Sorry. I didn't mean to disappear for an entire month. Things just got hectic and I really didn't have the energy for this, so I kept saying I'd do it tomorrow. Then I had paperwork hell, but that's a different matter.
In some ways though, I thought this would be the perfect day to come back because today is National Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day. So, I'm not going to cry over the days I didn't post or that my break took a lot longer than I had planned it to be.
One fun thing about that phrase though, is that it's not limited to English. You can check at this blog here, who already wrote up about it. Most cultures have something similar to this phrase, a surprising number of them even include milk specifically instead of just water or juice or something. I seriously expected more variety from this phrase in other languages.
Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow to tell you about Hellbender Salamanders. I haven't investigated them much because I'm bribing myself to get back to this with that, but there's got to be something interesting about them beyond their name and being the largest salamander in North America. And that they're the only member of their branch of the Salamander family tree. And that they're also known as Snot Otters. Or Lasagna Lizards.
I'm just gonna sign off now before I start diving down that rabbit hole and tell you about them immediately. Tomorrow. Bribing myself with that.
