That’s actually Corp speak for it’s not completely obligatory. I have meetings where it’s if you can attend you need to be in it. And then I have meetings where it doesn’t matter what you are doing you have to be in that meeting barring an emergency.

Let’s call it being shy (that’s not what it is.) We generally don’t like to share personal things unless we trust you. So doing this in front of a group of people almost feels like stage fright but worse. Think of being in front of a group of people that despite rationally knowing they are not hostile to you, the little squirrel in the back of your brain is convinced they are.

This can stem from several things such as generalized anxiety, to being judged previously for our interest. Many of us have interests that are out of the main stream, may be a niche interest specializing in a specific thing, or something that others consider childish.

Me too! I actually enjoy grocery shopping, as long as it’s not too crowded. We try to go late on Thursday, but a lot of times I end up going Saturday morning which is horrible.

What is it about?

I love the our Asian markets. They have all the teas.

I hope it was better than you expected.

Good to know. Hopefully they fix that.

My niece was initially non verbal. She was given a sound pad with pictures initially that helped her communicate. Now she’s a little chatter bot!

She wanted to play with her rainbow ribbon and when I went to pick it up for her, she got excited and accidentally clawed me instead.

Sadly, I could not find another word.

I put a to-do list on my phone’s home screen so I won’t ignore it. Yeah I ignore it.

That sounds delicious. I think the squirrels managed to eat all of our apples, but our trees are still young and not growing much fruit yet.

How did it go?

Back in the day I was in the IRC book piracy scene. “Ebooks” weren’t out yet. So someone would scan a book page by page. Then they would hand it off for editing basically. First revision was the straight OCR (Optical Character Reader), then usually someone would do a pass through to take out any weird characters and what not. That second revision would then be handed off to someone like myself who would read the actual book and correct any typos the OCR created. I read books on a Palm Pilot.

Oooh very cool.

No just one dish like a casserole and then portion it out for lunches.

That’s more ambitious than me,

Well at least it wasn’t just you!