Happy new year!
Not much to say tonight. Now that the tooth is no longer inflamed, we can do the holidayish stuff that we had skipped a week and a half ago. This includes shopping, which is actually better right after Christmas IMHO (lower prices, lower incidence of drama).
We’re staying in tonight. The bubbly is chilling in the fridge, and tomorrow’s breakfast (pain au chocolat) is about to start proofing (it needs nine hours). As long as the weather holds, the in-laws are coming over for a belated Yule, with an extra-special dinner ingredient (we may be exchanging gifts, but it’s still New Year’s Day). Since said in-laws don’t care for the taste of black-eyed peas, we’ll be making a chicken spezzatino but with black-eyed peas in place of the usual kidney or cannellini beans.
Met up with bastique and his beloved last night as they passed through. (they’re moving from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, and driving the whooooole way.) Couldn’t stay long — they were trying to overnight in KC, and it was early-dinner-hour when they arrived in STL — but it was nice to actually put a physical presence to the username. (Plus, I got a stack of Wikipedia stickers.)
Crunching kernel on the “bronze” Powerbook G3 I mentioned here earlier. Yup, I got it free, with an AC adapter and second battery to boot. It needs a name, and unfortunately the one that keeps coming to mind is “rupaul”. (Word heard often today was “super” and in researching specs I kept seeing “model”; in installing Portage I had to go for a “snapshot”; lots of going “back to my root[s]” [partition]; and, of course, the translucent keyboard is quite fierce.) Perhaps I should figure out where this laptop’s booty is and put a star on it…
Time for me to stop blogging and gear up for the stroke of midnight and the onset of another election year. Remember: no matter what happens in the days to come, the long arc of history swings upward. (it’s just sometimes too long for us to see its true direction.)
Tags: Food, gay, Geeky, Wikipedia
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Happy New Year Jeem and Fred!
Our New Year traditional meal is pork chops and sauerkraut. It’s a Pennsylvania Dutch good luck meal. I am the designated cook for it so I finally hosted my family in my house for the first time since I moved in 06′
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