02-22-2022, Mom & Eustace’s actual 97th birthday. We are having a snow day, due to the threatened ice storm. The schools are closed, the food pantry is closed, and I’m going to work from home. So right now am “working” in my PJs – messing around with this blog post for now, and soon, … [Read more…]
This week has been freezing and thawing, up to 45° one day, down to single digits the next. Today, Sunday, has the widest range yet – it was 26° when I got up, 51° in late afternoon, and supposed to get al the way back down to freezing by the time I get up tomorrow. … [Read more…]
The February March is an old record by Lou & Peter Berryman, and the title track has lyrics like: “I tell you we’re all gettin’ weary of little SiberiaJeepers enough is enoughI tell you uh-huh I’m okay when it’s 80 in MayBut uh-uh when it’s zero and dark” But that’s what winters used to be … [Read more…]
Quite a few things turned out nicely this weekend. Here they are: First, sourdough ginger cookies, from this Food & Wine recipe, baked on Friday and bagged up to distribute at Grillin’ for Peace, the Savory Sunday benefit. They have no white flour; instead, they’re composed of spelt, rye, and buckwheat. I also made some … [Read more…]
Over the years as web search has taken over, there’s been a lot of talk in the library community – of which I am a member – that even though the information in the systems that libraries provide, like library catalogs and research databases of scholarly articles, is higher quality than what’s on the open … [Read more…]
So I’m in one of those phases when all kinds of little things are going wrong. That I used to think would protect me from the major catastrophes, but now I’m not so sure. Like how we used to joke about Northwest Airlines “Northworst” that they’d lose your luggage and make you late but [probably] … [Read more…]
This week I’m specializing in eating the stuff that nobody else wants. Like Thursday, I made open face cheese-y melt-y things and leftover soup for dinner. We had two soups, some cream of turkey with wild rice soup, and some butternut squash chili. Mark and Maja both opted for the turkey-wild rice, so I had … [Read more…]
We went to Chicago yesterday for an overnight to see the Symphony perform Beethoven, the 8th and 5th symphonies. So popular and a Saturday night, it was a much more mixed-age group than the Friday or Sunday matinees we go to, where in our 60s (oh, and 70s I keep forgetting …) we’re the youngsters … [Read more…]
Oh January. It’s cold, the news is awful, and I’m having a hard time NOT feeling like things are getting worse than ever, as well as personally losing it, lowering my standards. I spent this back to work week feeling like I was hardly working; rather than updating syllabi and getting my online classes up … [Read more…]
I’m officially on winter break at the moment – I took vacation on Wednesday (when we went to Chicago to see a live production of Frozen, that despite my trepidation, and having to get up at 6:30 on a vacation day, turned out to be quite fun) and Thursday, and today is a paid holiday … [Read more…]