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Holiday Week Hindsight

So this past week has been one for the ages as far as I’m concerned. Not only is Jon still recovering from knee reconstruction surgery (quite well, but still, he’s got a limited range of available activities) but I managed to do some fun damage over the course of the week: I somehow managed toContinue reading “Holiday Week Hindsight”

Being Prepared – The “Oh Crap” Version

Soooooo Turns out that it doesn’t really matter how prepared you are if you don’t have a table big enough to put all your planned food on, and neither your kitchen counters nor your refrigerator have enough space to hold the food either. Time to switch mental processing hats from “foresight” to “seat-of-pants ingenuity” :x

Happy September

Though, uh, not THIS week, ffs. Our block is enduring some massive construction to fix some pipes, and the streets are torn up and our road is closed. But that’s not the really rough part. The rough part is that things keep going wrong. Monday – We had a marvelous TRUCK parked right outside ourContinue reading “Happy September”

That Trump Statue (And Varying Reactions)

CW: Discussion of current events in the context of certain forms of sexual violence. … I know most people who read this blog already know the statue to which I refer. Skip past the next pgph if you already know. But for those not in the know, and for those who might find this postContinue reading “That Trump Statue (And Varying Reactions)”