Huh. I just now noticed that somebody who unfriended me lo-these-many-months-if-not-years-ago not only unfriended me, they deleted one or more (haven't bothered to check, past the one where I noticed it) comments they'd left on my LJ. The one I noticed was a totally innocuous comment, along the lines of "I never seem to hear about interesting local ( Read more... )

Feeling kind of melancholy, so I'm making rice pudding. (When I was a kid, Dad and I would make a quadruple recipe of rice pudding and eat it for breakfast, snacks, and dessert for days. Yum.) Couldn't find the right cookbook (Irma Rombauer's A Cookbook for Girls and Boys), but tracked down a couple of recipes online that, put together, will ( Read more... )

While riding along in Berkeley, I signaled for a left turn, but Pirate wasn't paying attention and plowed right into me. Result: skinned knee, large bruise on left thigh, punched in the lower right abdomen by the end of my handlebars, and a rip in my all-but-brand-new (had them less than a week) B. Spoke Tailor pinstriped wool riding knickers ( Read more... )

To our great pleasure, Pirate and I have been taking advantage of my time off this past week by getting out on the bikes just about every day, including a couple of long rides: Monday we were down in Palo Alto, visiting my folks, and then yesterday we took BART out to Walnut Creek and went riding along the Iron Horse Trail and the Contra Costa ( Read more... )