1. How does one start an online casino? Asking for a friend.

2. A trending phrase structure I’ve noticed in the last few weeks is “the _______ of it all.” It’s the new verbing a noun. The I wish I had started it of it all is that I’m coming into it late but it’s totally something I would do and now I feel it’s hack. Like blogs.

3. Is asiago cheese off-brand Parmesean? Parm, but made in the next town over? I know I could look this up on wikipedia and I might later, but as I eat the rest of this wedge, I was just curious.

3. On Friday, Juniper lectured me about waking up when my alarm first goes off. It was a wake up call on wake up calls. And I know she’s right. Got to get that worm!

3.b. Let the record show: we were on time. She was trying to tell me that there’s some other indicator of being on time, and that even though we arrived before the bell and while the principal is still holding the door open and before I have to sign her in, there’s some other way that we’re missing. But I interrupted her to tell her about Mike Birbiglia’s bit about “laties” and because I wasn’t listening, she refused to tell me how to know if we’re on time to school. I may never know, at this point.

3.c. I don’t know what it is; if it’s the shorter days or the cooler weather, or that I’m 40, or that this week and last I was doing heavier labor, but all I want to do is sleep, and sleep in, and sleep early. Sleep early, sleep often. That’s the candidate who gets my vote.

4. I saw on LinkedIn that one of my college professors is job searching. When I was assigned to research my chosen vocation in his senior capstone class, he told me I couldn’t research poetry, as it’s not a viable career. So I researched organic farming. I haven’t been in touch with this professor since graduation to let him know that both farming and poetry have kept me fed in more ways than one.

I was tempted to comment, “time to write a novel.” But is the pot also white-flake-on-black-enamled steel? What business does it have to tell the kettle to steam?

Besides I’m really trying to grow myself up. Besides, I’m painting. And growing weeds. And he’s right, not making money as a poet.

4.b. The Wendell Berry of it all.

4.c. Maybe he and I could start an online casino together?

5. You’re a worm farmer, Harry. Catch.