I got up a bit later than intended, and then took a little longer getting ready to leave than intended, with the net result that I left at 12:15pm instead of 11-11:30am, but my drive was pretty smooth and I made it to NJ before sunset, so it's all good. I listened to the latest episode of Enthusigasm, and then several lectures in my current Great ( Read more... )

Things about today:

1. Got my Covid booster shot! This was annoying to schedule, but the actual shot part went very smoothly. My upper arm has been getting achey as the day wears on, but so far not too badly.

2. The local Collegetown burger place I sometimes order from has changed their order/payment processor YET AGAIN, which is frustrating and ( Read more... )

So, I am back home in Ithaca! Friday was a LONG day on the road -- about an hour longer than expected, actually, because of snow and sleet and such, starting in eastern Ohio. But we made it and got Chinese takeout for dinner, so that was okay.

Thanksgiving itself went pretty well. We had reserved a takeout order from Maggiano's (which is apparently ( Read more... )

Things about today:

1. Did laundry in the morning(ish), and successfully finished before the afternoon rain.

2. Zoom call with Susan and Cat at 1pm. It is really good to see them, even virtually! :D Also, Susan has okayed telling people, so I am pleased beyond words to announce (to you guys, who don't know her at all *wry*) that she is pregnant, with ( Read more... )

Things done today:

1. Attended the third session of my virtual tax CE course on investment income. Now I just have to do the case study portions and the test will unlock.

2. Set up auto-pay for my car loan. However, that won't kick in until October, so I then went into town and made my first payment in person. I have decided to pay more than the ( Read more... )

As of about 4:30pm today, I am the proud owner of a black 2018 Toyota Camry LE. :DDD

There is only about... .5 of a used car dealership in Ithaca that is not part of the Maguire conglomeration of car dealerships (Pritchard Automotive, still fighting the good fight five generations on -- they used to deal new cars, but the 2008 Great Recession was a ( Read more... )

I did not get around to making the scallop chowder yesterday -- I caught up on some lost sleep instead -- but I tackled the project tonight.

I kind of mashed five recipes together and made vague gestures in the direction of measurements, so I don't know how usefully I can reproduce my process. It went kind of like this:

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Liz's Half- ( Read more... )

I am attempting to keep myself engaged in life, rather than sleep forever. Here are some recent things I have done/am doing:

1. I kind of accidentally acquired half the necessary ingredients to make scallop chowder (I occasionally impulse-buy seafood, it's a Thing) so I looked up a couple recipes and bought some of the other ingredients this evening ( Read more... )

It's weird to be focusing on photos and videos instead of the press of rentals -- I find myself more inclined to drift off into websurfing when I am not actively out staging and unstaging apartments or chivvying Mr. Geniality into coming along to shoot videos.

That is probably also at least somewhat a blue funk symptom, but it's hard to say where ( Read more... )

Dad arrived Thursday afternoon/evening, and was waiting in my apartment when I got home from work. We had steak, broccoli, and rice for dinner, because we could :)

My surgery was at 10:15am on Friday, with a check-in time of 8:45am. On the one hand, this meant I could get up at 7am and take my pills with some cranberry juice before the surgery. On ( Read more... )