A bunch of randos on the 'net won’t be able to tell you any better than she can. If she says she’s fine reaffirm your friendship and tell her you’re there if she needs to talk and otherwise carry on. Not much else you can do without jeopardizing the friendship.

A textbook example, yes. And Today I Learned something!

For work I use a database written in COBOL. Reports are simultaneously running and frozen until I either get the report results or sufficient time has passed that I’m certain the system has crashed.

If we’re going to play that game, puffins are technically auks since they’re also in the same family.

Also where I’m from we call those razorbills.

No, I’m not fun at parties.

This post made me think about Cooking Comically for the first time in about a decade.