Hey, look!

There's a picture of the ETG Book Cafe in here! And a discussion of the food co-op they're trying to start.

Man, I love the ETG. They have the best - the best - coconut rolls you'll ever taste, and they're vegan. No dairy!

An article on the oldest temple ever yet found

From athanata. Edit: Whoops, and also interactiveleaf.

Something like 11,000 years old. Before writing. Before agriculture. And nobody knew.

BIG EXCITEMENT!

The niecelings came running downstairs to announce to us that there was a PIGEON and it SCARED them! Then they turned and pointed to the pigeon in the kitchen, at which point I asked my mom to see if they were telling the truth.

Yup.

The girls had great fun screaming (Evangeline actually clapped both hands on her cheeks, seriously), and then ran to... my room, apparently, where they Are Not Allowed.

My mom and I opened windows. Poor pigeon went for the wrong window, but, learning from the mistake, checked out the second window *very thoroughly* before flying through it.

This is what passes for excitement in my life. Pigeons.

Aw, well, I like pigeons.

Isn't it weird how you can go *months* without thinking about or discussing something?

But then one day *everybody* is talking about it?

All of a sudden, various fora and comms I'm in are talking on and on about handedness. After months of no discussion on the subject, suddenly three or four or five people realized their kids are left-handed, all at the same time. (And these aren't all school-aged children either.)

Weird.

Anyway, at one place people are talking about the various things they do with their non-dominant hand. Like, one person writes left-handed, but does nearly everything else with her right hand. Another person is predominately lefty, but uses scissors and can openers righty. A third is right-handed except when it comes to most sports, apparently.

As for me? I'm almost exclusively left-handed. I've posted before about that weird feeling that my right side isn't even part of my body that I get sometimes, right? Except there are *two things* I do exclusively with my right hand.

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Seriously, if I try to do those with my left hand it's like my body isn't built right, nothing fits together and it's highly uncoordinated.

I've refrained from commenting about that elsewhere, as you can imagine :P

I'll be off now, but for one last word of advice:

There is no such thing as lefty-righty scissors! Left-handed scissors are jointed differently from right-handed scissors. So called "ambidextrous" scissors are just righty scissors with weird handles.

That is all.