Crossposting to LiveJournal from Dreamwidth has stopped working reliably, and I've decided now is as good a time as any to stop that entirely. Follow me there if you want to see the new stuff.

I need to write more regularly. I'm so scattered.

I got myself an eye doctor appointment earlier this week. It's amazing how fast it goes from "hmm, maybe I should get a new pair of glasses" to "I really need new glasses now". So really looking forward to getting a new pair.

Mystery Hunt was this weekend. My team did pretty well (came in third), and ( Read more... )

We made it through our trip and haven't got sick yet. COVID cases are starting to take off at kid's school, though. Not super optimistic their containment will continue to hold, and even if it does, they're going to have a spike in cases due to community transmission more broadly. Kid's teacher was out sick this week, her family has COVID.

I started ( Read more... )

So we're travelling for the winter holidays and visiting Julie's family for the first time in two years. If I'd made the plans in December rather than November, they probably would have been different. But ultimately I couldn't put Eris through the last-minute cancellation of her holiday plans after all she's been through so far. So it's down to ( Read more... )

I took some time this week to rewatch the old Matrix movies (including everyone's favorite Christmas movie, The Matrix Revolutions), along with the newly-released one.

(Which was going to be the one movie I made it out to theaters for, but turns out that's still a no. It's kind of interesting that one of the last films I saw in theaters before I ( Read more... )

Man, I really wish we could get to a little more political leverage than "smallest possible Senate majority plus a President who less than 30% of the Senate swing vote's electorate voted for" before deciding that if it's not going to happen under these conditions, then it's all fake and we might as well give up. The example of Jim Jeffords, who ( Read more... )

Liz and Eli were married last Sunday on the floor of the US Senate. (Actually the model Senate at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate in Boston.) Was really great to be able to join them for the happy event.

(Also was an opportunity for Julie to give me a quick tour of her new lab after. Seemed like a pretty cool setup, though one bio lab ( Read more... )

Loyal Nine in Cambridge is closing. Another favorite gone. I wonder what will be there next. The space is so incredible, if another restaurant doesn't take up the mantle it will be a real shame. Anyways I spent the whole weekend pretty bummed out about that, though we did go there for a last brunch. Service was very slow and lobster popovers were ( Read more... )

Reposting this riddle from Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog, so that I can put the solution behind a link:

Four wizards, A, B, C, and D, were given three cards each. They were told that the cards had numbers from 1 to 12 written without repeats. The wizards only knew their own three numbers and had the following exchange.

A: "I have number 8 on one of my ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to write, I keep meaning to write, I keep meaning to write...

So here comes a flood of unrelated things.

Thanksgiving came and went. I made ~seven meals worth of food for the occasion. Bought gravy, green bean casserole, a stuffed turkey breast roast (to cook at home), small pies (pumpkin, apple, and pecan from Mariposa), and ice cream ( Read more... )