My family would always drink very strong iced tea with orange juice (instead of sugar or lemon). I loved it as a kid but haven’t had it probably since my grandmother died 20 years ago (how is time??!!). I’ve never heard of others who drank iced tea that way.

Seltzer on tap? I have a seltzer fizzer but ON TAP? That's the dream.

It is literally the only good thing I can name about this terrible cursed building, but it is VERY nice.

I think I like tea in all its forms. Hot, cold, sweet, unsweet, fruit flavored, herbal, black, green, etc. Knowing that, you'd think I'd drink it more often.

Sweet tea and unsweet are two entirely different categories of drink.

Seltzer on tap? I have a seltzer fizzer but ON TAP?

We have those at the office and it is very nice. You could do it plain or add flavors at various levels of intensity (not sweeteners, just flavors like watermelon or lemon or mint).

Since I’m not in the office today, and had a 30 minute break between calls, I decide to move a large coat rack from one side of the living room room to the other to solve a space issue.

Fast-forward 30 minutes and I have run the dishwasher, replanted a rosebush, planted some zinnias, and taken out the trash.

No movement on the coat rack front. I’m not even sure how I got from plan A to plan C to plan 11.

I’m not even sure how I got from plan A to plan C to plan 11.

Tim calls this the "but-firsts": "I'm going to move the coat rack but first I need to run the dishwasher. [runs dishwasher] Okay, next the coat rack, but first I'll take out the trash. [takes out trash, notices flowers] Okay, for sure the coat rack next, but first I'll plant these flowers since I'm out here already."

I am so familiar with that type of productivity.

And now I am going to finish editing this article, BUT FIRST I am going to take a nap before I fall asleep at the keyboard. (Seriously, my eyelids are drooping and my head is starting to nod. This is one of those days I'm glad I WFH.)

Tim calls this the "but-firsts"

Yeah. I am having more and more trouble with this habit. To the point where I take a few steps towards the "but first" task, get distracted, and forget both tasks.

Most lemonade is too sweet for me.

This is why if I want something in a restaurant that isn't water or wine, and the place has unsweetened tea, I order a half & half. (Sorry, but in New England this has always been called thus and I refuse to call it an Arnold Palmer.) The blend results in the perfect sweetness level.

I avoid all artificial and "natural" sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit because products with them always taste sickly sweet to me. I hate that it is almost impossible to get protein powder without them. Like, if I'm putting protein powder in a smoothie or oatmeal or something, I can easily put other sweet things in there if I want to. I don't need the powder itself to be sweet.

ETA: I always forget the asterisk turns into a bullet.

Last night, I was on a CodePink webinar with a Jacqueline from San Francisco, and for a moment, it was very hard not to run over and start...Idk, start spouting fannish nonsense at her. Even though there might be hundreds of Jacquelines in the region, and we only back-channelled and stuff--say, quarterly and we usually approached lefty things from different angles--and I don't mean porn-- but it wasn't completely wrong to think that was a thing she might have come to...still glad I didn't really do that. It might have been a lot to explain.