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My friend is unpacking her car. Let's take a moment to appreciate that this is the first time in forever that I'm using the verb "unpacking" in the traditional sense, and not in the intellectual jargon that means "break down" (which a car can do, too,) or the basic "explain," which a car can't do. Unless it is AI operated, in which case, there is nothing to unpack. It will do all the thinking for us. Hey, Elon. When you aren't busy blowing up rockets and social media, can you build a car unpacker? Thanks, Signed - Everyone with a car and a Costco membership.

See, this is why I can't do anything -- even respond to the prompt. My mind is a tangential nerve cluster.

My friend is unpacking her car. She's got a Brinks' value of Whole Foods items because she is a professional healthy chef with only one client: her family. She is a lawyer with serious bona-fides, but gave it up to raise her kids on organic, non-gmo, gluten free fresh meals. If she gave a hoot about Instagram, she could be the local Martha Stewart. Her food is not only nutritious, it photographs like a Conde Nast model.

My friend is unpacking her car. No one helps her. It doesn't bother her. There are multitudinous tasks we perform every day, unseen. Maybe there should be an Instagram account for all the things, so they can exist.

My friend is done unpacking her car, while we've been unpackingthe meaning.

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I just asked my five year old what he is thinking about. He said he doesn’t know. I prompted him again. He said, “ugh, just pick for me”. I love a good conversation but am surrounded by mutes, I swear.

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Doesn’t really strike at the heart of your question I realize but thought I would share

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I called my wife for this exercise and she’s home for the summer waiting for our kids to come home from swim practice, she was drinking her cup of joe, enjoying the silence and noticed a squirrel on her deck just laying there on the balcony handrail just as still as could be. She said it almost looked dead. After about 2 minutes the squirrel got up and started to stretch and scratch its ears with its miniature hind leg like a dog.

After a few more minutes the squirrel finally leapt into the air from the handrail to the closest tree branch and was back action

She had never seen a squirrel so lackadaisical

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I called my friend Alicia. We haven't spoken in a few months. We used to talk a lot more often when were playing the same online game, but that's no longer the case. I called her up and turns out she adopted a new cat. It was some stray that she started feeding. Once it became clear that it was not just lost, and she built up enough trust, she brought him inside then got him to the vet for shots and such. Now he follows her around one hundred percent of the time she's home. She's got a little murder mittens bodyguard these days. Neat!

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I just asked my supervisor what she was thinking about.

She just told me that she was thinking of putting off scheduling a new book club until the Fall. Especially since the child that requested that book club would not be around during the summer to participate.

She had been bouncing this idea with me for a couple of weeks and I was hopeful that it would happen. However, we need to go based off feedback around here. So, this is what we came up with.

She had also mentioned thinking about how to train a new staff member. I didn’t ask any further questions, because she looked stressed out enough.

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