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shadowkat1. Woo-hoo! The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin (The Ill-mannered Ladies Book 2) by Allison Goodman has finally come out and is on sale at Amazon for $2.99 (Kindle Deal). I grabbed immediately. The first book ended on a cliff-hanger. It had been rec'd to me by a college friend who jumps in and out of my life, and resides in DC. We've not seen each other in years, but have corresponded over email during the pandemic, albeit briefly. I decided to send a quick email her way - to let her know it came out and was on sale. She'll probably never get it. But who knows.
Also grabbed The Violin Conspiracy for $1.99 - although this might be an audio book credit? It has violin music!! And if I can listen to violin music along with narration...
It's described as Queen's Gambit but with classical music and violins.
2. John Scalzi shares the Pond Rules from his local nature preserve in Ohio:
"The things you see at local parks...
Do not disturb the pond witch
Also don't ...feed the weretrout, if a hand comes out to beckon you? Walk away and don't look back, and those aren't ducks, run.
Scalzi: You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
3. Discovered Vita Mahjong as a new game on my phone - I appear to be good at it? It won't last long. I play puzzle games for about a year, then they want money from me, and I stop playing. Redecor lasted almost ten years, but I had to pay for it, and eventually got tired of it, and tired of spending money on a game that people vote on and is incredibly subjective.
I am not a vidder - hand/eye coordination skills are horrific, and you need good hand/eye to be a vidder. Also I like the puzzle games more? I did play a Grand Prix race track game - but it gave me anxiety, so I stopped finally, also again - rigged? You can play it for free up to a point, then they want you to spend money on upgrading your car in the game.
I swear video games like to nickle and dime me to death, which is why I rarely play them. My mother has jumped from bridge to Mahjong which she likes more. She has her own tiles, own game set, everything. And they play at each other's houses.
4. I got my pies! Got them from Meredith's Bakery at the Farmer's Market. Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving to me without pie.
Meredith's makes gluten free items. Of course the non-gluten free pies outnumbered the gluten free ten to 1. I picked up two small or one to two person individual pies - a pumpkin and a pecan for about $20. Not bad. It was right across the street from my work place. I got to workplace at 7:35 am, I walked across the street, bought the pies, walked back, went into the building, and clocked in by 7:40 am. I need to be there by 8 am. I had time to spare.
I get custard now, because store bought gluten-free fruit pies are gross and extremely high in sugar, also kind of tasteless? And have more sugar than the custard pies. They tend to put brown sugar in the crumble at the top, and use frozen fruit or canned fruit, with too much gelatin. With apple - you need to use tart apples or it's tasteless. My mother made fantastic fruit pies when I was growing up with pie crackers (basically dough divided into squares and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar). This was obviously before I found out my IBS was caused by celiac disease. (I never had the severe symptoms other people have - or I'd have discovered it a lot sooner.) Her pie dough was excellent. She used milk instead of water, and crisco/butter combined. They were flaky.
One exception? I have a wild blueberry pie pocket in the freezer - it's small and I got it awhile ago.
But hey? Pies! I love pie! I look forward to the fall for well...pie! Particularly pumpkin pie!
That and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - on television. (I won't go watch it - even if it is only forty-five minutes away - it's cold, and I can't see the Broadway show performances well.) NYC is parade happy - we have parades for every single Holiday and even make up occasions to have parades. NYC feels bereft if it isn't having a parade at least twice a month. If it doesn't? Don't worry, it'll find something to replace it with.
Crazy city likes parades.
Well, I also liked the leaves turning colors.
At any rate, kind of glad I didn't try to get them yesterday - got a better deal today. If I'd gotten it at Union or Trader Joes, it would have cost more, and been bigger. Also frozen.
Also grabbed The Violin Conspiracy for $1.99 - although this might be an audio book credit? It has violin music!! And if I can listen to violin music along with narration...
It's described as Queen's Gambit but with classical music and violins.
2. John Scalzi shares the Pond Rules from his local nature preserve in Ohio:
"The things you see at local parks...
Do not disturb the pond witch
Also don't ...feed the weretrout, if a hand comes out to beckon you? Walk away and don't look back, and those aren't ducks, run.
Scalzi: You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
3. Discovered Vita Mahjong as a new game on my phone - I appear to be good at it? It won't last long. I play puzzle games for about a year, then they want money from me, and I stop playing. Redecor lasted almost ten years, but I had to pay for it, and eventually got tired of it, and tired of spending money on a game that people vote on and is incredibly subjective.
I am not a vidder - hand/eye coordination skills are horrific, and you need good hand/eye to be a vidder. Also I like the puzzle games more? I did play a Grand Prix race track game - but it gave me anxiety, so I stopped finally, also again - rigged? You can play it for free up to a point, then they want you to spend money on upgrading your car in the game.
I swear video games like to nickle and dime me to death, which is why I rarely play them. My mother has jumped from bridge to Mahjong which she likes more. She has her own tiles, own game set, everything. And they play at each other's houses.
4. I got my pies! Got them from Meredith's Bakery at the Farmer's Market. Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving to me without pie.
Meredith's makes gluten free items. Of course the non-gluten free pies outnumbered the gluten free ten to 1. I picked up two small or one to two person individual pies - a pumpkin and a pecan for about $20. Not bad. It was right across the street from my work place. I got to workplace at 7:35 am, I walked across the street, bought the pies, walked back, went into the building, and clocked in by 7:40 am. I need to be there by 8 am. I had time to spare.
I get custard now, because store bought gluten-free fruit pies are gross and extremely high in sugar, also kind of tasteless? And have more sugar than the custard pies. They tend to put brown sugar in the crumble at the top, and use frozen fruit or canned fruit, with too much gelatin. With apple - you need to use tart apples or it's tasteless. My mother made fantastic fruit pies when I was growing up with pie crackers (basically dough divided into squares and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar). This was obviously before I found out my IBS was caused by celiac disease. (I never had the severe symptoms other people have - or I'd have discovered it a lot sooner.) Her pie dough was excellent. She used milk instead of water, and crisco/butter combined. They were flaky.
One exception? I have a wild blueberry pie pocket in the freezer - it's small and I got it awhile ago.
But hey? Pies! I love pie! I look forward to the fall for well...pie! Particularly pumpkin pie!
That and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - on television. (I won't go watch it - even if it is only forty-five minutes away - it's cold, and I can't see the Broadway show performances well.) NYC is parade happy - we have parades for every single Holiday and even make up occasions to have parades. NYC feels bereft if it isn't having a parade at least twice a month. If it doesn't? Don't worry, it'll find something to replace it with.
Crazy city likes parades.
Well, I also liked the leaves turning colors.
At any rate, kind of glad I didn't try to get them yesterday - got a better deal today. If I'd gotten it at Union or Trader Joes, it would have cost more, and been bigger. Also frozen.
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