Thanks to planned obsolescence, my only-a-few-years-old laptop is in its death throes. It’s been one decline after another for the past several months, but this week’s adventure is accepting keyboard/mouse input only when it feels like it, which means it’s now 99% useless. She who laughs last, though. When I moved, I had to give […]
I bought a dozen composition notebooks in different colors for Project Notebooks rather than my habitual Compost Heap of Ideas, which eventually requires a full day to organize before it reaches critical mass. I cleaned my “desk” (the dining room table), which involved organizing and culling the latest Compost Heap of Ideas, kept a scratch
I ordered myself a $50 treat (a year’s supply of tea) with my “sorry we got caught ripping you off for years, here’s a sliver of your money back” class action settlement. It was delivered somewhere else, which I know because I was doing yardwork that whole day, had my eye out for the truck
Today’s baking whim was KAF’s Triple Berry Cinnamon Swirl Bread, but with finely diced apples instead of berries. They used a decent amount of cinnamon for a change, so no further anarchy was necessary. Very soft and fluffy inside, rather like the doughnut dough I use to make cinnamon rolls. Not super sweet (which I’m
The Green Banana Lovers didn’t tap out this time until there was only one banana left, which isn’t enough to make banana bread.[efn_note]One of two acceptable uses for bananas, the second being bananas Foster (sans booze for me).[/efn_note] I considered making a half batch of the batter and baking it in a cake pan to
A Duolingo lesson was suspiciously insistent that rabbits aren’t dangerous, to which I forcefully responded, “Only rabbits can eat you!” When I googled that to see where it came from, there were ZERO results on the entire wide worldly web—not a near match, not a did-you-mean, nothing. I’m wondering if it was a pre-internet garage