Where are you seeing the 1/26 date? Everything on the IRCC page looks like things are in effect as of today. (This is me seeking clarification, not issuing a correction.)

(thanks again to @rosemarymosco.com & @calikalo.bsky.social for helping me realize these changes were coming. I'll be thanking you at least one more time when the paperwork is finished processing)

"are you able to use it on yourself when needed, Dan?"

yeah, great question...

I appreciate your commitment. (It's less that I think it's no longer funny and more that the funny to effort ratio has tipped)

everyone will think it's part of the show. The perfect cover!

there was an aspiring potter whose father apprenticed him to a blacksmith, so in an act of quiet rebellion he made the swords extra long because he loved claymore

(I know that the only people to get that joke will be mad because it's clearly not a seax, but that pun got estoc in my head)

haven't seen him yet, but the wife of Canada's first prime minister is probably glad for it

"chore watch" meaning what I watch while doing chores, not that watching it is a chore

I'd also hazard a guess that her advance had at least one more zero at the end of it than yours

I run a book club, asked a few people to join us, spent the time between sending and hearing back wondering if they were going to respond with a fee we'd pay them to do it. I can't imagine asking someone to pay me for the privilege of listening to some randos talk about their work.

so on Saturday it either plays Frisco Kid or The Wiz?

It is tempting