I'm just a non-posting machine, these days, innit. What's been going on lately.

Last week was Monday-Thursday in my current pattern of working four tens instead of five eights; and I Got Things Done, oh my goodness.

( Friday )

Visited my parents this weekend, with Gentleman Caller; my brother and his little family also came in. All of us together - very nice, though quite crowded ( Read more... )

There is an ongoing disagreement about chili. I maintain the perfectly reasonable common-sense position that normal chili contains beans, and while you can make chili without beans, it is then correctly described as "chili without beans". Himself insists that chili does not contain beans, and the moment you add beans, what you have is no longer ( Read more... )

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So we're watching Giants vs. 49ers, right? And the young man from San Francisco scores a touchdown and then immediately hops up on the TV platform and stands like a statue, and here comes a yellow flag, because yeah, what the kid has done is (literally!) put himself on a pedestal, which is apparently unsportsmanlike "excessive celebration". ( Read more... )

You know, I remember thinking, just a few weeks ago, how I was enjoying waking up in the morning and not feeling like I couldn't possibly go to work. Following last spring and summer, that was a pleasant thing to wake up to. And then my dad got sick and I managed to fret myself into such a state that I didn't actually notice when I came down with ( Read more... )

Dinner was a success. Gentleman Caller (who, I begin to think, needs his own tag) had only seen the Eccleston series of Doctor Who (and some classic stuff thanks to a college roommate who, times being what they were, had to collect them all on VHS) and elected to correct that; we began with "The Christmas Invasion" and got through "School Reunion ( Read more... )

I'm following a delicious recipe of my mom's, so hopefully this will turn out as deliciously as it does at her house. Here it is:Grease a casserole pan. (How big are those things? A rectangular one, I mean. 9x12? Something like that.) Cover the bottom of the pan with 4 oz. of dried beef. Trim eight boneless, skinless chicken breasts (I only ( Read more... )

1. I'm doing better for the moment re: my dad. Still periodically flipping out, but the flipping distance is a little less and the whole loss-of-shit experience is quieter. Things are still not good, but my poor wigged-out superego is no longer howling that the sky is falling. We're okay ( Read more... )

1. I CAN HAS SWISS BALL OFFICE CHAIR. It was very easy to put together, not too time-consuming to inflate, and now I am sitting on a yoga ball that doesn't roll away when I stand up and my neighbor across the office hall wants one too. (I let him sit on mine to demonstrate that even though he is about six and a half feet tall his knees will still ( Read more... )