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Saturday: under 40:00 (2 Google)

I paused the timer to answer my phone and forgot to restart it. I know I started partway into one episode of Stranger Things and finished before it was over.

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It was my mom's birthday today, and I completely neglected to call her. This happened last year too, and I feel awful about it. I remembered to call my dad on his.

So, my mom is a true blue democrat. Her parents were pretty staunch republicans, but they grew up when the North was the Republican stronghold and the South had the Democrats, before the script was flipped. She was born a little late to be a hippie, and I think both my parents were out of the country during a lot of the Civil Rights movement, bu they were socially conscious anyway.

In 2004, my mom got involved with (by which I mean she donated to and got email from) moveon.org, one of the earlier all online political action groups. They put together this ad and raised tons of money, intending to run it during the Super Bowl in 2004.



Obviously, CBS wouldn't touch that ad with a 10-foot pole. So instead, they ran it at halftime on CNN during halftime. I was watching the Super Bowl, and my mom made me change the channel at halftime, just so she could see it.

And that's the story of how I missed the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.