On account of having used so much of my PTO for the Worldcon trip and needing to let it accumulate back up for Westercon and Worldcon next year and maybe a few other trips, we are not going to Loscon this year, so we'll miss the big Loscon 50 celebration. Neither Lisa nor I travel to family gatherings the way we did when we were younger, so once ( Read more... )

Because we will be traveling on Wednesday-Thursday, Lisa cooked a Thanksgiving meal that we had for lunch on Monday.

( Why a Duck )

I do have a lot to be thankful for. I have a house (the final mortgage payment for which will fall in just a couple of months, a decently good job, and a fair bit of security. And today, an excellent Thanksgiving dinner prepared by Lisa.

( Traditional Fernley House Thanksgiving )

In the alternative universe where COVID-19 never happened, today would have been the fourth day of the 2021 Worldcon, and Lisa and I would have been much too busy to do anything associated with my birthday. But in this universe, assuming thing go as planned (and that's a big assumption), Lisa and I will be on the road to Loscon 47 / Westercon 73 on ( Read more... )

I de-boned the Thanksgiving duck after letting it simmer on the stove for several days (refrigerating it overnight and adding water so it wouldn't burn). Then I added rice and let that cook, and the result was duck soup with rice that was good for another dinner and three lunches, the last of which was today. Last night I ate the last slice of ( Read more... )

Duck doesn't leave a lot of leftovers, and what there is I have simmering away on the wood stove for eventual conversion to soup; however, there was plenty of the rest of last night's dinner to make lunch for today and probably for tomorrow as well. And also pumpkin pie.

I was the "team player" for the Day Jobbe, working today so that the rest of ( Read more... )

Those of you who have followed me for a while know that this isn't unusual for me since my grandfather passed away and we moved to Fernley, but Lisa and I having a quiet Thanksgiving at home has more significance this year than usual.

( Stay Home, Stay Safe, Get Stuffed )

As I've previously mentioned, we will be spending our Thanksgiving Day driving from Bishop to Los Angeles, so we had our big Thanksgiving Day meal last night.

( Several Helpings of The Usual, With Trimmings )

Ever since Raley's bought Scolari's grocery store, we have been unable to get duck locally. For the first time in some years, we will not be celebrating Thanksgiving day at home. (We will in fact be driving from Bishop to Los Angeles on the first full day of our multi-week multi-convention road trip.) So today after I got off work, Lisa and I drove ( Read more... )

This is our eighth Thanksgiving in Fernley House, as the sale closed on November 1, 2011. (Because of a prior restriction on the deed, we had to rent the house for 2 1/2 months after moving in after the 2011 Worldcon before we could actually buy it.) For the last several years (basically since my grandfather died and my sister went into the nursing ( Read more... )