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[metawidget]

I just realized that from Oscar's perspective, you've never needed to lick postage stamps. They wanted to know about the history of stickers this morning and I was thinking old lick-and-stick technology was old… I'd forgotten it is also kind of obsolete.

I've got my one dose of Pfizer/BioNTech in me and am currently contributing a bit of plasma to the system — apparently it's a tough year for a system that's kind of strapped in normal times. I'll pick up a few things while I'm out in Gatineau proper and hope I don't get soaked by the rain. We have dates on both sides of the river for relaxing restrictions further; it's nice to have a light at the end of the tunnel but it'll be a pretty quiet long weekend. Maybe ice cream and not-too-crowded beach on Monday?

Planning feels like a mug's game this summer, but it does feel like summer. A few more weeks of school, and then full on summer with things loosened up a bit but kids bouncing off the walls. I hope we'll find our new rhythm, have some fun with household and pod, and be able to plan again in the fall.

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I used some old lickable stamps just recently on a card for Ada. Then there's lickable envelopes. I do find that they stick better than the peelable strip type that are mostly sold these days - when I use those, I often have to resort to using scotch tape too, which rather defeats the purpose!

Yes, there are many examples of technologies, methodologies and expressions (like "clockwise") that are falling into disuse. Unfortunately, new does not always equal improved. Examples: the plastic strips on containers of juice or the little "plugs" in cartons of cream, both of which tend to break off at the most inopportune moments! In the feline world, I've also noticed that the cats of today do not tend to react to can openers as they used to, since most wet catfood comes in flip-top tins (and again the ring sometimes breaks off, forcing us to revert to an older technology!)

We got our first ice cream cones of the season at Purple Cow on Thursday! Looking forward to the one-scoop summer and two scoop/dose fall that our politicians & health experts are promising!