Another unremarkable day, another mostly wasted weekend. Treading water, but little forward progress ( Read more... )

My Friday off was mostly wasted, apart from food prep, hooping and home socializing. Baked a large batch of spiced chicken thighs, cut up the watermelon and boiled a dozen eggs. Between that and other things on hand like ham, cabbage, backeyed peas, apples, peanut butter, bagels goat cheese, and other bits and bobs, that should be enough balanced ( Read more... )

Had a halfway decent day. Lots going on. Still behind on PRs and labour adjustments, and I've been appointed of of the two RCON liaisons for our project with just over 300 users between us Holding check-in meetings, triaging issues and reporting to the RCON team and our management team. Normally this is right up my alley, but was hoping to have a ( Read more... )

More alert than I was expecting, but still pretty tired. Had to push to stay on track with work, but made it to five. It's possible that hooping made enough of a difference for me to hold it together. I now have three days of hooping in a row. It wasn't a delight, but it wasn't too much of a chore. I use Spotify with a Bluetooth headset to minimize ( Read more... )

I spent a year and a half collecting and cooking good comfort food recipes to turn our gaming nights into an oasis of hygge. I got a little too good at it. Three to four weeks per month, I served a full meal for six - meat, two sides, dessert and two wines. It was a great feeling being able to provide that anchor after so being many years out of ( Read more... )

Bought Actual Food That Goes in the Fridge for the first time seemingly in weeks. Made a dinner that dirtied a crapload of dishes, but now I have three days worth of salad (13 ingredients!) and spagooter. (You say busghetti, I say spagooter). Purged the fridge of sentient life forms. Did the dishes too. And a hooping session. Look at me go.

1) Dump twice the cheese and toppings on so that the crust is good and soggy ( Read more... )

I had my first (several) Bushwhackers at Bushwhacker's, a fabulous dive on a sandbar in or near Pensacola. Being built on a sandbar, it was sadly blown off the face of the Earth several years ago. ::: sighs ::: wipes a tear ( Read more... )

I give enough tours of Durham, NC that it's amazing that I didn't think of doing this until now. Here's a (soon-to-be-updated) list of my favourite downtown spots and local resources - My particular faves (I tried to narrow it down) are marked with arrows:

LOCAL PUBLICATIONS
Independent Weekly (regional arts & entertainment)
Indy Week Best of the ( Read more... )

I give enough tours of Chapel Hill / Carrboro, NC that it's amazing that I didn't think of doing this until now. Here's a (soon-to-be-updated) list of my favourite downtown spots and local resources. My faves are marked with an arrow (hard to narrow it down):

LOCAL PUBLICATIONS
Independent Weekly (regional arts & entertainment)
Indy Week Best of ( Read more... )