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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Nope, a “moon” was a single cycle of the moon through its phases, which is closest to a month out of the units we use currently.

    While you can ignore that and use the word however you want, and it’s definitely possible that people have done so as a form of word play to indicate shorter units of time, it does have a usage that’s been around for a least a couple hundred years in English, and way longer in other languages.

    The word month comes from moon, and in other languages, the words for month are usually also derived from their words for moon.

    In English, the way the word evolved, a it was the period of time from one “new” moon to the next.

    Many moons, as a phrase, came from a native American term that was used to express “a long, but undetermined time ago”. It isn’t exclusive to any specific peoples, nor only to native Americans, but the English idiom version came from a translation from a native speaker

    Trade is, however, a similar term for “a long time” that’s used almost exclusively an an exaggeration, “a month of Sundays”. In a literal sense, that would mean approximately 30 Sundays, obviously, which isn’t even a full year, but it’s almost always used to express a much longer, but unspecified, time frame.








  • Overall, probably strawberry rhubarb, despite the fact that I’m otherwise not a big strawberry fan.

    However, I make lemon meringue pie from scratch every now and then, and my lemon meringue pie is my favorite pie of all. I’ve gotten my crust recipe dialed in, and I’ve gotten my curd making tuned for exactly the right consistency. After I got mine down, I don’t like other people’s as much as I used to.

    But key lime pie? It isn’t my favorite, but damn is it good :)


  • I mean, the limits of the human body are fairly fixed in terms of what we can do with them. And, you’re better off just slightly tweaking things. Like, my arthritis, I’d want to dial back the inflammation and immune response for, but if you cut those back too much, it hinders other things.

    I’d definitely regulate the bowels though, make sure things stayed regular and smooth, as much as possible. IBS is a pain in the ass, so being able to adjust that down to minimum hassle would be life changing, literally.

    But most things? You don’t wanna fuck with day-to-day operations. You really only want to adjust when things are going wrong, and even then, not as much as you’d think.

    You’d think the switching off the internal triggers for depression and anxiety would be great, but everything is connected. You start fucking with that outside of major events, and you throw off everything else because the dopamine, oxyticin, serotonin, norinephine, and other neurochemicals affect each other too much.

    So, the key would be to delicately adjust all of that, a little bit at a time, so that you get relief without leaving you unable to process emotions at all.

    I think that’s where the “power” would be best directed for most people. Keeping mental shit from being overwhelming.

    The obvious exception is stuff like my arthritis, autoimmune disorders. The ability to just say “nope, don’t attack that at all” would be bonkers. Think about it, Crohn’s, MS, all the horrible shit that can happen when the immune system is out of whack, that’s within the scope of what you’re asking.

    Hell, if you want to stretch it, most cancers are part of the function of the organ they’re in. It’s the normal cells going batshit and replicating out of control. So you’d never have to worry about cancer.

    That would be incredible.