Daily Slow Chat

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1. Oh, no, Reddit ate my comment. Or was it automod? Anyway, I am sure noone wants to read my two paragraph rant about the last two detective books that I read. 

   As I commute on this 6 am train, drinking tea from my super standard German Emsa portable cup, I noticed how much of my life revolves around carrying food with me. Okay, not too much, but I at least have lunch every day, and breakfast on occasions like this when I am on the train before crows had their breakfast (not too often, thankfully). When I am travelling, I’ll also take stuff with me like sandwiches, fruit, water etc. I can buy food, of course, but stuff I have with me is nicer, cheaper, fewer calories and always available without me having to calculate extra time for acquiring food. 

   What about you guys? Do you usually have food with you when you are out and about, or do you prefer to get it somewhere?

2. Talked to a Brit here who told me he’d never go back to the UK because he loved the “quality of life” so much here.

   I stopped listening as soon as he said that as my brain just immediately defaulted to [Stewart Lee](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2iom1b).

   Maybe the way to love this place is to start eating seafood?

3. A coworker worker said her parents saw a culture of feeding stray cats in Greece, which reminded me of what u/tereyaglikedi said about Turkey. Sounds kind of cute, but it seems like there’ll be major issues with stray animal population growth.

4. Anyone booked tickets to Auschwitz recently?

   I’m trying to book for later in the year but find it impossible to actually pay. There’s no payment option during the booking process, and the pay options on both the order confirmation and order history page just returns an error.

   I’ve of course emailed them for help but wondered if anyone else had had this issue, while I wait for them to respond.

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   I’m also really unsure about how I feel about going to Auschwitz. I visited Sachsenhausen a few years back where *only* 50,000 people were killed, and that was soul crushing. I honestly don’t know how to deal with going somewhere as crushing as Auschwitz.

5. For some reason the other day I thought of the scene in The Simpsons of Lisa’s future fiancé arriving at the Simpson house to be greeted by a British flag that had caught fire through an unfortunate accident. I always think to myself that if I ever showed up to a friend’s house overseas and they proudly displayed a burning American flag that it would rule and I’d love them even more haha. But I suppose that depends on what your country’s flag represents to you. What do you think?

6. Well I hope your anti-histaminics are in order, because it’s hay season, baby!

   We finally have a hot, dry window in this otherwise dismal summer, which means every farmer and their moms are out there harvesting hay. Us included! It’s exhausting work that doesn’t bring much money, but it’s good for the soil and allows us to take some extra profit from awkward bits of land, like our fruit orchards and apiaries.

   So for the past few days, and until the end of the week, instead of finally enjoying the swimming pool we’ve been going to bed with our bodies fully wrecked and mildly dehydrated. Friday we will be pressing the hay into bales, which is the funnest part.

   The downside of living in the agricultural countryside though, is the amount of shit you’ll be casually inhaling throughout the year. I’m not super pumped to be sniffing tractor diesel fumes the whole week…