It's not so bad being trendy everyone who looks like me is my friend

Well that's alarming. One of the folks in our neighborhood said a camera on their back porch caught a bear walking by. Their back porch faces kiddo's bus stop, where she waits in the dark in the mornings. I believe it because I found several articles and video of other bears in the area, wandering around in broad daylight in the city, and others talking about the general comeback of black bears across northern Michigan in the last decade. I think the new plan is for Josh to drive her the few hundred feet down there and wait with her. In general I find that parental behavior ridiculous, but I had never ever considered BEARS.

Welp, Duolingo finally drove me away completely. I stopped paying them after they forced me onto the path system, and they keep making little things worse. The new forced review lesson sets for certain languages if I hadn't visited in a little bit (that I couldn't skip because of the path) were not usefully scaled, relevant, or usually needed. But the final straw was that I was so anxious and frustrated during my first day with the new energy system on Friday. I decided it's not worth it at all any more. I have enough anxiety and enough time-sucks that I don't need this app in both categories. So now they won't get my ad revenue either. So long, money chickens.*

* A regular ad I get is for an app I think called "Township" and it's just 3 chickens and a couple piles of money on the screen...don't know, don't care.