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Jul. 19th, 2025 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI have been listing stuff and there have been steady pickups (or at least commitment to pickup by people who have shown up in the past, so I trust these will happen), which is great. Today, someone asked, just before arriving to do a porch pickup of the Xaphoon, whether I knew a place he could donate a box of about a hundred new Christmas stockings.
That’s a brand new question to appear in my FB marketplace chats. Love the new stuff! I pointed him at:
https://www.bkorganizing.com/organizing-resources-in-boston/holiday-donation-resources-guide
And he seemed happy about it. Which means I have advanced to the next level of Helping People Use Google to Help Them With Their Projects.
ETA:
I walked with M.
I went to Trader Joe’s and bought a variety of things. I was there to restock chocolate chips and peanut butter but I usually get some produce while there and this time I also bought some chocolate fake ice cream. It is notable in that it has NO tapioca. And lo and behold, no sniffles after eating it. This really sucks. I think I actually genuinely am allergic to tapioca. Gah. I am NOT allergic to latex! Make it make sense.
ETAYA:
Today I learned the French word grincheux. I was curious, so I did a little looking around.
https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/grincher//1
That’s old! Apparently, the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Grumpy is Grincheux.
https://www.chroniquedisney.fr/perso/1937-grincheux.htm
Ted Geisel went to Paris in 1926, so he had to have known at least a little French. I guess the Grinch is French! It tracks.
That’s a brand new question to appear in my FB marketplace chats. Love the new stuff! I pointed him at:
https://www.bkorganizing.com/organizing-resources-in-boston/holiday-donation-resources-guide
And he seemed happy about it. Which means I have advanced to the next level of Helping People Use Google to Help Them With Their Projects.
ETA:
I walked with M.
I went to Trader Joe’s and bought a variety of things. I was there to restock chocolate chips and peanut butter but I usually get some produce while there and this time I also bought some chocolate fake ice cream. It is notable in that it has NO tapioca. And lo and behold, no sniffles after eating it. This really sucks. I think I actually genuinely am allergic to tapioca. Gah. I am NOT allergic to latex! Make it make sense.
ETAYA:
Today I learned the French word grincheux. I was curious, so I did a little looking around.
https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/grincher//1
That’s old! Apparently, the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Grumpy is Grincheux.
https://www.chroniquedisney.fr/perso/1937-grincheux.htm
Ted Geisel went to Paris in 1926, so he had to have known at least a little French. I guess the Grinch is French! It tracks.