Slow week for me. Biggest news is the book in release that I checked for a couple weeks back, without any notice that it was coming till it showed up on my list late Thursday, when I bought it.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
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An explanation of beefsteak tomatoes.
Vintage soup recipes
What does Lent have to do with fast-food fish sandwiches? I know it’s past Easter, but this is interesting.
From Allrecipes: what’s the best fried fish sandwich? Okay, how could I resist?
An Egyptian temple reborn.
Copycat appetizer recipes
A virtual tour of the Galapagos Islands.
Assassin’s spaghetti. The ingredients are pretty simple, the cooking is a bit more complicated than usual.
Octopus riding a shark.
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Something has returned that we thought was finished in dealing with my mother’s estate. I hope it won’t take long to fix, but who knows.
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Unconventional Heroes #5 is out. This is a series where the title of each book begins “Two Necromancers”. Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf; Two Necromancers, an Army of Golems, and a Demon Lord; Two Necromancers a Dragon, and a Vampire; Two Necromancers, a Dwarf Kingdom, and a Sky City; Two Necromancers, a Fortress, and a Titan. There are also two collections of novellas — they are too long to be called short stories. The first collection is The Hungry Dragon Cookie Company, and the second is The Sheep Dragon.
The two necromancers are a Grand Master in his mid-twenties with a good deal of magic and a taste for using shovels as weapons (his secondary talent being earth magic) — that’s Timmy; and his apprentice, who ages from roughly seven to ten in the course of the books — a small for her age, and very powerful girl that everybody thinks is adorable which pisses her off — and that’s Katie. The dragon hatches during one of the books and thinks the elf is his mother. I’m rather fond of the bureaucrat, and the vampire is really something — she’s also the ancestor of one of the more obnoxious (if honorable) secondary characters.
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The pamphlet for our May election has arrived. It’s mostly school board and school district stuff, though also a couple of different water boards.
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