then like notifies me, the bird feeder owner, that there's been a visitor and I can like, you know, look at the, look at the video and, you know, pick which still shots I want to keep, if I want to keep any of them and so on. So I was off to a slow start first couple of days. I don't know, the birds didn't know about it or I didn't have the right seed in there and nobody came. Finally, I started getting some finches and a cardinal and, um, I kind of changed up the food a little bit. And then, voilà, after about a week I had my first squirrel visit. And, um, you know, some people hate when squirrels get into their bird feeders. I like squirrels, so I really don't mind. But, um, just today -- like, now the squirrel is like, seeing this little bird feeder as like -- as a true, reliable source of snacking. And I just opened the app recently 'cause I got a little notification, "Oh, you've had visitors!" And I looked and it has, you know, like this sort of set of cards, it's like a postcard every time it has a critter -- I should say bird, visits. And it was like, "27 minutes ago, squirrel. 23 minutes ago, squirrel. 18 minutes ago, squirrel." I mean it was like a stack of like, like 10 cards, of like squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel. And I just had to laugh because that, I mean, that's like such a -- that is the perfect, um, outline of, you know, most people's experience with squirrels with their bird feeder. Once they find it, like you're really in for it. Now, I will say, also, when I went, when I went through all those cards, because a black-capped chickadee was also a visitor,…

When my mother died in 2000, my son was 11. And my cousins came, and they said they would take my kids out to eat while we were at the funeral home, doing funeral home stuff. And they took him to an ice cream place, and they let my son have as much ice cream as he wanted. Well, that was a real nice thing to do, but it wasn't a real nice thing later. He didn't throw up, but no one knows why. He has a pretty tough gut. But that was like, horrible. My, my daughter who was with him just kept on saying, "I can't believe they let him eat all that. I can't believe they let him eat all that." Anyway, he has never eaten all that, but he still likes Superman ice cream best.

Have you ever pushed send on an email then realized too late that there was a mistake? One time at work, I made this happen in like an automated way that was kind of a mistake. So like the require- --  I work as a software developer. And so, we had a feature that we wanted this certifications report to go out every Monday morning to customers. And so it'd be like a list of their people and their certifications that were expiring soon. And it was just -- they just wanted this report to come to their email inbox every Monday morning. And so I built that, looked good locally, looked good in the staging environment, merged it, deployed it. But then Monday morning rolls around and customers are getting eight copies of this report in their inbox. I'm like, "Oh man. Did not mean to do that." So we were like looking into it, looking into it. We were like, "Okay, I think this is gonna work." And then the next Monday rolls around, customers still getting eight copies of this message in their inbox. And you know, we're -- our Customer Success Team is getting messages about this. They're like, "Hey, I'm getting eight copies, bluh-bluh-bluh-bluh-bluh."Yeah, it lasted for like, three or four weeks before we finally figured out, "Oh, we're running a redundant deployment in production." We have eight copies of our application server running for like a load balancing strategy, sort of. And, uh, yeah. Yeah, each one was sending this email message on a schedule whereas in our staging environment we just have one application server so it sent one email. So yeah, took us like almost a month to realize that. But then once we realized that, you know, we patched it, and it was fine, and it's fine. But, uh, but yeah. Definitely, definitely understandable to send a email that you didn't totally mean to send.

Probably the worst experience though that I've had, um, was when I was in Belize. We went on a hike and had a picnic, um, at the top of this h- -- this hill somewhere. I'm like trying to, I'm trying to -- I can picture it in my head and there were sand flies and I -- my -- again, I had capris on and my legs were just totally covered in bites. I mean covered in bites to the point where -- we were with a, um -- we went with Intrepid Tours. So we were with this, this local guide and he looked at my legs and he was like, "Okay. Like this is more than just like a couple of bites. Like we need to -- you need some medical attention." Like he was worried that like there was -- I was having such a reaction to these bites that, you know, something, something was going to happen to me. So I don't remember if he -- I think I had to go to, I think I had to go to the pharmacist because they were like -- these ones were sort of like oozing and pus-y and like they -- this, this is like more than just like itching. There was like some other like bad things going on basically. Um, so I think -- yeah, we did. We totally went to this pharmacist and he gave me this, this cream. And I think maybe I had to take like a pill or something, some sort of anti-inflammatory or I don't know, something -- kind of a pill. And we're in a country where I don't speak the language. I can't read anything that's on, you know, the ingredient list, like I have absolutely no idea what I'm slapping on my legs, what I'm ingesting like just -- I'm trusting that these people, you know, know what they're doing. But I mean, what else am I gonna do, right? So, um, so the, so the guide like the next day, you know -- so I had started to like, kind of, put the stuff on and, you know, the next day the guide was like, "Okay, let me, you know, like let me see what's going on." So I remember -- it was actually my birthday -- and I remember like looking down at my…