It has occurred to me that I have too many of them. Peeves, that is. I can't take care of all of them as pets. What I really have is a colony of feral peeves. I can try to TNR them but there just keep being more.
Up today: When a product has a built in zipper closure, but it's not sealed adequately to the rest of the bag, so when you try to open the zipper it comes off from the side and you have to end up finding another way to close the bag anyway.
Sometimes, as I'm browsing the internet, I come across someone saying something that is just plain wrong. I don't mean I disagree with them, I mean they are saying false things. Things they could look up and be set right in just moments, but they're not doing that. I'm talking something like identifying Art Nouveau as Art Deco. This is something that, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't matter, but there's a world of difference between the two styles, and it's something that's just so easy to learn!
I want to learn how to not get so frustrated when something is wrong about something, for the sake of my mental well-being.
But I also want to learn how to correct people when they're wrong without seeming smug or combative. Like, how do I do this? How do I be the change, etc.?
In my unending quest to be Different From How I Am[1], one of the things I've been focused on lately is the health of my fingernails. Mine are weak and delaminate at the ends, soaking up water at abnormal rates[2] and breaking their tenuous bonds with themselves.
Anyway, I've gotten much better at caring for my nails in general but still find them weak, so now I am looking at whether I indeed should try a strengthener. I hop on the ol' internet and read some product reviews, as one does.
One review-- and this is the entire reason for this entry -- mentioned initial gains but said it quit working for them. The writer then went on to say that instead they now take collagen powder once a day instead and within TEN DAYS their nails were stronger. Now, I'm no fingernail scientist, but that seems not possible. Unless they have fingernails that grown supernaturally fast, ten days doesn't give them time to make a difference. Ten days is only (on average) about a millimeter of growth, right?[3]
If the reviewer has indeed had their nails grown out long enough in ten days to notice how much stronger they are from using collagen, they really buried the lede. I think lots of people would love to know their secret to this kind of growth!
The reason I am griping about this here instead of just to my family (I still might) is just that they're currently hunkered down due to a hurricane and this seems a little too trivial.
