There’s the expression single, and ready to mingle.

Are there other rhyming expressions we should use, like dating, so averse to extracurricular mating?

Or married, perhaps I’m looking harried, I don’t want to insult marriage.

Wedded, so can’t be bedded, maybe that’s the one, I don’t know.

I’m ready to mingle, but like socially, with friends, that’s, I mean, allowed mingling.

Your Daily Lex I’d been not watching some shows that I love, notably Taskmaster.

I loved it, and I felt like I was watching it too much, and I should spread it out more to enjoy it.

And then I was recording an episode of The Rebound a week or two ago, and I was thinking about how there were a variety of shows I’d like to watch that I’d been holding, so that I wouldn’t watch all the good stuff right away.

And I was like, you know what, I could get hit by a bus any day.

Watch the shows you want to watch, and that’s been my new philosophy.

So I watched all of Baby Reindeer on Netflix, because it won Emmy Awards.

And it was, I was going to say fine, but it was better than fine.

It was good.

It was hard, though.

It was hard to watch.

But I’ve watched so much Taskmaster in the past couple of weeks, and it’s funny because when I watch Taskmaster, it makes a couple things happen.

One, it makes me wish I was on Taskmaster.

It makes me wish I hosted an American version of Taskmaster, because although I love Reggie Watts, he was not a good host of the American Taskmaster.

It makes me want to write episodes of my podcast Friendly Competition, which is directly inspired by Taskmaster, and I did.

We’re taping one soon.

It also makes me want to talk in European accents.

I was watching a lot of the British one, and then I switched to New Zealand.

I’m going to watch some of the Australian one, and I just want to talk in those accents all the time.

I don’t know if there are many accents being covered there, but that’s what happens when I watch it.

But, man, what a great show Taskmaster is.

I also want to watch the latest season of Trying on Apple TV+, which I really enjoyed, and I just started watching Dark Matter, but that’s going to take a very long time to watch because I’m watching it with Lauren, because we are betrothed and slow to watch-showed.

That one didn’t work, but it was improvised, so you can at least appreciate that I made the effort.

Aren’t that many words I can think of off the top of my head for married?

Because I already is wedded and married, and now betrothed.

We are spouses, and not good at sitting and watching TV on our couches.

Do I always make myself laugh out loud on this show?

I guess I do.

I happen to think I’m funny.

I was talking with Ani earlier this week, late last week, something, about how I am seen by my friends and my kids, because they’re saying, I guess I want to be the funny one.

And Ani’s like, oh no, I think you’re seen as the jokester, and I was like, well, I don’t know if I want to be seen as the jokester, because the jokester makes jokes.

The funny one is funny.

And Ani’s like, no, you’re the funny jokester, and I was like, okay.

And Ani’s like, well, you’re more funny than jokester, which I thought was the win I was clearly angling for, and Ani knows who’s paying for college, so there you go.

But yeah, I don’t know.

That made me laugh.

And if you can’t make yourself laugh, then why bother?

I’m sure I’ve talked about this in many of the 10 million episodes of this show, but I do love when a joke occurs to me, and I say it so fast that it makes me laugh, because I’m kind of hearing it along with you, if you will.

And just jumping from random thought to random thought, after recording today’s episode of The Read Band, I was talking with my friends and co-hosts, Stan and John, about how today, as I’m recording this, which is how daily shows work, there was one of my many word games that I publish at LexDotGames, had the same answer twice, and by a vowel, each with a different missing vowel.

And I noted it this morning when I play-tested it, and I thought, well, that’s undesired, but fine.

A lot of people wrote to me about it.

Some thought it was diabolical, some thought it was perhaps a mistake.

I guess it was both.

And I was thinking, and I was saying to Dan and John, like, I don’t mind when people write to me about it.

I like that they care.

I like that they’re playing.

But the number of word games I have authored this year is high.

More than 300, well, I guess in the year, 365 Collections Puzzles, because it’s more than a year old.

And I’ve got other newer games.

But something like, I’m getting very close to having written 2,000 word games this year.

There’s going to be mistakes.

Next year it’ll be even higher, because next year there’ll be 365 of all of them.

And wow, that’s a lot.

And I think there’s six that I really, truly have to author.

I guess between Collections, Lexicogs, and By a Vowel, and the two crosswords, that’s five a day that really require authoring.

The others can kind of generate themselves in most ways.

So yeah, 2,000 games or so, I’ll write next year.

1,800.

You do the math.

1,825.

I did the math.

That’s a lot of games.

Feel free to email me about them, but don’t be shocked if I’m like, yep, that’s how it happens.

1,800 games.

No editor.

Doing the best I can.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed all these rhymes.

They were all from me to you.

And I hope you’re having just a wonderful day.

Goodbye.

Lex.