Hi BBs! By the time this is published, I’ll be on my way up to the Oregon coast to spend a few days in the woods, listening to waves crash and forgetting that things like Twitter and politics exist. I wish I could bring every one of you with me! (In my absence, please don’t forget to lovingly fight about food in the comments below.)
This week, Erin watched Elena Undone, and she has some questions. Well, one question, really.
What kind of world is it where Orphan Black only has three episodes left? Anyway, here’s Valerie Anne’s brilliant recap of episode 507, also known as THE EPISODE WHERE THINGS HAPPENED WITH AN EYEBALL.
This was very sweet and made me think about you and me and the world we live in: Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s The Con, Which Changed Our Lives.
A kid! An egg! A park! They do stuff! Mey chatted with the cast and crew of Danger and Eggs.
Reneice is an actual angel from Heaven and this week, she made a vegan chocolate icebox pie.
My main takeaway from the latest installment of AM/PM is that Fashion Editor Nora has fantastic bangs.
Want to dress like Meg Ryan in the 90’s? Alaina has you covered.
And then there were your comments!
On Kristen Stewart And Stella Maxwell Crashed a Lesbian Wedding and Aunt Linda Was Very Excited:
The Listen, Linda Award to SurelySurly:
On No Filter: Jasika Nicole Just Blue Herself:
The Feelings Parade Award to :) and Sarah:
On “Wynonna Earpwp_postsEpisode 207 Recap: Aphrodite Made Me Do It:
The @ Me Next Time Award to Denise:
On Ranking Carol’s Best Pickup Lines:
The Face that Launched a Thousand ‘Ships Award to Rous Rose:
The Big Enough for Two Award to Lynn:
The Ethics in Lesbian Journalism Award to Sally:
On Concert Recap: Tegan & Sara “The Conwp_postsTour, Webster Hall, November 2007:
The Our Chart Award to aj:
On Style Thief: Meg Ryan from the 1990s:
The Gay Nineties Award to Caitlin:
On “Orphan Blackwp_postsEpisode 507 Recap: Eye of the Storm:
The Who Killed Jenny? Award to Rous Rose:
See a funny or amazing comment that needs to be here? E-mail me at queergirlblogs [at] gmail [dot] com!
Thank you for calling my recap brilliant. These awards are brilliant. Have a brilliant weekend. <3
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When the Comment Awards have more comments than the Friday Open Thread…
LOL! is it a race again this week Sally?
We’re slacking this week!!!
Our fearless leader is away so we slack. That’s ok. We will get them in August
#AugustGoals
122 X 150
Not bad
At first I thought you were counting how many awards you got. I bet it’s a lot.
But yeah, I am on for the race. Gonna stretch my hands and fingers real quick.
My nineties nostalgia has been seen!
The 90s were the best
#OlderStraddle represent
We were young and wore combat boots and danced to ace of base
*whispers* Queer Girl is away???
C’mon everyone, we have to make sure she’ll be happy when she gets back to us. As happy as having the fullest-fat yogurt instead of milk on cereal for breakfast!!
….omg is your name said like snail? Are you a snail? Do you carry a house with you wherever you go? Are you prepared to camp at all opportunities? How did I never read your name outloud before??
@thecirrhosismachine Yes! It’s a play on my name (Gaëlle), English people calling French snails (or frogs…), and on the fact I just love them (as friends, not food.
Ok well maybe not friends, but friendly acquaintances). My wife is the moon (I first knew her as Artemis), so we sign lots of notes with a moon and snail _@//***O
Adorable!
That is so cute! I have a lot of respect for snails. Theyre so mobile. Theyre like the scouts of the animal world.
Thank you for asking this Gilbert, because I’ve been pronouncing it “snail” in my head and wondering if I should ask. (As a person whose name is always pronounced wrong, these are things I think about)
please clarify your name pronunciation immediately!
Yeah, I am suddenly confused
Please clarify
Thank you in advance
It’s like the name Sean, and then -dra. **NOT** LIKE JACKIE CHAN
*ahem*
:)
Oh thank goodness, I’ve been pronouncing your name correctly.
Uh oh
Don’t tell me that Queer girl also eats cereal with yogurt instead of milk. I did not know that. I do the same thing
If she has functioning tastebuds she does, because there is no better option for cereal.
Especially granola
I like the kind with pieces of strawberry and of chocolate
@chandra YES!! You are my high-fat-content bestie. Cream forever!!!
Also, clotted cream icecream is THE BEST.
Hi-fat hi-five, woop!
Does this work for cereal that isn’t granola? Also, plain yogurt or vanilla? Greek yogurt or regular?
Greek yogurt, the higher fat the better. Plain with maple syrup. I haven’t tried it with non-granola cereals but I think you should experiment and report back.
I’ve only tried it with granola and regular store brand yogurt, so was curious. I might try this out because I don’t actually like milk (or soy milk, or almond milk, or anything resembling milk), but I have it on cereal because it’s necessary. Although I did just buy a new carton of milk, so maybe in a few weeks lol!
I enjoy it with Frosted Flakes but granola is better.
Also plain regular yogurt. No Greek for me
Okay friends, I just ate a Hawaiian pizza, bite me.
GILBERT!
Not a big fan of ham on pizza. Prefer pepperoni, bacon, and pineapple!
Pepperoni and pineapple is a really good combo!
It is! Even more so with yummy yummy bacons ?
Bacon makes everything better :D
Woah. Ive never heard of pineapple on a pizza thats not ham and pineapple. Im feeling a lot less cocky now. I thought it was just like gammon and pineapple on a pizza. This changes everything.
Oh yea pineapple on pizza is VERY real and very yummy
Panago veggie korma pizza with coconut curry sauce and veggies and pineapple ?
wait wait wait chandra tell me more
@carules In addition to the pineapple it comes with roasted garlic, baby spinach, green peppers, banana peppers (which I usually switch out for mushrooms because they don’t like me) and two kinds of cheese, and it is delicious and now I’m craving one. I think Panago might only be in Canada though…
@jajs and i have already been talking about how the autostraddle commune should be in canada, so this is just all the more reason
I am totally on board with this idea and will do everything within my Canadian power to help.
One of us! One of us!
I am loving the double meaning of “Gay Nineties” <3
Should I bake brownies or a cake today?
Caitlin with a “C” votes for brownies.
BROWNIES.
Oooh defs brownies. Unless you had a particularly exciting cake planned. Any plans for what to put in the brownies? I made white chocolate and raspberry ones once and I still think of them three years later.
Brownies it is then! Thinking of adding some chocolate syrup so they are really moist (insert immature joke about eating wet things here), white chocolate chips, and crushed walnuts
I really want brownies now. Also, pizza. Is it lunch time yet???
It’s 12:48pm here so go for it!
It’s FINALLY noon here, although I brought in my lunch, so pizza and brownies will have to wait…. :(
*pout*
@katpocalypsemeow wet chocolately brownies with walnuts sound ideal. I prefer brownies gooey over just moist.
With caramel filling Please?
How about fudge filling and Carmel drizzle?
i’ve considered it, and @chandra is right. these comments have been too harmonious. so i’m gonna honor my feelings and the need for food opinion discord in the comment awards comments:
walnuts are an abomination. why would you wanna ruin perfectly good brownies like that! put some chocolate chips in them and call it a day.
AGREED. Walnuts have their place and all (i.e. in carrot cake) but DOWN WITH WALNUTS IN BROWNIES
nuts in carrot cake are fine but why use walnuts when pecans are clearly superior in all ways? walnuts just taste like disappointment.
What about walnuts in the frosting on a frosted brownie?? But otherwise, no walnuts IN my brownies. Actually, I don’t even like chocolate chips in brownies because it’s just too much.
“walnuts just taste like disappointment.”
Yesssssss! I’m going to use this the next time someone asks me why I don’t like walnuts.
Ah, but maybe you have never had actual fresh walnuts! I used to think I didn’t like them either but most of the ones sold in stores are shrivelled and dusty and stale. Same goes for dates.
I support the “no walnuts in my brownie” movement
There used to be a walnut tree in my parent’s backyard. Doesn’t get much more fresh than that! I’ll eat them, they’re just very low on my enjoyable nut list.
gonna need to hear more about your enjoyable nut list, please
@carules Top of the enjoyable nut list are almonds and cashews, followed by pistachios and peanuts. Hazelnuts don’t rank very high for me, either, but they’re still better than walnuts.
Hahaha, you ladies are so silly! Walnuts are yummy and great for brownies. The ones I ended up making had walnuts and white chocolate chips with fudge filling and Carmel drizzed on top. The Carmel didn’t come out right tho, ended up being more like hard candy once it cooled ?
Were really yummy tho!
Are they “special” brownies? Or just plain regular brownies?
Regular, not a fan of “special” brownies
In that case I’m going to be a contrarian and say cake
Frosted brownies would be the best of both worlds.
LOL! I love you Carmen =D
What about a carmel drizzle?
Let us eat cake!
Let’s have our cake and eat it too!
Of course we’ll eat cake if we have it, that is literally the ENTIRE point of having cake!
Yes to caramel drizzle; yes to having our cake and eating it too; yes to alllllll the cakey goodness!
Cake is good! It’s joy! It exists for milestones and occasions! Let us eat cake!
Today we will eat brownies! Next week cake!
Yes! A dessert each week to go with the comment awards – I approve of that plan.
I’ll second the cake sentiment
I saw a recipe the other day for a Cherry and Almond cake made with a gooey fresh cherry coulis soaking into the centre of the cake.
Must find that site again. I might put a bit of cherry brandy in the sauce when I make it. If I can find that site……..
Brownies always! But so far most of these comments are far too harmonious.
ummmm por que no los dos
Claro que es la solucion ideal!
Dos veces los dos!
Thank you for the awards, Queer Girl! Have a fantastic trip!
Have a safe trip and come back to us in one piece, Queer girl. Hope you’re running into a ton of attractive lesbians in Oregon
WOO WON ANOTHER COMMENT AWARD!
I am also gonna use this “hi i guess not bye” from now ON. it’s a phrase that definitely skirts around the issue of getting rejected by attractive humans! let’s just all start rejecting ourselves and we’ll be fine.
Great week for you, dating Celine Dion and winning comment awards.
And I just realized that I have been singing the lyrics to “my heart will go on” wrong for the past 20 years
Now you have to tell us how you were singing them
“You are safe in my heart and my heart will go on and on”
I’ve been singing SAVING my heart all this time
It’s a perfect pick up line really. It immediately spurs a “wait, come back!” reaction.
If everyone dressed like a lesbian in the 90’s, and today we can’t tell who’s queer and who’s just a hipster, does that make the 00’s the magical heteronormative era when lesbians were lesbians damnit?
For those brief years when flannel wasn’t fashionable, yes. But the 00’s were also the period when straight men started dressing like hip gay men.
I couldn’t stand that Metrosexual crap. I blame David Beckham and Ryan Seacrest for it
I blame Ryan Seacrest for a lot of things.
He is just alright for me, dawg
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6auigYXgQQ
So relevant
I must have missed that. I was omg-I-liked-a-boy-that-means-I’m-not-a-lesbian straight in the 00’s, but I was also a metalhead so all the men I spent time with dressed like a very different era of gay men. ?
You’re lucky you missed out! Although a big factor was the show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in the US, so maybe it wasn’t as popular in Europe? And it was only a fad for a few years. Though skinny jeans didn’t go anywhere…
I don’t know if it wasn’t that big a fad in Europe or if the circles I moved in just weren’t affected. Pretty much all the men I knew then are the same men I know now – big on shampoo and conditioner, not so big on fragrances and skincare, big on tattoos, not so big on polished looks… a bit less into spikes and leather these days, though, and a bit more into intersectional feminism, tea parties and baby wearing. Toto, I don’t think we’re in our 20’s anymore.
I have to admit, seeing my best friend’s muscled, tattooed, shaved head husband wearing their baby brought a smile to my face. And yes, we are definitely somewhere over the rainbow.
“Ethics in Lesbian Journalism Award” is some of your best work yet. Kudos to you QG
Aren’t tater tots just a type of French fry? I have posed this question to friends but nobody agrees with me. They’re fried potatoes cut up in a different way just like any other French-fry variation (crinkly, curly steak, shoestring, etc.). Why do tater tots get their own category?
I disagree! They are a type of hash brown! #hashbrowninaball
OMG are we in sync today or what?
*high fives Caitlin!* Go C/Kaitlins! =^.^=
Yes!! High five back at ya!
I consider tater tots bite-sized hash browns.
They are! They can’t be fries because fries are a single piece of potato where as hash browns and tater tots are made of shredded potato made into a whole.
Good point about the single unit versus several units. I stand corrected
I was gonna say that i thought tater tots were what we call potato croquettes but are they really shredded potato? Croquettrs are smooth inside like whatever type of potato is in a smiley face. Damn, smiley faces are one of my favourite ways to consume potatoes.
Yeah, it’s an American thing.
It took me a while to get it when I moved here like peanut butter, s’mores and funnel cake
@thecirrhosismachine Tater tots have obvious pieces of potato in them and really are like tiny hash browns in a ball. Not like smiley faces at all. I preferred potato waffles to smiley faces when I lived in the UK :)
Omg the day i was shown how to cook potato waffles in the toaster was the best of days. It’s a warm breakfast without the washing up.
No one told me you could toaster cook potato waffles!!! If I knew that I would have eaten them every damn day!
When I make French toast I fry extra slices and put them in the fridge, and then I pop them in the toaster the next morning and it’s the best.
Chandra, you’re a genius!
Superb use of a gif Chandra
I have no opinion on the status of tater tots but I’d like to officially go on record stating that French fries should be eaten with a fork.
I’m 50/50 on that, because it depends on how long you want your fries to last. Also on the type of fry.
If they have toppings, yes.
Like Outback Steakhouse’s Aussie Cheese Fries
One does not simply pick up a cheese fry…
One absolutely does pick up a cheese fry! Unless you just got your nail done of course
Oh no! The C/Kaitlins don’t agree! *Shocked emoji face* And we were doing so well up to this point.
I’m gonna say you can pick up a cheese fry as low as its not entirely covered in cheese.
If it’s surface is covered in cheese then you’ll need a fork. It’s time consuming to be picking up/putting down the fork so you might as well eat the whole thing with a fork.
We can easily fix that Caitlin, just eat cheese fries with your fingers! =p
I’m with Carmen SanDiego on this one: I’ll use my fingers as long as the fry isn’t totally covered. I have my standards :P
So like an idiot, I didn’t read any comments and just texted Queergirl saying “Holy crap, 110 comments! Well done!”
So I’m suuuuuuuper sorry if I ruined the surprise :(
Ask her if her refrigerator is running!!
Whenever I see a post with a unusually high comment count, and it’s not a biphobic flame war, lost MRA trolls, or Christo-fascist dancing hotdogs, I assume I’ve accidentally clicked on a post from 2011, from the glory days before Facebook destroyed comment culture across the internet.
I’m beyond delighted that in this case it’s because of, amongst other things, detailed analysis of the constitution of processed potato products and apparatus for eating.
I do think there’s more scope for discourse about correct
condimentation for chips/fries.
Ketchup or mayo? And/or cheese? Probably butter if you’re Chandra? For me the dilemma is always: gravy or curry sauce.
Gravy on fries is an abomination. Fries should *never* be soggy. (shudder)
Yes!! Why on earth would anyone go to the trouble of making perfectly Chrispy real chips and then ” go the sogg” and dump wet stuff all over them????!
Because then you get the crispy ends with the condiment-drenched middles and it’s a delightful contrast!
O.K. You Do You and all that but Nah!
BUTTER on FRIES, what kind of MONSTER do you take me for?!?! (Ok, fair enough based on my established butter proclivities, but no.)
Malt vinegar all the way.
…Although a good veggie poutine with mushroom gravy and cheese curds can sometimes hit the spot too. Mmm
Something I learned this past A-Camp: Cheese curds are overrated
In general yes but have you had them on fries with gravy on top?
I really enjoy cheese fries, preferably with bacon on top. Never had it with gravy. I will try it next time I see it and will toast to your health
Cheers! (Does that make it a cheese toast?)
Make sure the gravy goes ON TOP though – then it melts the curds. Very important. Preferably in Quebec City too, if you can make that work.
I never got used to curry sauce, though I only tried it once. I vote gravy. But BBQ sauce on fries is the absolute best.
yes! BBQ sauce forever. gravy is also good. curry i’ve never done but would try. ketchup is acceptable as a last resort.
any other heathens around who enjoy the whole french fries + (ice cream) milkshake thing?
You know, I’m going to have to try the french fry and milkshake thing because I know a lot of people who like it.
…What
salty sweet! like when i go to the movies, i need popcorn AND peanut m&ms. try it before you knock it tyvm. i was outraged over it when a friend first showed me long ago when i was like 10, but then i learned that it was delicious.
Do you ever put your M&M’s IN your popcorn? I’ve seen people do that on TV but I wasn’t sure if that was an actual thing.
Ok, you mean dipping French fries in a milkshake. Not a milkshake made of French fries. We can still be friends.
Would a milkshake made of french fries be mashed potatoes?
There was a reality show that made this a task. They would ask you what your favourite food was and make a milkshake out of it.
I stopped watching when the guy that had to drink the sushi milkshake puked….
nooo, that’s movie magic nonsense. cgi m&ms i’m pretty sure.
wow no @chandra what sort of terrible person did you think i am. i will be more specific in the future. we were talking about dipping sauces, tho!
@iskout I was picturing something like runny mashed potatoes blended with ice cream. *barf*
@carules True, but it was the phrasing that threw me off. It looked like a mathematical milkshake equation.
…i mean, really, tho, you make mashed potatoes with milk to begin with, so maybe ice cream mashed potatoes would be fine.
Noooooooooooooooooo
It would probably just make the potatoes sweet. Who knows, you may have just stumbled across the next big thing.
depends on the ice cream! if it’s store bought, sure, but i was imagining homemade, i think.
(anyone else ever take ridiculous hypothetical situations and just run with them? wait i’m on autostraddle so of course so? okay cool.)
No no no, I’ve created a monster
tho also like, it’s the height of fancy chocolate to have a little sea salt in it, so maybe a little sweet in normally salty potatoes would be fine. maybe it WOULD be the next big thing.
it’s ok chandra i was always a monster
I totally agree! I mean, if you don’t think about ice cream as a frozen sweet treat, the basics are just cream, sugar and egg (egg whites? I dunno, I’ve never made ice cream). It’s completely doable!
I meant the milkshake is the monster, but I will strongly side-eye anyone who tries this and doesn’t immediately throw up
so not exactly the same thing but turns out making ice cream using potatoes is a viable (and vegan) life choice:
http://magicvalley.com/entertainment/cool-off-with-potato-ice-cream-recipe/article_81dea14d-97fc-5a0b-9042-63b91b5631d2.html
THIS one tho
https://idahopotato.com/recipes/potato-ice-cream
That’s a whole different thing. I’d try that. It’s all about texture.
I dip my fries in my sundae at McDonalds. It always cracked my grandma up.
Team Garlic fries!
OH nononononono no garlic fries for me. Unless it’s very light on the garlic.
Garlic parmesan fries with truffle oil. Yep.
Oh yeah
To my continued delight, a bar nearby serves what they claim to be “French poutine”, with confit duck, fries, gravy, mushrooms & gruyère. It’s pretty heavenly. ^_^
There’s all kinds of yummy things to go on/with fries! BBQ sauce, gravy, cheese, chilli, bacons, dipping in milkshakes, garlic parmesan seasoning, what ever is in Red Robin’s seasoning. And don’t forget about sweet potato fries! Love those sooooo much!
Sweet potato fries are the best
I was so proud of myself yesterday for not spending half the day getting sucked into Comment Award comments, and now look
Mommi will be so proud
We miss you @queergirl
Although I may be using mommi wrong again.
I don’t think I will ever fully understand “mommi”.
Only 14 more comments to go until we break 200! QG’s welcome home gift will be that she has to sit down and read all of them.
Mommi is still a tricky concept for me.
I hear that there’s a mommi Tshirt on the works so hopefully that will be explained again
ya i don’t think she is mommi, tho maybe that’s not for me to say. when she gets back she can let us know how she self-identifies.
I too struggle with Mommi. Every time I see it all I can think off is bdsm and how some people call their Domme Mommy in the same vain that some people say Daddy.
The potato ice cream conversation is not okay. I am now walking away from the internet to recover.
i take none of it back, but don’t leave us!
Ha! That made me laugh. But did not take away the lingering disgust at the thought of potato ice cream.
What about potato vodka? Would that make you feel better?
there was vodka in the potato ice cream recipe i linked; maybe that would do the trick?
ARE YOU VEGANPHOBIC
Yes. Yes, I am. And I say that as a long-time vegetarian. We shouldn’t mess with the sanctity of dessert.
What about sweet potato ice cream???
I once had homemade raw garlic ice cream. It was surprisingly delicious.
avocado ice cream
I have had garlic ice cream before and it’s surprisingly good. Garlic wine on the other hand is disgusting
@carules I’ve had avocado chocolate mousse before. It was…. different.
@iskout i would totally try that. the ice cream was good.
also: beet brownies.
What if someone gave you some frozen dessert, and you tried it and it was really good, and then they told you it had potatoes in it
What then
Then I would stand corrected. But also, I probably wouldn’t believe it until I’d seen proof.
that’s a strong answer ngl. i’ve had some pretty fucking good vegan chocolate cake before, tho.
I don’t mind other people being vegan or whatever. In fact, the fewer people I have to share my non-vegan desserts with the better.
But I will continue to judge non-delicious desserts.
I’ll share my non-vegan dessert with you :) We non-vegan gotta stick together! Ever had matcha ice cream from Japan? Sooooooo yummy!
We miss you QueerGirl, please come back to us! We are sorry for whatever we did that drove you away
Anyone here play tabletop games like Battletech or Warhammer 40k? Am seriously considering trying Warhammer 40k, specifically the Slaanesh daemonette’s.
How about a 401k? You should open one if you’re US based and don’t already have one
LMFAO! Oh Carmen, what are we going to do with you =D
Aw, Dr. VOODOO disappeared. Never forget.
A moment of silence for Dr VOODOO herbal urologist
Awwwww, while it was a little annoying that some guy was hocking dick enlarging stuff here the comments that followed were awesome!
Also I propose that Caitlin officially change her name to Dr. Caitlin VOODOO PhD. Show of hands if you agree! *raises both my paws!*
To continue the conversation Carmen asked why we were talking about penises here and I replied “What if we are talking about funny looking penises we have seen? Or how stupid the beings attached to them are? Personally I like penises just not what they are attached to.” Discuss!
i saw a review on oh joy sex toy of dildos shaped like male porn stars dicks, and it kinda really creeped me out. way too much realism, plz stop.
What if they weren’t shaped like human dicks, like they sell at Bad Dragon, would they still creep you out?
Like the Babadook one ?
like, dildos are fine, and dicks attached to people are fine, but dildos specifically shaped after a particular person’s dick, especially when said person is a famous stranger, nope i’m sorry i think that’s weird.
babadong is hilarious and i love it and it needs to stay far away from me
Not like the Babadong! That thing creeps me out… But yea I can understand why you might find the pornstar dildos creepy
Caitlin for sure gets to keep her title!
Let’s be sure not to lump all penis-having people into the same category tho. (I think what Carmen asked was why the esteemed Dr. V was talking about penises at their workplace, which is a valid question)
That is correct. I was asking Dr VOODOO’s patient why the people in his office were discussing penis size as that doesn’t seem like an appropriate conversation topic for a place of business. I also suggested Dr VOODOO’s patient to go to human resources
Judging by that post I’m pretty sure his job IS to talk about penises, that’s why I thought she was talking about us lol
I leave for 2 hours and I miss all the things!! LOL!!
Dr Caitlin VOODOO Ph.D.!
BOOM!
YESSSS
*throws my paws up and cheers in excitment!!* YES!! SHE CHANGED HER NAME TO DR. CAITLIN VOODOO PHD!! AUNT LINDA IS EXTREMELY EXCITED!! XD
Aunt Linda level excitement?? I am touched! You like me, you really really like me *tears of joy*
Move over, Jodie Whittaker
Yes, yes we do
My loves! Lights of my life! I came home tonight to 238 comments on the Comment Awards. You are all perfect and amazing and I literally can’t believe it.
We all missed you!!!
Hope you had a fantastic time – we tried to make you proud *wink*.
Yay! You’re back safe and sound!
WELCOME BACK WE MISSED YOU <3
DID YOU READ ALL 238 COMMENTS
I DID I DID I DID READ THEM ALL
So what’s your take on tater tots?
Tater tots are just disappointing bullet-shaped things that I wish were latkes!
Welcome back! I hope you had a great little vacation! I think we outdid ourselves while you were away. So much so that my home computer wouldn’t open this page lol!