With all the construction/demolition and all the disruption to people's routines from the pandemic, everyone's favorite commenals have been more in sight than usual in city. Yesterday, Eris and I saw a cat carrying such a trophy, perhaps bringing back a present for its favorite humans. Today, we saw one gruesomely bisected on the sidewalk on the ( Read more... )

One drink that I wish I could order somewhere is the hot ale flip (aka colonial flip), a concoction of ale, rum, eggs, molasses, and sugar, stirred with a red-hot fireplace poker. Of course, warm (and maybe flat) beer is not the most popular base for a drink, and that method of warming is probably not the most practical for modern times. But you'd ( Read more... )

My parents are in town this weekend for a visit. So they're getting a little time alone with the grandkid today, and I'm getting a bit of remarkably quiet time, starting with a nice brunch with Julie. They're taking her to the DeCordova Sculpture Garden and Drumlin Farm today, and we have some zoo trips planned together for Sunday and Monday. And I ( Read more... )

It's snowing. Really coming down, too, though I don't know if it will stick.

I'm continuously exhausted. Eris is a bit of a nightmare in the evenings. Mornings aren't great, either. She really wants a lot of hand-holding for everything, and is utterly uncompromising. Being tired makes her all the more inflexible, which doesn't help her get to bed.

As ( Read more... )

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I'm still waiting for this election stuff to be over. Or I suppose at this point I should say I'm just waiting for the current administration to be over. No reason to expect that "denial of the election results" will end before the next phases of the nightmare-duck begins. Of course it's nice that the coup the President is continuing to ( Read more... )

It seems that Joe Biden has won the election! On the one hand, this is not the sweeping rejection of Trumpism that I and many had hoped. Given who President Trump is (a liar, braggart, cheat, adulterer, bully, and troll, among other similar things), given his disastrous record and the fact that he, somewhat predictably, never took the job seriously ( Read more... )

More of the usual about how I'd be happier if I wrote more but I don't and I feel my entire life has become incoherent. Or how it's like time has sped up. Eight weeks of reopening in and now I'm feeling like the fatigue is sinking in again. Though to be fair we are being very careful for daycare's sake. Sending kid to daycare is incaution enough, ( Read more... )

Five weeks of reopening in. Things around here are okay. Somerville has pushed out phase three of reopening until at least August 17. Local schools will be doing... something.

Still tired, but at least this is back to somewhat close to the levels of tiredness before this emergency kicked in. I sure don't feel ready for the rest of this year.

I haven' ( Read more... )

It's that time of year when I start waking up early, whether or not I want to. So maybe this is a good time to get in a little more writing.

I went to the Union Square Farmers Market this weekend and it was nice, but a little unreal. I've never seen such attention paid to controlling infection risk outside of a medical setting, and many of the usual ( Read more... )

A few weeks back, daycare was off for a week and we took the opportunity to visit my brother Solomon on Sanibel Island. Was a very lovely vacation, with beautiful scenery and good food (some home-cooked). We visited a local nature preserve, saw some dolphins in the wild on a wildlife cruise, and swam in the Gulf. Was nice to see my brother and meet ( Read more... )