Pre:

Word went out pretty early from folks who wouldn’t be able to make it for this mornings beating. Spokes is jetting around the country burning down lumberyards to keep his stock options up, and Babyface has been roped into leading a group of some other guys that just couldn’t live without his mumble chatter.

Noting that scheduled Q, Audit, has gone AWOL, YHC asked Master Q, Twin, if there was a sub scheduled. I’m pretty sure that Twin then twirled his mustache and deliberately misinterpreted my question as an offer to take over–fine, but you won’t be happy.

Warmup:

Thang:

The word:

What is most misunderstood about friendships?

Very few people understand that your social relationships can actually change your health. They can change your cardiovascular system, your immune system, how you sleep, your cognitive health. How could this thing that exists entirely outside the body affect whether you’re likely to catch a virus? And yet that’s exactly what we now know that social connection does. We thought of loneliness as this difficult emotion, but just an emotion. And we think of friends as this lovely thing — but it is actually a matter of life and death. And there’s this evolutionary drive to connect. People think all the time about competition and survival of the fittest, but really it’s survival of the friendliest.

Moleskin: