Today’s kitchen victory: the dude made tzatziki.

Finished reading Duck Season by David McAninch, about the food and culture of Gascony. I’m slow at reading this kind of book, and I had other things that distracted me, but I loved the writing, and need to try cooking various Gascon dishes.

We went down to Portland Oregon City for an overnight trip to visit our recently-departed neighbors.

Hiked maybe ⅗︎ of the way up Mt. Teneriffe this morning, before I decided I wasn’t in as good shape as I’d hoped. There’s a Metro bus that runs from Capitol Hill to the Mt. Teneriffe and Mt. Si trailheads on summer weekends.

Making it all the way up Teneriffe and Si on consecutive days wouldn’t be bad practice for the Alpine section of the E5, which I haven’t walked.

Finished rereading The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian, book 17 of the Aubrey/Maturin series. Features a grim description of one of the less-awful ships in the Atlantic slavery trade.

I’ve made some improvements to my commonplace book — what I’m calling my link posts — and I have a few weeks of new posts queued, one every evening.

Yesterday was a bus adventure with the bambina: to the cat cafe on Capitol Hill, then the aquarium and the wheel on the waterfront, and then back up to Capitol Hill for ice cream.

Finished reading Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel. I enjoyed it, though I was quite tired of some of the characters by the end of the book. The story had a couple coincidental meetings that were even less plausible than some in Station Eleven — we’ll see if this is a recurring motif in her work.

Alas, this means that all older posts are marked “(edited)”, but I find it hard to care very much. Maybe I’ll fix it in the next week or so? Okay, fine, I fixed it (by making sure to preserve timestamps when using rsync to copy the source files, and not using git to repopulate the files).

Moving various pile.org sites (including this one) to a new server (at the same host).

Walked to the farmers’ market, maybe 3½ miles. Meghan met me there.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: fresh ricotta.

Meanwhile, the dude and I watched a few episodes of Arcane (his recommendation; quite good, but I might not watch more on account of too much grim in the dark), and The Hunt for Red October (my recommendation; holds up well, except for certain special effects which were a stretch even by 1990 standards).

Meghan and the bambina went camping on Whidbey Island with Katie and her son. They came back Very Tired.

Got my second covid booster yesterday. I haven’t felt any side-effects yet; with the previous three doses, I’d’ve felt under the weather by now.