Some further progress cleaning up the https://xkcd.com/1360/ -esque augean stables that is my hard drive.

Tomato chicken I made a couple days ago was initially bland, but had improved stewing in its own juices in the fridge.

Did some personal archaeology. Helped a little with laundry. Threw some chicken, onions, tomato, stock, peppers in the slow cooker and hopefully shredded chicken and rice and beans dinner will come out of that.

Dinner with akiva and dannel at nuevo portal in carroll gardens. Ate a pile of chicken stew and rice and beans and maduros, good times. I do miss brooklyn a little, still. Hadn't seen dannel in forever, good to catch up.

Dinner at Aliada; hadn't been there in a while. Nice savory custard on the moussaka, nice pork kebab sandwich.

After getting home from work immediately appeared to be a traintastrophe in the making, went to see Esther Schor talk about her book "Bridge of Words". Kinda neat. The stalled train situation had resolved itself in the meantime, got home, had some ramen with K.

Made some bread to make sure my yeast supply is still alive, in preparation for planning to make some pizza tomorrow. It is, and bread turned out fine. Ate it straight out of the oven with butter and honey.

Slept terrrrrribly last night, don't know why. Woke up about 1-2am, and felt an increasing hard-to-break cycle of anxiety, stomach feeling like crap, and feeling oversensitive about every stupid noise in the apartment; hearing neighbors cough or snore, pipes clanging, etc ( Read more... )

K's mom's back in town now, so we had a little thanksgiving me and her and both her parents. K did a great job of the turkey (breast, not entire bird, because SENSIBLE) and assorted other fixins.

K's mom was still out of town, so we put off doing any kind of thanksgiving dinner till next weekend. Relaxedly made some chicken curry for dinner, turned out acceptable but not great at first --- then K judged that it just needed a little lemon juice and slightly more salt, and wouldn't you know it, that made it tons better.

More good progress at work; made some burgers for me and K for dinner.