Slow tub week

Since the last time the cleaning lady was here, the tub has been draining very sssssllllllooooowwwwllllllyyyyyy. I have been lazy, not dealing with it yet (hey, I can live with this for a little while, not like having a non-functioning toilet), since I've been lucky enough to have more interesting plans than dealing with pipes. I knew I wasn't going to deal with it until after Shabbat, so decided to take a shower at work today. Luckily I still had the towel there (unused since my last bike commute, over a year ago). The showers are good, with lots of hot water and all, but I'd forgotten the essential weirdness of been naked in my office building, even behind a pair of locked doors.

At least I'm clean for Shabbat...

Shabbat menu

I got home just before 2, only the bread dough started. Candle-lighting is at 3:54 (why am I posting? No clue.). In the interval, I've managed to assemble a meal (with a little help from my leftovers).

challah rolls; chicken baked with rice, tomato, capers, other herbs and spices; a tray of potato and onion slices baking (just because they were there); artichokes; chocolate chip non-cookies (ie I'm too lazy to do cookies, so splat all the dough in a pan and call them bars).

That, with the leftover turkey soup and cranberry sauce, will do reasonably well for Shabbat.

And now I should make sure the timers are set up, put on the hotplate, do all that other stuff. And then off to light the full menorah, and watch it burn.

I'm glad the sun did make it out today.
And, despite the weather, the eruv is up.