Saw my sister-in-law and niece off this morning, after they popped down for the holiday weekend ( Read more... )

I think half the fun of home ownership is the little things that have to be taken care of. For example, one of the GFCI receptacles in the kitchen died sometime yesterday. There are two in there, and one died about two years ago. They're original to the house (2010), so it's unsurprising that they're wearing out now, but it's always a surprise. Had ( Read more... )

On a whim last December I picked up one of these little milk frothers, likely because my in-laws were coming and who doesn't want to look fancy for them? It works pretty well, I would definitely recommend it, especially for something that usually sells for less than US$20. I've mostly used it for frothing up unsweetened almond milk on occasion for ( Read more... )

Aside from the sound of machines running (washing machine, dishwasher), and the occasional "WTF" meow from a cat confused at the lack of loud humans, the house is now quiet. The in-laws departed first thing this morning. I made oven bacon while they were getting their stuff together, and we all had a good chat before they took off. It was very nice ( Read more... )

I was all set to go downstairs and play video games, and instead I cleaned out a kitchen cabinet and reorganized two drawers. At least I did something productive? I did eventually play on the Switch, but the diversion was a strange left turn from what I had been expecting to do. I blame the french press coffee for a) taking more time; and b) making ( Read more... )

Neither of us was feeling up to going out last night, so we did the weekly comics run today instead, followed by a trip to BJ's wholesale for sundries. Thursdays are actually better, IMNSHO, at the comic shop because there are fewer humans around than there are on Wednesdays, which is the day new comic books come out each week. Even before the ( Read more... )

While attempting to clean out my little keurig coffee maker this morning, I managed to blow the motor (and a house breaker). So, RIP coffee maker. Of course, no one is shipping them quickly (almost three weeks for Amazon), and I don't think I need to risk a trip out for one, so I ordered a slightly upgraded one from the company directly. I'd just ( Read more... )

Switching between the medications for reflux ain’t all that fun. My body seems to want about a two week adjustment period before it evens out. Given that I’m in the third adjustment period (prescription samples, over-the-counter, now back to the prescription), it seems to be a regular thing. The first week has some unintended side effects ( ( Read more... )

Life can be such an interesting experiment. After putting off seeing a specialist for ages, I finally got tired of a consistent belching that I had going on. Turns out the reflux that my mother and her father have/had was passed to me. Yay! Long story short the excess acid production was/is causing me to swallow too much air, so that’s what was/is ( Read more... )

I want more coffee, but I’m trapped by a cat in my lap who’s purring up a storm, and burying her head in the crook of my arm. I feel bad for the lack of attention she’s gotten, and the disruption to her routine over the past few days with visitors in the house, so I stay seated, surfing the web and occasionally scratching an ear.

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