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.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: pea shoot pesto with garlic scapes (ingredients from Amy’s farm).

Amy and Dave came over for dinner.

Walked for about 12 miles today.

Watched fireworks at Mom’s last night with Greg and Jocelyn and the kids.

Pulled a bunch of volunteer trees from the front yard — an ash, a madrona, and at least a dozen cherries.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: quiche with chard from Meghan’s garden and garlic scapes from Amy’s farm. Plus the crust was perhaps the least troublesome I’ve ever made.

That was yesterday. Today, without warning, a different tech shows up, disappears for an hour, and then returns announcing the new fiber line has been strung and everything should be working. So far, so good. Still awful service, but I guess I’m supposed to be grateful the outage was only 13 days and not 19?

The ISP’s tech guy figured out that our fiber line was cut, so needed to run a new one, but he couldn’t get the access to a neighbor’s yard that he needed. After some wrangling with support, they promised that somebody would be out next Wednesday again. I have never experienced such awful customer service as this outage with CenturyLink; they have taken the crown from Comcast.

Nathan came over for beers and dinner on Tuesday, and we met with some of his friends to talk about starting up an RPG.

Had Mom over for dinner (grilled salmon) last night.

Drove down to Portland yesterday to spend time with Phil and Wendy and their daughter after Phil’s mother passed away.