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Mar. 24th, 2020 08:13 pm There sure are a lot more people posting regularly in the last week! (Myself included.) My work day started with me being rather snappish in some email responses to my "we can't agree on a corrective action--we can't even agree whether to have a corrective action" group. Nobody got very huffy with me in response, although one person did say that he agreed with everything I'd said *except* for characterizing his position as "I'm fine with the status quo and having other people do pointless make-work because of it." On the other hand, I officially submitted two investigations for final review today, which are my two oldest.
Today's promised rain started just when I opened up the garage door to take my bike out at lunch. I never, ever complain about the rain. (Not even in Spain or on the plain.) But I'm glad I was 15 minutes late in taking lunch and didn't get hit with it halfway out on my loop. It was solidly drenching by the time my work day was done, so no yard work, but no needing to water the new plants either. I got some LHMP reading done over lunch instead. In theory I'm going to do some more as soon as I finish posting this, but I may read the new Decameron Project story instead.
Breakfast was the last English muffin with bacon-quince jam*, a slice of bacon, and a tomato-cheese omelette with some of the lamb drippings to temper the egg. Lunch was salad with surimi, tomatoes, dill pickles*, and a sprinkling of shredded orange peel*. Dinner was lentils cooked in chicken broth, with the Estates requirement being fulfilled by the herbs* in the broth. I also baked a couple of ready-to-bake chocolate chip cookies as an afternoon snack, but had the usual problem with temperature regulation in my toaster oven and the result was only passable. I guess if I want afternoon cookies I need to do a full batch in the regular oven and simply be self-controled about consuming them. (Ha!) I also carved the rest of the lamb off the bone for later use and set the bones simmering with onions and herbs* to make more broth. I have an atavistic fondness for making soup from scratch that way.
*Produce of My Estates
The mail included my recent impulse buy of Nimatnama (15th c recipes from India), which for some unaccountable reason had been wrapped in 5 separate layers of bubble-mailing-envelope. Well, at least it arrived in perfect condition!
Helped a friend track down connections in relation to a recording made at an early Darkovercon over the course of a couple fb conversations, once again proving the power of the internet. (Though he also pointed out that the chain of logic I used for identifying the most likely information source sounded a lot like my description of what I do for a living. He's not wrong.)
I've been watching all my planned trips and events for the next couple months disappear from the calendar and thinking, "When I said I wanted to take some vacation this year that didn't involve going anywhere or doing anything, this wasn't exactly what I had in mind." But I'm thinking that when the end of May rolls around, I should take some vacation time even if I am just staying home. Who knows what we'll all be doing at the end of May.
I've been thinking about Sunday's chat with the DISTAFF crew and thinking it would be nice to set up some more online video chats, just to avoid stewing in my own juices too much. Online life tends to be unsynchronized, so it's hard to know where to start.
Today's promised rain started just when I opened up the garage door to take my bike out at lunch. I never, ever complain about the rain. (Not even in Spain or on the plain.) But I'm glad I was 15 minutes late in taking lunch and didn't get hit with it halfway out on my loop. It was solidly drenching by the time my work day was done, so no yard work, but no needing to water the new plants either. I got some LHMP reading done over lunch instead. In theory I'm going to do some more as soon as I finish posting this, but I may read the new Decameron Project story instead.
Breakfast was the last English muffin with bacon-quince jam*, a slice of bacon, and a tomato-cheese omelette with some of the lamb drippings to temper the egg. Lunch was salad with surimi, tomatoes, dill pickles*, and a sprinkling of shredded orange peel*. Dinner was lentils cooked in chicken broth, with the Estates requirement being fulfilled by the herbs* in the broth. I also baked a couple of ready-to-bake chocolate chip cookies as an afternoon snack, but had the usual problem with temperature regulation in my toaster oven and the result was only passable. I guess if I want afternoon cookies I need to do a full batch in the regular oven and simply be self-controled about consuming them. (Ha!) I also carved the rest of the lamb off the bone for later use and set the bones simmering with onions and herbs* to make more broth. I have an atavistic fondness for making soup from scratch that way.
*Produce of My Estates
The mail included my recent impulse buy of Nimatnama (15th c recipes from India), which for some unaccountable reason had been wrapped in 5 separate layers of bubble-mailing-envelope. Well, at least it arrived in perfect condition!
Helped a friend track down connections in relation to a recording made at an early Darkovercon over the course of a couple fb conversations, once again proving the power of the internet. (Though he also pointed out that the chain of logic I used for identifying the most likely information source sounded a lot like my description of what I do for a living. He's not wrong.)
I've been watching all my planned trips and events for the next couple months disappear from the calendar and thinking, "When I said I wanted to take some vacation this year that didn't involve going anywhere or doing anything, this wasn't exactly what I had in mind." But I'm thinking that when the end of May rolls around, I should take some vacation time even if I am just staying home. Who knows what we'll all be doing at the end of May.
I've been thinking about Sunday's chat with the DISTAFF crew and thinking it would be nice to set up some more online video chats, just to avoid stewing in my own juices too much. Online life tends to be unsynchronized, so it's hard to know where to start.
