I’m home, not going anywhere. I have done this all but once in the time since I’ve paid attention to the route. I was in dire need of groceries that time, and there was a way to get out without interfering with the Marathon. Not worth the trouble when I don’t need anything I don’t already have.
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1440: Stand-up comedy
From Allrecipes: Mexican versus Tex-Mex
From The Guardian: Who invented bratwurst?
One pot Tuscan shrimp and orzo recipe
A travel article from The Atlantic about The Tale of Genji.
From Allrecipes: How to use anchovies
How to build a medieval castle.
From Brodo: Soup season recipes
The best burger in every state, according to Reader’s Digest.
From Real Simple: How long to cook pasta, based on the shape
This is from August, actually — I only just noticed it. Lithuania has an annual international corgi race.
From Eating Well: “Melting” vegetable recipes
How rivers work.
From Southern Living: 75 easy appetizers
From Kite and Key media: How the world is getting better.
Food & Wine: The world’s best pizzerias. Unfortunately, no recipes
1440: How labor unions work.
Simply Recipes: 22 Dump Dinners
NPR: Hurricanes kill many more people than are ever officially counted.
Poking around the internet, found this in IFLScience: Researchers dropped gophers inside a fenced area on Mount St Helens not long after the eruption and left them alone for a whole day. Forty years later, results are still discernible.
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It’s been a week. It will be a while before I know how the government shutdown affects me — there is only the Social Security that involves the feds where I’m concerned, and I’m pretty sure my daughter is paid from state funding. The notice I saw said Social Security will mostly not be affected, and I still think my daughter is paid from state funding.
Sign from a demonstration last Sunday: “PORTLAND ISN’T A WARZONE. It’s a bookstore w/ a city around it.”
I got a call the other day from my financial advisor — it seems that the IRA I inherited from my mother that had to be cashed out within ten years (two years ago) has more in it now than it did when it started. This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened — my PERS account took six years to get below the beginning amount.
I’ve been hearing a helicopter for a couple of days now. I guess I’m more or less directly across the river from the ICE facility.
Oh, yes. I’ve been forgetting to mention this. Delusion season is in full swing here. Every time I’ve gone out my back door in the past couple of weeks, there have been spider webs blocking the way. I don’t think the spiders are big enough to catch and keep me, I really don’t.
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