Our Christmas misadventures this year take us back to merrie olde England, though I assure you in a way not nearly as serious as stories of years past. Yeah. No. I don’t come out of this one looking nearly as good as the last time I wrote about England. I have always been my favorite […]
A word, here, about keeping safe. The Christmas party moved online last night and was what I am going to call a qualified success. I had done some reasonably significant work in the leadup to try and obviate the biggest technical hurdles we were going to face. My thinking had been that this would be […]
Yesterday was great! Yesterday was so great! Today was… less great. As part of my ongoing quest to make Mandalorian fruitcake, I needed to get a new cake pan. The recipe calls for an 8 inch pan, and my only 8 inch pan is an absolute junkpile, and I wasn’t up for doing the math […]
A word, here, about getting the ball rolling. I don’t know about where you are, but Christmas decorations started going up very early in my neighborhood. It definitely helps that it was something like 65 degrees last Saturday, but I had seen the occasional house with lights out as early as two weeks ago. I’ve […]
A word, here, about staying informed. After a year or so of shopping at Costco, I have developed something of a plan. As I have noted before, Costco is sort of like Disney World. It’s way too big, and full of awesome stuff you want, and you can end up blowing through your entire wallet […]
A word, here, about unfortunate turnarounds. I mentioned yesterday that I had a retail experience last weekend I did not enjoy. This is the thing I hate the most about Coronaworld. Well, the second-most, after the whole “virus that will probably make me die a horrible death alone in an isolation tank if I get […]
A word, here, about differing perceptions. My CSA comes on Tuesday, and after the more or less disaster of the last batch, or as some might call it, “what happens when you don’t learn how to store fresh vegetables,” I’ve made a concerted effort today to make sure I can use everything I’m getting in […]
A word, here, about enforced changes. I’ve been working off and on for weeks now on converting my old bedroom into an office. It’s slow going. It’s slow going party because I don’t put time into it as often as I’d like, but it’s also slow going because there’s a lot of work required to […]
A word, here, about overcoming adversity. After the unpleasantness with my taco meat yesterday, and oh my was it unpleasant, I noticed around lunchtime today that I was out of a number of essentials. Red grapefruit primary among them – I eat a LOT of red grapefruit – but I also was out of some […]
A word, here, about social distancing. I was planning to write about something else, but after a week in quarantine I finally got to go to the grocery store today, and the experience demands, I think, an immediate response. One of the few good things to come out of the recent upheaval is that I […]