I'm wondering how long the Facebook/Instagram outage would have to go on before people check if LJ is still around?

Spoiler! it's still around.

fact: in the past year i have really perfected a method for making a perfect boule, crispy dark golden crust, lovely bake etc. It took a good bread flour and a proving basket though ::wink::

i'm already dreading work on Monday, ugh. this vacation (staycation) has been so incredible and ... well i just hope it's not as terribad as i think it will be. ::DEEP BREATHING ( Read more... )

So on FB it turns out that either due to the instability brought about by Covid or by the current political or a rancid combination of the two, people are more interested in "prepping" than they used to be. Here is a quick and dirty rundown of the most common prepping advice (minus shit about guns and ammo and the zombie of Obama coming to take ( Read more... )

best wishes for a Sweet year to my Jewish friends <3

Lovecraft Country might be filling the Supernatural-shaped hole in my heart right now <3

but this Halloween we are either sling-shotting candy out the window or making one of these with PVC pipe and sliding them down to the kids below!

So we live in the "Hermosa" neighborhood of Chicago, in the "Bungalow Belt" of houses built around 1918-1920 that is sometimes called Belmont Gardens. Which sounds really nice. But we are *also* on the Northwest side of Chicago which is not North enough to be in a "good" neighborhood but not quite WEST-west enough to be really bad i guess ... ( Read more... )

in general, my money is solidly on the Mormons (LDS community). Apparently preparing for disaster/famine is a part of their practice (i did not know this until a few days ago) and they seem to be prepared with food, water and and sanitary necessities for up to a year. Like, the average pantry has enough shelf-stable provisions for a year or more ( Read more... )

so a friend posted a question today "name 5 Things you loved when you were younger and now you can't quite figure out what the fuss was about." and i could only think of two. 1) Strawberry Quick (i used to have it with Frankenberry cereal, i never liked milk and Quick made it palatable and i REALLY loved the silt that developed between the cereal ( Read more... )

so being a human being humaning in the world with other humans is hard. It's hard for everyone to some degree, and it's made harder by imperfect understanding and imperfect communication methods. Even when interactions involve Good People, things still go sort of pear-shaped from time to time ( Read more... )