@sbi

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I'm the Grumpy Old Ape, father of many, reader of books, writer of C++, doing 24/7 software that keeps your lights on. [he/him]

*one of my grown-up children looks at the poster they just helped me to hang*

"Why do you even have this poster, dad?"
"Why, I bought it."
"πŸ™„"
"I bought it to hang it here, obviously."

*grown-up looks at poster again*

"You deliberately bought this… thing to hang it _into your home_??"
"Yes?"

*awkward pause*

"You're a very strange person, dad."
"I really appreciate you saying that."
"πŸ™„"

I suppose any Sicilians present would have been mortally offended by me making the spaccatelle too short, and eating them with the entirely wrong kind of sauce. But it was the first solid food I dared to eat after a jaw surgery and I couldn't have managed longer noodles yet, and it was fun to make noodles from scratch and improvise a sauce from whatever I found in my fridge to be made in the new small pan that had just arrived.
Guess what in about to have done to me. 🀐
Summertime.