unconventional_units_of_measurement epitome of incomprehensibility I'll need a new headset (mic/earphones) soon. When I grumbled to my father about the cost, he said, "But that's only four bubble teas." I don't know, Dad. I'm afraid it costs *five* bubble teas. 250726 ... raze one of my favourites has to be a half_asleep thought that landed in a recent poem after languishing for a while: "i'm just a puppy throw away from being hamlet." how much distance a puppy throw denotes is a mystery to me. but it *is* an oddly specific unit of measurement. 250726 ... ovenbird As a lifelong reader I often measure time in pages. For example: "When will you be ready to go for a walk?" "Oh, in about five pages." 250906 ... ovenbird I measure the progress of the year’s turning wheel in rainbows. A prism hangs in front of my dining room window and when the sun gets low enough in the sky to sneak under the balcony overhang, it hits the crystal facets, refracts, and throws colour at the walls. Today the sun skimmed close enough to earth on its stroll from east to west to sing with light for the first time this fall. The room will dance with rainbows until spring. 250916 what's it to you? who go blather from