The absurd thing is it’s apparently going to be warmer in Denver today (where my friend headed back to) than in Palm Springs! Still warmer here than Seattle though. And more daylight hours.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Dec 23, 2025 10:01:56 am PST #10718 of 10880
-t - Dec 23, 2025 10:12:13 am PST #10719 of 10880
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Got it, dcp, thank you! I think that probably makes two PDFs (maybe three) and one hardcopy that I have stashed various places, which should increase the chances of me actually being able to find one when I want it. This one is going into the obvious place where I look first...
It is not supposed to rain here until, like, 11 PM! We're under a flood watch and high wind advisory until Friday, so I was not expecting this.
erikaj - Dec 23, 2025 10:13:09 am PST #10720 of 10880
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
we're prob getting rain. I'm kind of glad...it's been too warm. Pleasant, yet kind of creepy at the same time, right?
erikaj - Dec 23, 2025 10:18:25 am PST #10721 of 10880
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
cereal: and if you're thinking that describes both me AND the Phoenix suburbs from which I sprung in general, you're not fully wrong.
-t - Dec 23, 2025 11:56:21 am PST #10722 of 10880
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I was gonna demur that you aren't creepy, erika, but then I remembered that the Addams Family theme song says they are so in that sense, I guess we all are
Hey, our vending machine has Chex Mix! Not in 25-lb bags. That would not work well.
Hil R. - Dec 23, 2025 12:00:12 pm PST #10723 of 10880
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm in NJ now, mostly just hanging out and watching the snow. Trying to get some work done -- I need to record a bunch of new calculus videos before the new semester starts.
Dana - Dec 23, 2025 12:16:41 pm PST #10724 of 10880
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
It's 79 today in New Orleans.
Laura - Dec 23, 2025 1:08:25 pm PST #10725 of 10880
Our wings are not tired.
Same here as New Orleans, but super windy with big waves out there.
-t - Dec 23, 2025 5:07:03 pm PST #10726 of 10880
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I need to make a correction, Italian Delight is *not* from I Hate to Cook, it’s just something my grandmother (who was not Italian, Grandpa was) made. My mom thinks she clipped the recipe out of a magazine. They ate it very often when mom was a kid. I learned to make it off the index card my mom had copied the recipe to.
It’s a little different from your recipe, dcp. Not sure if that’s because my grandmother’s recipe was different or because my mom changed it before she wrote her copy
dcp - Dec 23, 2025 5:47:09 pm PST #10727 of 10880
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Recipes are just guidelines....
I am fond of the Justin Wilson quote: "What do you put in it? Whatever you got."