My personal life is going fine. I do worry a bit about my grandkids and their father, though. After this morning’s news, maybe I should worry more about myself — even I can’t stay home all the time.
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The citizens of Paris get to help decide what the city’s budget gets spent on.
From Food & Wine: The next trend in craft beer? Me, I will be happy when IPA falls out of fashion — I don’t actively dislike it, but sometimes I want a beer and IPA is all that’s available at the store I’m in. Not happy-making. I’m most fond of oatmeal stout, though I do enjoy other variations on the theme.
There’s a warning out in Portland that ICE agents are impersonating NW Natural Gas employees.
From Allrecipes: Eggs Benedict Breakfast Pizza. I’m one of the few I’m sure of who’s not fond of Eggs Benedict, but this recipe does look interesting.
1440 on rock ‘n’ roll.
From Brodo: Beans and Greens
At one point, Salvador Dali designed Hallmark Christmas cards.
From American Vinegar Works: Olive Chicken & Instant Broccoli
A Picasso portrait, The Two Children, in on public display for the first time.
From Serious Eats: Avgolemono and how to use it
You may have seen this from the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland — a muntjac deer bullying a rhinocerous.
From Allrecipes: One-pot ground turkey pasta
Calming habits that work better than meditation.
From Simply Recipes: How to make vegetable stock
The new state senate district map for Alabama was drawn by an 18-year-old college student.
From The Spruce Eats: Noodles Around the World. This one’s long. Also fascinating — and I do like noodles.
ICE isn’t the Gestapo. That comparison lets America off the hook. Our own history is so firmly against blaming Germany that Germany got their ideas from US. Don’t believe me, look up the history of eugenics.
From Allrecipes: Easy Apple Strudel
Virginia’s lifetime voting ban for certain felony convictions has been ruled illegal.
From Simply Recipes: Spinach Florentine Breakfast Casserole
Ryanair’s “Big Idiot Sale”. This one is fun.
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As you can probably tell, a lot more caught my eye online this week than is usual.
I’m starting to get my 2025 1099 tax forms. I don’t know how many I will get — probably six, but it could be more (four so far). I probably won’t file till sometime in April, but I do need to keep track of the paperwork.
My utilities are paid for the month. Both less than I budgeted, which in winter is not guaranteed.
My daughter had a commitment yesterday afternoon, and the restaurant the kids want to go to only does dinner (I think I recall doing lunch there, but it was before the pandemic lockdown). So we’re going for an early dinner this afternoon.
The news is not good. I will see where I can afford to donate.
Over on BlueSky, I replied to somebody’s post about having made shepherd’s pie (it looked delicious, by the way) by asking if he’d made it with beef, in which case it was cottage pie, since shepherd’s pie called for mutton or lamb. Yes, I read a lot of British mysteries, why do you ask? Anyway, I didn’t think so many people would notice. Ah, well — it’s something to take the mind off what’s going on around the country.
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