Kind of a random thing, but wanted to share as it makes me smile.
Throughout the height of COVID as my business clung to life by a fingernail (and new debt) I spent a lot of time immersed in woodworking videos, books, and Sawmill Creek. In many ways this kept my mind off of looming bankruptcy and was I think more productive and satisfying than playing video games/etc. I just couldn't focus on reading fiction for example as entertainment... mind would wander to the negative. Woodworking learning kept my mind fully engaged.
At any rate, for a number of months I wasn't doing wood working and my time on the Creek faded. Wife tends to join me on the couch before bed to play on her iPad or read her hobby books. I'm with a keyboard on my lap with the living room TV as my computer reading things.
Occasionally she would glance up and see the screen. Recently, after a while she exclaimed, "Oh, it's the dog and the couple. I haven't seen them for a while." She is referring to Ken Hatch and Jim Koepke's avatars. (Sorry Jim, due to the resolution I don't know if your avatar is actually a couple. But the spouse decided it was a couple, so there it is.)
Anyway, just an aside. And the fact that in my little family the "faces" of folks here on the Creek are more than just pixels on the screen.
Cheers folks, and thanks for all the good conversation.