Blurt!Sben

Went to the Flower and Garden Festival with Meghan again.

Sat., Feb. 22, 2025, 8:52:28pm PST

Sent out a couple more resumes, hopefully (and seemingly?) easier each time.

Thu., Feb. 20, 2025, 10:34:38pm PST

Tonight’s kitchen victory: pasta with quick-’n’-easy meat sauce, and roasted broccoli: the first time using the new range.

Thu., Feb. 13, 2025, 6:41:13pm PST
Fried rice in a wok, on a grubby gas stove.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: fried rice, the last batch I’ll cook on this stove, which has served us well for 20 years.

Mon., Feb. 10, 2025, 5:45:52pm PST

Current earworm: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys.

Mon., Feb. 10, 2025, 11:26:03am PST

Played Magic last night with Greg, his son, and the dude.

Sun., Feb. 9, 2025, 11:48:11pm PST

Got another few inches of snow last night, probably the last for a while.

Sat., Feb. 8, 2025, 10:00:27am PST

We got snow showers over the course of the day yesterday, then 3″ overnight. The bambina has had only one partial day of school so far this week.

Thu., Feb. 6, 2025, 8:28:58am PST

Finished reading The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, followup to The Bear and the Nightingale. I enjoyed this one, too, and it had more consistent drive than the first, but Arden relied on a particular plot contrivance trope a little too often for my taste.

Tue., Feb. 4, 2025, 7:45:01am PST

There was a dusting of snow yesterday, and then maybe a half inch to an inch overnight, enough at least to delay school (though the bambina is sick).

Mon., Feb. 3, 2025, 7:43:52am PST

Meghan and I saw the dude this afternoon.

Sat., Feb. 1, 2025, 9:09:28pm PST

Brief snow this morning; pretty, and no accumulation.

Sat., Feb. 1, 2025, 9:09:05pm PST

Touched up my resume and sent it off this evening, the most job-searching-like activity I’ve done in 14 years.

Fri., Jan. 31, 2025, 10:13:05pm PST

Finished reading The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. This book managed the neat trick of being, simultaneously, a sci-fi novel, a thriller, and a romance novel, and pretty good at all three.

Sometimes I entertain myself by explaining today’s world to Samuel Pepys. This book has taken some of that work off my shoulders, for a little while.

Wed., Jan. 29, 2025, 11:09:15pm PST

Feels like every day I put another tally mark in the column for “move out to a cabin and write screeds”.

Wed., Jan. 29, 2025, 5:40:40pm PST