Dinner in Europe can range from 6pm (in Nordic countries) to 10pm in Spain and Italy. Portugal sits in the middle at 8pm, although I have the feeling it is moving towards 9pm.

The Fork and CoverManager report that the average dine out in Spain is now before 9pm, and Cataluña's survey reports the same trend.

While the reasons for the change are not entirely clear, Marta Junqué Surià, the director of Time Use Initiative, a nonprofit based in Barcelona that advocates for policies around sleep and wellness, pointed to the pandemic, which ruptured old routines, and suggested more people were seeking the health benefits associated with earlier mealtimes.

— The 10 P.M. Dinner Is a Spanish Tradition. Are People Giving It Up? by Jonathan Wolfe (NYT) (via Tyler Cohen)

My gym locker requires me to have a small lock, that I carry in my backpack. After (presumably) leaving the lock unlocked in my backpack and it shuffling around, it is now closed with a different combination that the one I had previously set it up with.

Since it's only 3 digits, I manually tried 000-130 and 970-999 until I gave up. Having wanted to learn lock picking for a while, I just youtube'd how to open a 3-digit lock and it was surprisingly easy.

Just start with the top dial and rotate it until you feel it click. Then do the opposite dial, then the middle one. With just a tiny feel for the pull, you can unlock it in 30 seconds. Tells you how good they are at providing safety.