Dispute the charge with your CC company.
Iām about to put the fucking hammer down. Tomorrow!
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Oh, Canada. 
Ohhh no! 
I had to Google. My heart goes out to that town and all of Canada.
Humidity - or, more precisely, the lack thereof. Here in the SE US, winter humidity in the afternoons trends towards 50-ish % rh, give or take. The last several months weāve had more days in the 20 range than in the 50 range.
The last few weeks weāve had a lot of days sub-20. Today is mid-50s but only because it rained all last night and up until about noon today. Tomorrow and the next few days will be mid-teens, more like Boulder than here.
Itās more dry in the house than outside, generally, because of the furnace running. My basement dehumidifier wonāt kick on at less than 30% rh and hasnāt run in weeks.
All this to say that I bought a couple of 24 ounce packages of baby gold potatoes last week, and in my cool pantry theyāve started getting shriveled and squishy in less than 5 days.
Oh well. Iāll bitch when the rh is over 70%, too. Some people you just caināt make happy. 
My retired neighbours are coming over for a board game night in a bit. This is my first time hosting such an evening so Iāve got Scrabble, single malt, glasses which arenāt whisky glasses and homemade Dorset apple cake. I think Glynis is bringing cheese scones 
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Worthy whisky always improves vocabulary and spelling.
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Nice! Do you have an official Scrabble dictionary?
I find the arguments and volume both increase after whiskeyā¦
I used a word once in the early 2000s that Merriam & Webster had accepted circa 1985 (foggy on the date) and my MIL challenged it. The only dictionary in their house was from 1968.
Their anniversary was the following week, so I bought them a new dictionary. And a new jug of Crown Royal, which had been flowing fairly freely the night of the game.
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Dorset apple cake is a killer dessert. Go, medg
(Edit: only had it once - restaurant near Weymouth a year or so back. )
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Thatās quite a vowel movement you have there.
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Iām just here for the lingual puns.
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Well you know, some folks are just cunning linguists.
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Some of my favorite folks, in fact.
She says, tongue-in-ā¦ cheek? 
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Nope. Just using the online one 
- our setup is pretty amateur!
Sip enough of the single malt and no one will care. 
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Sunshine and I have made up our own Scrabble rules. Weāll trade letters, like sheāll need a āTā and Iāll take her spare āRā for my āTā (stuff like that).
When we play we just try to use up all of the letters, the score is secondary.
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Weāve long known players who agree that anyone may exchange a tile matching the blank that has been played, and use the blank for whatever. Then, thereās the lgendary āDouble Scrabbleā where the pot of tiles is two setsā worth, meaning itās possible to play āJAZZā without using a blank, and collect no fewer than 20 points for the two Zs.
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Thatāsā¦ something else.
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