Congrats, shadowslayer!

This weekend I'm finishing up Christmas shopping and, weather permitting, flying Sunday. The forecast suggests that weather won't be too cooperative, alas.

how it's well-known there's a huge, deadly outbreak in California and I am a huge OMG, get your damn vax proponent for the last several years

Mybrotherthedoctor is an infectious disease specialist, and one thing I learned from him over Thanksgiving is that there were about a thousand deaths in the US in the last year (or maybe that's cumulative since the whole anti-vacc thing started, not sure) of young adults who contracted diseases they should have been vaccinated for as children, but weren't. I had thought that the primary risk from the anti-vacc people was to the children who could not be vaccinated because of their age or other medical issues--but no, the children of the anti-vacc people are paying the price for their parents' beliefs.

As for Perkins' question, I'm going to see the new Narnia movie, and maybe The Tempest (Helen Mirren as Prospera, woot!), and having a birthday dinner with my family. Cake and presents!

It's fucking snowing.

Ugh. On phone with client trying to solve problem with the jackhammer in the background.

Friday! What are people doing this weekend?

Me? I'll be running errands Saturday morning, hoping to beat the snow, then staying home to shovel and worry about Daniel the rest of the day plus Sunday.

Does anyone have an easy but DELICIOUS recipe for chocolate cupcakes? The bakery here wants $30 for a dozen so I'mma bake 'em myself.

It is not snowing in San Francisco.

I don't know what we're doing this weekend. We got the tree up. Probably some xmas shopping but there won't be a lot of that so that's not huge.

Oh! Jen K. and her guy are coming over for dinner on Saturday. And JZ is going over on Saturday afternoon to do a neighborhood cleanup thing with the folks who host game night.

Have we really talked about them much? They're like a group house over in the Inner Sunset neighborhood (next nabe over from us, and where JZ's new church is).

Anyway, they host game night which is free and non-denominational, and they're not selling Amway or Scientology or anything. They just do it to foment community. And they've created all these decorations in the little gardeny plots on the sidewalk with hand made figurines that are very fetching and sweet.

And they did a homemade Haunted House on Halloween.

And they're hosting a neighborhood cleanup.

And here's their tricksy ulterior motive: they want to give back to the local community and help bring people together. Those bastards!

Spidra, there is a good Cook's Illustrated one. I think it may have been posted in natter at some point in the past few years, but I don't have easy access to it at work. You might want to try Googling it.

Anyway, they host game night which is free and non-denominational, and they're not selling Amway or Scientology or anything. They just do it to foment community. And they've created all these decorations in the little gardeny plots on the sidewalk with hand made figurines that are very fetching and sweet.

Did they do a game night this past month? It occurs to me I haven't gotten an email in awhile.

David, sounds like commies to me. Watch out.

Plans for the weekend: media tonight at Calli's if I'm not too zonked, flex reimbursement paperwork (blecch), maybe some Xmas shopping, dog park.