After about eight months plus an extra week's detour into "the problem is that the original contractors were doofii", we once again have a proper source of hot water. New Tank is actually smart enough to sort-of explain when it doesn't like something, moreover, hence the detour when the meaning of an intermittent error light turned out to be that ( Read more... )

I made the mistake of reading the recipe on the back of the Cheap Yellow Mustard this morning:

"Sloppy Joes"
(paraphrasing for copyright reasons)

package of buns
ketchup
Cheap Yellow Mustard
onions
meat

Fry meat and mix in all ingredients except the buns (emphasis added).

Umm, I'm the first to admit that I can't exactly cook, as such, but I ( Read more... )

It occurred to me the other night that this is actually the longest stretch of my life that I've ever lived in one place.

Still never had that housewarming party...

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I kept meaning to write a holiday episode of Trevor and Jason, but it just never came together. Have some of the spanakopita that Inner Jason stress-baked instead:


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Well, dammit, I finally get a chance at something resembling a vacation and y'all go and let the final sign of the Apocalypse happen while I was out of town. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

Not dead as of yet, just feeling very very meh about what passes for my life, but that isn't News. But this is News, so I shall post it: my raspberry bushes, which are apparently fall-bearing varieties, finally produced more than a couple of berries at one go:


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It struck me that a bit in the most recent installment of "Trevor & Jason" had a potentially problematic reading. So I gave it some thought, and came up with a revision that I think/hope gets to the same place that the narrative needs to go, without the detour into "um, wait, or did they mean..." of the initial version. So. Live, learn, rinse, ( Read more... )

Still picking away at the worldbuilding on Sekrit Project, and I think I've got a handle on the Suicide By Cop -- now all I need to work out is why the kindergarten teacher has the gun in the first place ( Read more... )

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