Random Thoughts Thursday 499

• I added this to the bottom of my latest flying post but I know no one makes it that far, so I will share it again here — we flew with Eric this Sunday May 18th, and it turns out that it was 12 years to the day to the only other time we flew with him, on a helicopter ride, also by Chicago. Funny coincidence.

• Another funny coincidence — the owner of the fixed-based operator we went to in Gary found my post and commented on it! I’m always surprised when someone finds and comments on my blog.
• I am embarrassed I’ve been using hyphens when I should have been using em-dashes, for like, my entire life. As you can see above, I’ve started using them!
• I was telling a coworker about hyphen vs en-dash vs em-dash and we got into a discussion about grammar. She was telling me she struggles with it, giving effect vs affect as an example, so I asked her if she knew when to use fewer vs less and blew her mid when I explained it. I know. I’m so fun.
• We watched Fly Away Home this week. It’s a movie about a young New Zealander girl whose mother dies, and she goes to live with her father in Canada. She finds some goose eggs and imprints on the geese. The geese need to fly south for the winter and don’t know how so she flies in a light aircraft and they follow her. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid and Steven had never seen it. It holds up well for a PG movie from the 90s (when you let it slide how dangerous and illegal their flight is). And of course, watching it as an adult I picked up on the serious topics (death of a parent, an estranged parent, uprooting your life, depression) that didn’t register as a kid. As a kid, I also never researched the source material, and apparently a dude did do this with some geese in real life, but for experimental purposes — like they stole geese eggs. What the F.
• I’ve been trying out Google Gemini for note taking at work and it’s pretty good! It takes notes differently than me — it summarizes major topics, where I give more of a play by play with action items — but that makes more sense than what I was doing.
• Have you heard of “hands on the door syndrome” or “doorknob syndrome” or “doorknob phenomenon”? I heard about it in fictional book, in the context of therapy or healthcare, and it’s when someone doesn’t reveal important information until the end of an appointment, when they are leaving. (This phrase is also used in the context of abuse FYI.) I immediately wrote the phrase down because it made me think of someone I know. Then I thought about how I’m sometimes asking my doctor questions as they try to leave but it’s because they’re rushing through their spiel then trying to exit and that’s the first time I get a chance to ask anything! I wonder if they think I have this, ha ha.

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