the baby snake is learning how to roll around, occasionally bumping into things on my watch -- wife feels i dont coddle him enough: "its no big deal, pressure makes diamonds 💎" "oh please, you and i both know diamonds are worthless 💊🍊"

our baby snake is 4 months old today 🥳 TIL of a long-standing family tradition of 收涎, literally translated as "anti-drooling ceremony. the idea is that babies stop drooling when they grow up so everyone getting together to find ways to soak up all the baby's drool early should make them grow up faster. ....so obviously one surrounds babies with cookies, breaking off pieces to soak up his drool 🤭 these traditions make no sense, but at least it's fun. the family goes around in circles and come up with funny rhymes. 收涎收乾乾，趕緊叫爸爸 (soak up all your drool, so you can start saying daddy) 收涎收灕灕，乎你聽話懂代誌 (soak up all your drool, so you'll behave and gain understanding) this tradition is still practiced in Taiwan and Fujian province of China. some use fancy pastries, doughnuts, or cakes; we went for traditional cookies ~2500 sats

found a forgotten drip coffee maker in a closet cleaned it up, made room for it. been making pour overs for like 4 years, taught me a lot about coffee. ....turns out i suck at making pour overs 😮‍💨 (pouring warm/hot water in the reservoir is a neat trick 😋)

another record-breaking tuna season🤤 restrictions for catching bluefin tuna start 6/5 😰, only halfway through the tuna season when i was younger, these kind of news would make me go "sustainability and love the ocean's animals 🥰" nowadays: "damned government price controls!"😡

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