That was rough. Luckily, that guy can console himself with money.

These trend pieces are just trolling the rest of humanity, right?

I should write a parody of the wedding article, but using my wedding, with the unexpected historical reenactors, banjo band, and invasion of stinkbugs.

Yes you should

I tried the social security database but had limited success--doesn't help that she had an extremely common name. Apparently there was another woman of the same name (after marriage--who knows her maiden) born the same day and year, also in Chicago, who married a man with the same (even more common) name as my grandfather. But who died like, four years after my grandmother.

I thought my desktop computer was dead, but tonight I managed to boot it and perform a system repair. Now I'm running diagnostics and backing up shit.

In pretty minor but cool to me cooking adventures, I have created a nice little ham and cheese "puff". I had some wonton wrappers in the fridge from an experiment with baked Crab Rangoon (failures are educational), and they were just drying out and more than half the package was left. So I cogitated a bit, bought some ham, cubed it up, stuck wonton wrappers in the cups of my mini muffin pan, put a few cubes of ham in each, dropped a bit of shredded cheese in, then popped in the oven for ten minutes. I think I'll add a bit of green onion to each one next time. Nowhere near haute cuisine, but it pleases me to engineer out something edible from my own head.

Yikes shrift, that's happened to me before. I'm glad you got it reboot.

Good one, Connie.

Thanks, Burrell. I had a total crash less than a year ago, and it was such a huge PITA that I'd like not to go through it again for a little while.

That sounds delicious, Connie!