Fourth of July was a Tuesday this year which made a week where Monday felt like Friday and Tuesday felt like Sunday and Wednesday felt like Monday all over again. And, since June 30, the Friday before, was my last official day in the office, this odd week was my first week of retirement. On … [Read more…]
We have a pick up compost service and I’m supposed to leave the bucket out for them by 8:00AM on Sundays (I think they do restaurant and commercial customers during the week, so do individual homes on Sundays). On October 2 I forgot to leave the bucket out, then on October 9 they skipped us. … [Read more…]
… in my last post. Friday was a work from home day, but I didn’t have any meetings until noon, so I started the day with a bike ride through the Arb, stopping by the library to pick up a hold book and return a cookbook that I decided to buy, finally swinging by Penzey’s. … [Read more…]
So here it is Saturday again; this time last Saturday I was heading for the Urgent Care. More on that in a minute. People are starting to come back to campus. Monday was my department’s annual faculty & staff retreat, and there’s a lot of moving going on in the neighborhoods where lots of students … [Read more…]
So, last week was kind of funny, because we got back from the library conference on Wednesday. I worked some on Wednesday afternoon, then full days Thursday – including going to campus to volunteer for the book sale – and Friday, and then it was the holiday weekend. Saturday I wore myself out on food … [Read more…]
I seem incapable of writing a full length post, but here’s a new muffin recipe. I haven’t tasted a cooked one yet, but the batter I licked off my fingers while I was making them was delicious. Totally gratuitous text added so that you will see “read more” in the listing of posts, and not … [Read more…]
I’ve even been eating breakfast at my computer, which I had pretty much stopped doing during this long work from home period. I stand at my computer so eating there seems pretty uncivilized. In the office, I would do it sometimes, and way back at the beginning of pandemic, I mirrored that behavior (pic below … [Read more…]
I, like everyone else, am feeling uncertain about how to emerge from isolation and rejoin un-masked society, as the pandemic seems to be ending. The last couple weeks I’ve been feeling really awkward – like heading out for a walk in the morning thinking, “is it OK I’m doing this? I must look weird … … [Read more…]
So, way back at the beginning of pandemic, I made these long rise whole wheat English muffins from the Washington Post. Then in June I tried out some sourdough ones, using a King Arthur recipe. They came out way too big, but were really good for egg sangwiches. So, now – in October – I … [Read more…]