From the last week or so
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magidI think I want waterproof, warm, washable (www!) socks, which might let me keep wearing the Keens through the winter*. They seem to exist on the spendy side of the spectrum; does anyone have recommendations for brands to look for or avoid?
* I was wearing what I'd thought were reasonable shoes, since I'd used them for short walks at work, and have had them a while, but apparently standing around at a party/a club for hours, plus dancing, plus 6 miles walking was too much: I ended up with very unhappy feet, which had me thinking about alternate footgear in cold and sometimes wet weather.
Tuesday night I was going through Inman Square, and noticed pale things drifting from on high. Too large and regular to be snow (and though it was cold, there wasn't any precipitation in the forecast), I looked around until I spotted the source: a bubble machine on a ledge outside someone's second floor window. It was right around freezing, so instead of mostly-transparent spheres, they were opaque white spheres drifting down, crashing on the street with a puff of smokiness on the pavement, not shattering into shards. Magical, mysterious.
Also, the moon has been beautiful these last few nights, a waxing crescent moon.
Reminder to self: not enough sleep makes it much more likely to develop a sore throat/cold thing. (Does that mean that they're pretty much out there all the time, and by being stupid and lowering resistance by minimal sleep, I am felled, or I just notice the underslept times that result in sickness? Not sure.) Sleep is useful, not just a time for not accomplishing stuff, so stop being stupid about getting to bed at a reasonable hour.
Monday I went to the last of the food science lectures at Harvard, on the topic of culinary disasters and learning from them. It was a fun lecture, but more anecdotal than useful (though I had time to get the top of a hat crocheted :-). It did get me thinking about my own recent kitchen failures, including the attempts at watermelon liqueur (there's just not enough watermelon flavor; I'm hoping that aging will help, but if not, suggestions for uses are welcome) and the one failed experiment with the TJ's peanut flour, which was as a topping for a fruit crisp. It might have worked if I'd mixed it with other flours or grain flakes, but as it was, it was too dense. On the plus side, the other two things I tried (savory dumplings in a spicy greens and squash stew, in chocolate chip cookies) worked well (though I think the cookies would have been better with chopped peanuts in them as well).
Hanukah featured: candles reflected in the window, home-made latkes (someone else's home), and two surprises (a cake and an Alice calendar), among other things. Note to self: buy more wooden matches, since there's only one left.
* I was wearing what I'd thought were reasonable shoes, since I'd used them for short walks at work, and have had them a while, but apparently standing around at a party/a club for hours, plus dancing, plus 6 miles walking was too much: I ended up with very unhappy feet, which had me thinking about alternate footgear in cold and sometimes wet weather.
Tuesday night I was going through Inman Square, and noticed pale things drifting from on high. Too large and regular to be snow (and though it was cold, there wasn't any precipitation in the forecast), I looked around until I spotted the source: a bubble machine on a ledge outside someone's second floor window. It was right around freezing, so instead of mostly-transparent spheres, they were opaque white spheres drifting down, crashing on the street with a puff of smokiness on the pavement, not shattering into shards. Magical, mysterious.
Also, the moon has been beautiful these last few nights, a waxing crescent moon.
Reminder to self: not enough sleep makes it much more likely to develop a sore throat/cold thing. (Does that mean that they're pretty much out there all the time, and by being stupid and lowering resistance by minimal sleep, I am felled, or I just notice the underslept times that result in sickness? Not sure.) Sleep is useful, not just a time for not accomplishing stuff, so stop being stupid about getting to bed at a reasonable hour.
Monday I went to the last of the food science lectures at Harvard, on the topic of culinary disasters and learning from them. It was a fun lecture, but more anecdotal than useful (though I had time to get the top of a hat crocheted :-). It did get me thinking about my own recent kitchen failures, including the attempts at watermelon liqueur (there's just not enough watermelon flavor; I'm hoping that aging will help, but if not, suggestions for uses are welcome) and the one failed experiment with the TJ's peanut flour, which was as a topping for a fruit crisp. It might have worked if I'd mixed it with other flours or grain flakes, but as it was, it was too dense. On the plus side, the other two things I tried (savory dumplings in a spicy greens and squash stew, in chocolate chip cookies) worked well (though I think the cookies would have been better with chopped peanuts in them as well).
Hanukah featured: candles reflected in the window, home-made latkes (someone else's home), and two surprises (a cake and an Alice calendar), among other things. Note to self: buy more wooden matches, since there's only one left.
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