Daily Slow Chat

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1. I know that vacation time has arrived by the volume of itineraries posted on the travel subs here on Reddit!

   Do you or would you ever post a travel itinerary for other people to comment or make suggestions?

2. Yesterday I was on a walk and saw lots of honeysuckle growing in the countryside. Do you guys also bite off the end of honeysuckle flowers and suck the nectar? I love it. Honeysuckle is such a big thing from my childhood, it grew everywhere. I should plant some, too.

   Last week I saw the orthopedist again for my knee, which never completely healed from pain. Apparently it’s not the knee but the IT band which seems to have some blockage of sorts? Don’t know how that works. I got some exercises. I guess the doctor thought if I am dead I won’t have knee pain anymore. Some are really hard. Let’s see if it helps.

   I also posted my horror story yesterday. It was supposed to be 1000 words, but it’s almost twice as long 😩 luckily I am not entering the contest. [Here it is, in case someone’s interested](https://archiveofourown.org/works/66339646). I might write more horror. It’s fun.

3. A specialist whose name and title I missed, stated yesterday on Finnish tv that the protesters in Los Angeles need some “marketing advice”: he said they’re not winning any American hearts on their side by waving their original home countries flags on American streets. Makes sense to me.

4. I read an article about a 70s soul band called ‘The Stylistics’… it’s the 50th anniversary of their ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation, apparently one of the biggest selling albums of that period in the UK.

   I remember that my Mum had this album, she used to play it a lot…I was a very young child but looking at the tracks I still remember some of the songs and lyrics.

   What kind of music did your parents listen to when you were a little kid? Do you still listen to the same music that they did?

5. This morning, my new flatmate said to me, and I quote: “My birthyear makes me a Gen Z, but in actual fact I feel like I’m about 80% Millennial while I only feel about 20% Gen Z”.

   Can anyone recommend me a good method of putting this person out of his misery? For his sake as much as mine.

6. I read something which will probably not be so surprising. You know how Barbie faced a lot of criticism for decades and in the end they started doing all this “diversity”campaign by including Barbies of different skin color and sizes. It seems like, as you might guess, none of these Barbies sell nearly as well as the blonde one (in fact their sales are barely a fraction of the blonde classic Barbie sale). But, if toy stores don’t have these on shelves, their overall Barbie sales go down. So people don’t want to buy these “diverse Barbies” but they want them to be on shelves so that they can feel better about buying the blonde Barbies? Ethical consumption capitalism yada yada and so on.

   I had Barbies as a kid but I never thought I should aspire to look like one. I did try to do my hair like Sailor Moon, though. It’s very hard.

7. Mosquito season has started, it seems. I haven’t seen any so far, but last night I was out for like two or three hours and I got bit by a billion mosquitos. All of you who haven’t been to the north in the summer time, you have no idea how intense the mosquitos are. Genuinely, it’s mental. I was wearing jeans and a long sleeved shirt too and those motherfuckers got me good.

   Also, rip Sly Stone! God damn. There’s a Riot Going’ On is one of my favourite albums of all time, and If You Want Me to Stay, what a song that is. One of the greatest funk musicians of all time, such a unique voice too. If you haven’t listened to Sly and the Family Stone, now is a good time to check them out.

8. Speaking about music and old soul/funk….Sly Stone died yesterday.

   I’m listening to “There’s a riot goin’ on’ now… it’s a great album!