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[magid]

MA-folks: I was looking over the ballot questions that will be voted on November 2, and realized I don't really understand Question 2, about low-income housing variances. I think it has to do with minimizing paperwork to allow variances that would result in more low-income housing, but I suspect I'm missing something. Anyone understand this one enough to tell me more?

Best typo recently: yard sail. Not sure whether that's a physical sail (thereby allowing more vertical yard, useful in urban situations! :-), or the act of going for a sail using one's yard. If so, I suspect those people out in the suburbs would have to get large-yard sailing permits.

I saw a bus with two people in it, the sign on front reading "Instruction." First time I've seen that. I'd never thought about how bus drivers learn their routes; I guess I assumed that there'd be a mentor on the ride, but otherwise, it would be a regular bus in service. It seems a bit wasteful otherwise.

Annoying: a sore throat. Soothing: hot tea with local honey, and mushroom-barley soup enhanced with wheat-barley bread crumbs (too much barley flour: it's tending towards crumbling anyway) and thin slices of Brie. Unfortunately, it's not possible to be constantly sucking down liquids... But happily, it passed after a couple of days.

Pepper play: pickled hot peppers, marinated red peppers, and stuffed poblano peppers (with brown rice, raisins, sunflower seeds, roasted tomatoes, pecorino-romano, and topped with herbed mozzarella). I still have some mini bell peppers left....

Link sausage:

• Blog post: the disease of perfection, which I very much can relate to.
  
• Pictures: photos of Russia from a century ago... in color! (I'm fond of #16, for obvious reasons. And I find the clothing fascinating.)
  
• Video: Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned (watch before bashing based on title, please!)
  
• Music video: Janelle Monáe's Tightrope
  
• MP3: (aka most recent music obsession) Mount Kimbie's Before I Move Off (though I find that his music seems to stop, rather than end*.)
  * Which of course makes me think of Lipman's The Chatterlings.
  
• ETA 1520: Some amazing maps of Europe from a variety of social/nationalistic perspectives; incredibly funny.

Comments

[cellio]

Yard sails come from ship-yards, I hope. :-)

Ooh, the peppers sound yummy.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yard sails come from ship-yards, I hope. :-)

Oh, well done!

I haven't tried any of the peppers yet; I hope they came out well. (Ditto the 16 pints of pickled beets that happened today, with more in the offing....)

[cellio]

I meant to tell you that I both began and ended the yamim nora'im with your applesauce -- had it for Rosh Hashana dinner and broke the fast with the last of it. Yummy!

(Do you want the jars back? Their kashrut is intact.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! So glad they were to your taste!

(If the jars come back, that's great, but it's not worth paying for shipping them; a case of pints is under $10, and glass is heavy.)

[cellio]

Ok, cool -- didn't know they were that inexpensive. If either of us remembers we can see if a Pennsic path works next summer, and if not then I won't worry about it.