- DH seems to have settled into new regular eating patterns.
- Finger-crossed, but he hasn’t had another attack yet.
- He’s settled into the heuristic that if it has about the same amount of fat as a Triscuit he can just have it. If there’s more then he might taste it but not have any more, and then maybe fill up on fiber like vegetables. He’s no longer worrying much about sugar or refined carbs, though I think only one bag of pretzels has been eaten this entire time (pretzel chips that he shared with DC2 over the course of a week). Still, sugar consumption is down because so much comes bundled with fat. Cracker consumption is up.
- The grocery bill over the summer went way up– I’m not sure how much of that was a second hungry teenager and how much of that was DH’s increased produce eating, and how much of that was our decreased amount of eating out (since it’s harder to control fat in restaurant meals). I guess we’ll find out when DC1 goes off to Japan.
- I’m really missing convenience meals. DH can’t just have grilled cheese or frozen pizza anymore. We can have homemade pizza, but with lowfat cheese which just isn’t as good.
- But– we have a LOT more produce and, importantly, it doesn’t go bad if I don’t make an effort to eat it all. It’s mostly gone by Saturday whether I have any or not. This is nice because it means we have a large variety of produce and there’s usually some for me to take for lunch that’s in good shape. And there’s always something out at room temperature. Baby peppers are now on our weekly list whereas they used to die a sad death only partly finished a couple weeks after purchase. We’re also cranking through carrots which means we can buy the nice young ones with tops. And celery hasn’t had a chance to get yellow. We already ate a lot of fresh fruit, but now we’ve been getting more and we haven’t had a strawberry go bad since the change. (Although also the strawberries have been tasting good this summer, so…)
- That said, DH isn’t eating avocados which means if I don’t keep on top of that, they’ll go bad before I get to them which is always sad. But avocado toast with everything but the bagel seasoning is a heavenly breakfast. Oddly nobody has been eating salads except me, so I’ve been having to keep my eye on that.
- We’ve been having some fun getting (and eating) more pickled canned options. Like jalapeño carrots or red onions or baby asparagus. They’ve also been getting finished instead of sitting in our refrigerator forever.
- I have been slowly gaining weight since this started, despite us having more healthy food around. I think the reason is two-fold: 1. low fat isn’t actually a very good diet for me given my PCOS (so on average I’m hungrier) and 2. With higher fat stuff, I used to be able to give DH any of my excess when I was done, or I’d share with him and now I don’t so either I finish it up or I have it for a snack later instead of something healthier. When DC1 goes back to college we will probably buy less ice cream and that should help.
- This Tenderheart cookbook by Hetty Lui McKinnon has been amazing so far (Amazon sponsored link, but definitely buy from a local bookstore if that’s an option). It is vegetarian with vegan options for all of the recipes (or almost all– I haven’t seen any that didn’t have a vegan option yet) and everything has been amazing. It leans east Asian, so we’ve been getting use out of pantry items like dark soy sauce that we had to buy for our last foray into quick and easy Chinese cooking. It is highly reminiscent of an Ottolenghi cookbook, but less emphasis on middle eastern food and so far none of the recipes have taken forever or been that complicated. But they’re delicious and healthy and special– each one takes it up a notch in terms of flavor. And so far they’ve mostly been weekday recipes, though slicing and frying tofu can take a while, and sometimes something will spend a while in the oven. So mostly not make when you’re starving but start an hour before dinner kinds of things.
- I’ve started skipping recipes in our New American cookbooks (Simple, Cook’s Country) that look too high fat, which is probably good for our health because they generally don’t have other redeeming qualities and nobody needs that much cream. I suppose I’d already been skipping things that aren’t really aligned with modern tastes (liver, savory gelatins, sardines…) so it’s not really a huge change. And with Cook’s Country we already don’t do all the recipes, I’m just skipping ones that people had already picked out to make. It’s not like there’s any benefits to deep fat frying other than deliciousness. But it’s best not to focus on what we can’t have, and better to focus on the new things we’ve been trying.
- it is amazing how much more non-fat/non-sugar flavor there is available compared to the low fat fads of the 90s and early 2000s. Spice and vinegar and other fermentation are available in grocery stores to an extent they were not back then.
- We’ve been eating tacos more often. And spaghetti with chicken or shrimp instead of ground beef. And rice bowls (anything is delicious when you add a fried egg, rice, and gochujang). And we’ve started using more jarred sauces from the pantry instead of just waiting until they’ve expired or almost expired when I do my pantry sweep in January. Dolmas still seem to be ok for DH. He’s also started eating a lot of hummus– like 1.5 to 2 containers per week, mostly with raw veggies.
- I’m glad we live in a world of fresh produce year round. I hope that doesn’t change.
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RBOLowfat Gallbladder diet update
July 30, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieRBOMoney
July 28, 2025 — nicoleandmaggie- DH got a note from USPS saying he owed $10 on a package before they could deliver it to him. It says it is from veho, but that’s just a shipping company. No other information. He was home, so I’m not really sure why they didn’t ring the doorbell.
- When I had that back problem, I went and got a massage. I paid $80 because some of it was covered by insurance. (Not much, but some.) After I got back to my office, I got a phone call from the same number I’d called to make the appointment saying they were from the massage place and my credit card hadn’t made it through, could they get it again. I gave it to them again.
- My next credit card statement had four new charges after that, each with increasing amounts, for a total of $540.
- I called the massage place and they were like, nah man, we only have the first charge listed.
- So they took the dates and amounts for the fraudulent charges and I called my credit card company and now have a new one coming in the mail, hopefully before I leave for a conference, but if not my other credit card will get a workout. I don’t like not having backup, but what can you do?
- I did not get my credit card before the conference.
- I think the travel curse may just be ME. This time I went through the entire procedure of booking my hotel and must not have pressed the last button and then didn’t notice I hadn’t gotten a confirmation because I’d gotten so many confirmations for my Seattle trip it just didn’t cross my mind. Stupid. So when I got to the hotel they were like… we don’t have your name here. It ended up costing an additional $1K. Which I may have to pay out of pocket because it’s well over the government standard rate and it isn’t a conference rate and it didn’t get preapproved.
- Because I was using my secondary credit card, of course it got refused when I tried to pay for the hotel. So on top of the embarrassment of not having a reservation, I had to stand there while on the phone with the credit card company approving charges. I thought about calling them and telling them I was traveling before I left but then just didn’t. Fortunately there wasn’t a line.
- Turns out the massage place had put my credit card number and information in someone else’s account. All the charges got reversed.
- It took a LOT of calls (2) and visits (4) to the admin offices at my university, but we finally got DC1’s tuition paid AND got refunded to the in-state tuition amount. Imagine lots of incomplete and conflicting information, not being told that an office had declined to process a form because even though DC1 got it in on time, they didn’t get to it on time and they couldn’t transfer it over to the new office, filling out the same form multiple times sometimes with slight changes, getting rejected from another office because you didn’t know you could apply to them until after their deadline (though you shouldn’t have HAD to because DC1 is actually in-state!), and on and on and on. In the end it turns out I had to pay the full amount so they could refund me– they were not set up to correct the charged amount (though it took yet another visit to get this information, and they sent me to the wrong place to submit a check, but fortunately the wrong place wasn’t busy and was able to walk me over to the right place and tell me who to write the check to since it wasn’t in the posted instructions or online). So I wrote a check and then they refunded me $6K+, which ended up being a transfer from my main bank account to my small bank account because I didn’t have 8K in the small account and it would have taken too much time to add my main account to their system. Everyone at the registrars office knew DC1’s name by the time we got it sorted out. And they refunded the money relatively quickly after my check cleared.
- All of these concerns seem so petty when DH’s relative is facing potential financial destruction from being arrested and its sequelae. More on that when we know more on that.
Soliciting more Ask The Grumpies!
July 25, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieAsk the Grumpies is a feature we run almost every Friday. You ask, we answer, or we punt and ask the grumpy nation to answer. In any case, you get the benefit of not only our wisdom but the collective wisdom of the far wiser grumpy nation.
What questions do you have for us? What can we bring clarity or further confusion to? What can the grumpy nation ponder and discuss on your behalf? Ask in the comments below or email us at grumpyrumblings at gmail dot com.
p.s. You can ask the grumpies a question at any time, not during these annual-ish question drives, but without these drives we wouldn’t be able to run Ask the Grumpies every week.
Rambling memories
July 23, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieI’m at the age where I start rambling about my youth (and also where I grumble about my current health!)
My library recently purchased a copy of The Celestine Prophecy, which is bizarre because it’s from the early 1990s and not very good (though it was on the best seller list, apparently). IIRC, it’s basically a version of “the Secret” but like, in a novel format. Or maybe autobiography (I remember my friend saying it was autobiographical, but wikipedia says nope, fiction!)
One of my crazier friends in college was REALLY into The Celestine Prophecy. She was beautiful and popular and very spacey. The kind of person strangers would give their numbers to whenever we all went out. She also gave me the silent treatment for three months and we stopped being friends by junior year and moved on to other groups and then like 15 years later she emailed me out of the blue with kind of an insane apology and also she had (divorced and remarried and) moved to a nearby city and I should visit her. Which I replied to politely and then deleted. (I guess before then she invited me to her first wedding in France but I was in graduate school and couldn’t afford to go even if I’d wanted to– we sent her a present, a fancy picnic backpack that we’d somehow gotten two copies of for our wedding and had never opened, with our polite regrets though. I do not remember if I invited her to my wedding– we probably did since I invited other people from that group and it would have been impolite to leave her out– but regardless she didn’t attend and we’d asked for no gifts.) Because after I had kids, I stopped entertaining crazy friends. Also part of the reason for the rift was possibly because prior to the silent treatment I’d realized how incredibly selfish and how much of a taker she was and became a bit less of a doormat, or maybe she found me overly controlling (also likely), or who knows. I don’t try to fix people anymore and never should have to begin with.
Anyhow, thinking about The Celestine Prophecy…
One of my high school roommates (pre #2) dated a guy in high school and he went to Emory a year before she did and then she followed him there… and found out he’d been cheating on her for months. And she could have gone to a different school if he’d just been open and honest about it when he started cheating. She was wrecked.
So I asked everyone on my freshman hall to help me put together a care package for her and they did. I asked each of them to put something in to help cheer her up, or that made them happy. And the one friend put a copy of the Celestine Prophecy in there. (High school roommate was Wiccan, so I don’t know if that meshes or the opposite with Celestine prophecy, but it’s the thought that counts.) I don’t actually know what most people put in there– there were sealed things for this stranger they didn’t know, not for me, and of course I don’t remember anything specific that I did see. But my friend got it and said they were all great and helpful. It was nice of everyone to help a stranger like that.
Former high school roommate transferred to the state flagship and is now an obstetrician, which is cool. She got married to another guy who I liked much better, but sadly I couldn’t attend that wedding (on a cruise) because 1. no money and 2. that was literally the job market conference week and I would not have been able to do conference interviews if I’d gone, meaning I could not have gotten an academic job that year, period.
Anyhow, not sure what my point is. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack for Company and trying to make sense of it again… why is it powerful in my middle age? What is the message, really? And I guess relationships are complicated and people are weird and kind and wonderful and mundane and sometimes terrible. But we keep on moving forward, making connections, losing connections, just being alive.
Finally fixed the patio screens
July 21, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieI don’t know if you recall but for a while we had 8 cats, including a mama cat and her FIVE kittens. We were keeping them in the patio and they started destroying the screens by climbing them up. So we spent many nights covering the screen areas first with paper (DH was out of town and I was half asleep) and then with tin foil based on the suggestion of Professor Google. The blue is painters tape, which we seem to use for everything in the style of duct tape but it doesn’t leave as much sticky gunk behind. As you can see there are several points where there are small holes in the screen that we had to additionally tape over with painters tape. Kittens are pretty amazing and also relentless.
The view from outside.
There is an actual big hole in the screen over there on the far right with the blue tape. We must have been fast on the tape to keep Tiger from getting out of it.
We had actually replaced the screen on the door several years ago when it had gotten a bit torn up, I think via some previous kitties. Instead of using standard thin metal for the screen which had started, we used something advertised as a pet screen. (I believe we also used it when DH made this screen door kludge for me in my office so I could get fresh air in while working from home– nope, in the comments I said we just used normal screen and not pet-safe. Oops.)
Still, this seemed like a really daunting task so I looked up lots of contractors and only found two and then DH decided that dealing with the contractors was going to be too much effort and he decided that maybe it wasn’t as impossible as we’d first imagined.
View from inside. (First panel completed.)
This time around we used Phifer Black Pet Screen. So far it is holding up to Tiger climbing on it without tears. (She has been told repeatedly not to, but she doesn’t always listen. Orange climbed up once after the replacement but hasn’t since being removed, we think.)
Spline and pushy tool
The process isn’t that bad. DH did it over several evenings, one panel per evening. First he’d take off the panel. Then he’d cut an overlarge strip. Then, using a ladder, a spline (which is a thin rubbery thing), and an interesting pushy tool (that uses a wheel to push the spline in), he’d squish the screen into the top edge of the panel, followed by the spline. He repeated for the other three sides. Then cut off the excess screen. And done!
I’m impressed with how he managed to hide the pro-ICE flag across the street in this shot. I already miss that sight being blocked off by painters tape.
DH says this is the first time in over a year that we haven’t had painters tape somewhere in the house temporarily keeping a hole closed. DC2 then pointed out that zie has a door to hir bathroom that’s falling apart that zie has painters taped at the top. (These are the same kind of door that DH just glued back together on our pantry.) So I guess that’s the next project.
Tiger still likes to climb.
Total cost: $158 for the screen. $34 for the spline. We already owned the pushy tool. And then as many evenings as there are panels to the patio, so 5 evenings (since we’d already done the screen door). So, under $200. Not cheap, but probably better than having to deal with a contractor.
Link love
July 19, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieIt’s been a weird and rough week for me. I should probably post and may post about each individual thing but if I don’t: 1. DH’s relative got arrested 2. Trying to get DC1’s summer student-at-large tuition to be in-state instead of out-of-state has taken over a month and hours and we have to pay the full 8K and wait to be reimbursed 3. The place I got a massage accidentally added my card to someone else’s account and that person got $600 of services in like a week and I may not get my replacement card before I travel next (I do have another card and the cc company is reimbursing and the massage place figured out what happened) 4. Colbert being cancelled hit REALLY hard– I am so worried about the future of democracy in the world. A free press is necessary for a functioning democracy. 5. Got a paper rejected. 6. Talked to an associate dean about a harassment complaint a staff member I have interacted with literally twice in the 2-3 years she’s been here posted with central administration (the staff member accused me of a bunch of things I did not do, which is scary). I can’t believe I forgot that, but I guess that happened Monday. I’m feeling a little fragile right now.
This article has been going around the internet— basically a guy did an RCT (a real one, not like the fake one that that MIT econ grad student made up) where they randomized AI tools for software developers. They found that developers thought AI made them more productive in terms of completion time (which is much better than “lines of code” as a measure that some of these studies use(!)), but it actually made them less productive, and more experience meant a worse hit to productivity. I feel like I am spending all my coding time these days adding unit tests and debugging AI code that RAs and coauthors have made.
Grok is really three elon musks in a trench coat. That is– AI can be used to create propaganda. And it is being used to create propaganda. The bad kind of propaganda. (Can you tell I’ve been rewatching Daria?)
You’ve probably seen this article about cinema’s greatest scene in Casablanca… but like, it seems like a good time to revisit it and rewatch it.
“This paper shows how racial violence in the post-Reconstruction U.S. South was tied to the local performance of the anti-Black Democratic Party in presidential elections… These findings point to the strategic use of racial violence by Democratic elites, prefiguring the formal vote suppression of Jim Crow.”
In the name of “efficiency” Trump destroyed a lot of food that was supposed to feed hungry children worldwide. And instead… didn’t. Paired action: This 5calls.
I can’t remember if I shared this comic before, but it took me a few moments to get and then I thought it was hilarious.
Edward Fonseca died between filming a game changer episode and the episode being aired. The dropout community filled up his go-fund-me page, prompting one of his daughters to write this memorial for him. He sounds like a wonderful wonderful person.
The New York Times is trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid. Paired actions: Write the NYTimes, get rid of your NYTimes subscription, support the Guardian, support Zohran Mamdani. Also enjoy this NYTimes headline writer— it is SO funny.
Rolling Stone article about how the above is politically motivated. Paired action: cancel any paramount subscription and tell them why, watch Seth Myers and/or Jimmy Kimmel, watch remaining Colbert episodes. They’re coming for the daily show as well. List of companies owned by Paramount. (Note: Colbert has the highest ratings for late night talk shows and its ratings have been increasing rather than decreasing. That’s not including the people who watch on youtube later. It also just got nominated for an Emmy.) Paramount hasn’t yet learned that caving to Trump just leads to more caving. And they’re willing to participate in killing democracy in order to get bonuses from a merger that still may never happen.
Remember Tiffany in Daria? Here’s an interesting fan fiction piece suggesting it’s because her parents put her on a tranquilizer.
Ask the grumpies: consequences of private equity
July 18, 2025 — nicoleandmaggiehearme75e02d9b3c3 asks:
The balance between companies funded by private equity and public companies has shifted significantly in the last several decades; is this a good thing for investors? the country? what long reaching effects do you think it will have on the economy?
I am definitely not an expert on this topic. So mostly I’m going to punt. I have opinions but they’re not professional opinions, so take them with a grain of salt.
Private equity companies (not listed on the stock market so anyone can buy them) have a lot more freedom than do public companies. For example, I believe there’s a law that says that public companies legally have to do things in the shareholders “best interests” (often interpreted as making profits, though apparently it doesn’t have to be) whereas private don’t. Apparently, there’s been a shift from public to private over time. Though the previously linked to article states that a lot of that is because publicly held companies are merging– that is going to be bad because monopoly power is inefficient.
Is the shift good for investors? Probably not– regular investors can’t invest in private equity. There’s ways to invest in private equity firms and these have scary names like Blackstone or Bain Capital– companies you’ve heard of in the news for not great things. (Also, is it just me, or are they named after like, supervillains?)
Is it good for the country? I dunno, how important are those regulations private equity firms are skirting? Are they helpful or harmful? I don’t know. Secrecy seems like potentially a bad thing, but easier access to capital could go either way. (Professor Google informs me that Private Equity companies are not Hedge Funds, so they’re not there to strip companies down and they do care about long-term profits.) If they’re increasing the gap between the super wealthy and everyone else then that’s bad.
Long reaching effects on the economy? Again, no idea. Though increased wealth inequality is harmful.
I may need to make new friends
July 16, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieMy closest friend at work is going on leave next year to another country. Last time she was away I had other friends to take work breaks with and gossip etc. This time all those folks have moved on to better schools or been promoted to positions where they can’t really gossip anymore.
It’s kind of lonely at work! Those lunch/walk breaks were tremendously important for my mental health and also good for me physically. I guess I can still walk around with a podcast or something, although I will need to purchase headphones of some kind. (Preferably with a chord since I am extremely good at losing things.)
It’s hard because I’m a full professor now and we have new hires coming in, but I’m in more of a mentory position with them (and have some official power over them) rather than a gossipy position.
If I want anything to change I will have to put forward some effort, but I’m not really sure how. My extraverted on-leave friend suggested her alternate lunch/walking buddy but I haven’t been able to stomach being around her since I found out she voted for Jill Stein. My friend’s also got a couple of other gossip-buddies but they’re incredibly negative about everything and also only come into the building on the days they teach (this is probably related). There are associates in my own department that I end up talking with for ages when we run into each other in the break room, but we generally end up doing department service work during those conversations and we all need to be spending more time on research. (Assistants always end up getting heavy mentoring in that situation… I sure do talk an awful lot for an introvert… Or maybe I just mostly avoid the break room when other people are around and being in the break room with a junior faculty member is rare so conversation needs build up.)
A possibility would be to invite different people out at different times, but I dunno, I’m not sure I want to. It seems like a lot of effort.
Man, I’m so lazy.
Headphones may be the best solution. There’s a lot of Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble to be listened to.
RBOC
July 14, 2025 — nicoleandmaggie- I got half a month’s summer salary for being a contractor on a grant. It has been a long time since I’ve gotten any summer salary. When I got my actual paycheck it was WAY less than half of my usual take-home pay. Then I remembered that I have it set to take out a set amount for retirement each month instead of a percentage of the gross. So that money will come back to me in December when I run out of retirement space a month earlier than usual. I’m glad the university does that contribution stop automatically. DH once worked for a place that didn’t and it would overfill and then we’d have to deal with that later.
- DC2 LOVED the computer science study hall— it’s the first time zie has really gotten interested in programming. This class seemed a lot easier for hir than the Politics and Power (now US government and politics) class lass summer, though I don’t know if that’s because zie is a year older or if math stuff just comes easier than writing. Zie is working on programming a text-based game based on Through the Looking Glass now as a follow-up self-study project. I 100% recommend Study Hall if you have kids who could use some cheap college credit and are ok with online classes. It is crazy that it is only $25 to take the class (and only $400 more to get college credit, which you can decide on after seeing your grade). Hank Green is amazing.
- We recently had a 14K credit card bill, which I think is a new high for us. 5K was insurance (combined home, umbrella, half of auto), 2K was DH’s emergency room visit for finding out he had gallstones, $600 was car stuff, $800 was 3 weeks of DC2’s ice skating summer camp, $700 was surgery for Sister Kitty to remove a tooth… and then just a lot of random spending and donations. Grocery costs are up for us. There’s a new coffee place in town that DH really likes, and more boba tea shops, though I didn’t actually add up our latte factor.
- My home computer (a DH hand-me-down) is way faster than my work computer, but sadly I only have Stata 17 and the thing I’m working on requires Stata 18 or 19.
- DC1 somehow managed to break hir relatively new laptop. It mostly works, but the touch screen no longer works, and only DC1 is able to use the mouse pad since it requires some kind of trick. Zie said someone stepped on it. It’s still working ok for programming assignments though.
- One of my professional bucket list things was to coin a term. I have just now had the experience where a paper has used the term without any citation (and no citing me!), suggesting that it is now a coined term. I still think they should have cited me though…
- I’ve been wanting to move away from Passion Planner to something with less… passion (and thus, less unnecessary bulk– also I wanted a later end than July 1), but last year the design was super cute so I was like, ok, one more year. This year the design has moved from cute to twee, so I was like, ok, now is time to move to Mark’s academic! But… it is hard to find Mark’s academic calendars anywhere. There’s like two places online that sell them and they only have one color of the cranes (blue) and they both have expensive shipping. They’re September start, so I could wait and see if more places carry them and in different colors or they could just sell out. In the mean time I’m using an undated Campus Study Planner which is kind of nice, but I don’t want to have to date things and I wish it had half hour increments and not just hour increments in the time. It does have a lot to like though.
- I like a weekly vertical layout with space for a couple of post-it notes and some weekly and daily notes as well. Passion planner was kind of great for that. I could try a Franklin Planner— Miser mom recommended that system a few years ago. It looks like you don’t get to choose the color/theme and you also have to buy a binder to go with it, which seems kind of crazy for the price. I might keep in mind this $50 one, I dunno. It’s not sparking joy.
- I also wish I could get a planner that puts the monthly planner at the front all together instead of starting out each set of weeks with a new month. That seems nigh impossible.
Link love
July 12, 2025 — nicoleandmaggieHelp fund this librarian who is suing for being fired illegally for approving a display that had a book about a transgender child in it.
Donate to this library that is fighting off a threatened takeover by private equity. Paired action: Donation link here.
“In our dominant media narrative, Republicans are the normal, mainstream, moderate party, while all Democrats are expected to struggle every day to convince us that they aren’t extremists.”
Paired action to the above: Not sure what you can do other than complain to your MOC, but I think this is one of those stories worth posting on social media so people who don’t pay attention see he’s corrupt and hurting veterans.
Updated map of nuclear targets in the US and how to survive.
America has never seen corruption like this. 5calls still needs a corruption tab, but you can call your MOC and decry whatever in that article you feel like decrying.
FDA suspends milk quality tests, including those for bird flu. Bird flu survives pasteurization. Paired action: 5calls is really not keeping up. Call your MOC and tell them that the FDA needs to be funded and milk needs to be tested for bird flu so we don’t have another pandemic and demand RFK’s resignation from HHS and maybe switch to oatmilk or nutmilk for a while.
Renter protection policies that forbid background checks increase discrimination against Black and immigrant renters in Minnesota.
Not to brag, but I WAS a math major. And I read lots of fiction! Paired action: encourage a kid to read a book. (Me: I just read a thread that said people who read fiction are more empathetic. DC2: I don’t care. Me: [Shocked face] DC2: I was joking! I was joking!)
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