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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 14/06/2025

Will you be coming here to document when it opens? :)

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 11/01/2025

Messages has inexplicably begun to convey my husband's reactions in French. Pourquoi?

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 11/01/2025

I have shelves of well-loved cookbooks. But every once in a while, I tell the LLM what I've got on hand and ask it to suggest a dish or menu. Sometimes I iterate with it, sometimes I look up the recipe in a cookbook if I've got it. FWIW it's never suggested rocks or glue ;)

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 09/01/2025

Over Thanksgiving we stayed with dear friends in both the Palisades and Altadena. Both might have lost the homes in whose guest rooms we were so comfortably ensconced. My heart goes out to them and everyone affected by these devastating fires. Gratitude to the first responders and good Samaritans.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 17/12/2024

How, in 2024, do a female GYN office’s exam rooms not have a hook / hangers for clothing? #smdh

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 14/12/2024

“Proto Pretty” by Wondermints is a perfect pop tune. Listening to it makes me smile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=05m-...

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Wondermints ~ Proto Pretty

YouTube video by eireann0

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 13/12/2024

TFW you thought you’d put your phone on sleep focus before bed but you didn’t, and a text buzzes through to your watch and wakes you up after only 5 hours of sleep. 😵‍💫

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 13/12/2024

Me, furiously closing the several dozen open apps on my phone: how on earth do I have that many apps going? Me, five minutes later: I already have two dozen apps open again.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 10/12/2024

Bemused at marketers frantically sending "Last chance to save!" emails as if consumers aren't well aware they'll have many, many MORE "last chances" to save, with perhaps even better discounts, every week from now until eternity.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 07/12/2024

Husband has declared tonight is the night for our annual rewatch of The Holiday. This is the way.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 11/11/2024

As many times as I’ve been to the park, I don’t believe I’ve ever tried that restaurant. Going on my list for next time!

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 09/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #45,300! Howdy, y'all. I haven't been as active here as on other platforms, but I'm here. Nice to see you.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #45,300, Arlene Wszalek ‪@arlenewszalek.com‬, joined on Apr 27, 2023"

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 22/04/2024

Any Wikipedia editing experts out there? I want to create a full page for someone who's currently only listed as a redirect and I don't know how to edit that. I have the page itself drafted in markup, but want to correctly add it without incurring the wrath of the editing community. @xor.blue? TIA!

A photo of a laptop open to the Wikipedia page about Wikipedia.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Apropos of nothing in particular, but just in case anyone’s wondering - Yes, from the stage, we can pretty much see anyone in the orchestra seats.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 21/08/2023

My dentist made a Shakespeare authorship joke the other day, and was a little *too* impressed when I immediately countered with a Marlowe reference. Dude, you're not the only one in this room who attended college, you know.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 24/07/2023

Nice! My TW, Threads and IG handles are my AOL screen name (@wzzy). My original name here was that too, but I changed to my website to verify.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 24/07/2023

Saw in your post you were at AOL in the mid-90s. I was too (albeit AOL UK). Small world etc.!

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 23/07/2023

We saw them play a daytime side stage at Life Is Beautiful in 2013. They were electrifying. And Alana was thrilled to be in Vegas because it was her first time there since turning 21 :).

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 08/07/2023

You’d think FB wouldn’t suggest as a friend someone with whom you were already friends, but has apparently unfriended you (and the suggestion is how you discover this). But you’d be wrong. Sigh.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 08/07/2023

You 100% should do that. The latest version I’m getting is along the lines of “we’ve had a few slots open up in our schedule next week to discuss how our product / service will jump start your business. Click on the day and time below that works best for you to set up a meeting.” Two words: AS IF

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 08/07/2023

I would ask “are you effing kidding me” except I 100% know you are not. WTF is wrong with people?!

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 05/07/2023

Productivity by way of procrastination - I love it.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 05/07/2023

Because no one else is posting fireworks photos tonight… JKLOL. Here’s mine, of the finale of the Magic Kingdom display, taken from about a mile away.

Finale of the July 4 2023 Magic Kingdom
fireworks display at Walt Disney World, taken from about a mile away.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 04/07/2023

I miss lists, too. Hoping we’ll have them here soon, although completely recognize it’s not the top priority for the dev team.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 03/07/2023

In the dictionary under self-own…

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 03/07/2023

Anyone who works in warm-weather hotels / resorts: what percentage of guests use the pool(s) on an average day?

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 03/07/2023

With a chaser of quivering indignation.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 03/07/2023

I'm here. ::::waves:::: just followed you.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 03/07/2023

On July 2 2009 I was diagnosed with cancer. On July 2 2023 I got to hang out with my 1-year-old granddaughter. I bow down to science, and the experts harnessing it, for saving me 14 years ago. #deepthoughts

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 02/07/2023

Every year on the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis (which is today, but Kadence is closed on Sundays) I do something to replace sad and scary memories of the day with happier ones. Sometimes it’s a thing, but mostly it’s an experience. Like last night :)

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 02/07/2023

For anyone who cares about such things: we had a transcendent meal at Kadence in Orlando tonight. If you have the budget and can snag a ressie (they only have 9 seats), you won’t be disappointed.

Entrance of Kadence restaurant in Orlando, FL.

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 24/06/2023

May we add “let me be clear” to this list?

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 20/06/2023

I didn’t know that. Even better :)

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 19/06/2023

That looks… incredible. What recipe did you use? Asking for a friend…

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 19/06/2023

Well stated. (Although it’s comfortingly reminiscent of Twitter ca. 2010.)

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Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com · 15/06/2023

Jack Lord’s sunglasses in Dr. No are a MOOD.

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