I made an apple crisp. Does that count?

I made beer. I'm not sure that's "old-fashioned" so much as "ya damn hippie".

Hey, I had a blacksmith at the bar after work! It was nummy. There was a blacksmith once at First Night in Concord, NH who said, while brandishing his fiery poker thingy, that if we gave him a quarter, he'd lick it. Wow, there's a whole lotta innuendo in there!

The hay thing wasn't as fun as the first time I'd done it, on a camping trip where we ended up helping an old farmer next to our tent site and wound up camping for free on his land and getting midnight boatrides on the lake and blackened eggs in the morning and salt cured bacon.

I made beer. I'm not sure that's "old-fashioned" so much as "ya damn hippie".

Those go hand in hand!

The new Sherlock Holmes is about to air here. Anyone else going to be watching?

So very much. Many times.

Hmm. I went to a farm stand. I bought so sort of weird bright red squash. The guy running the stand couldn't remember what it was called, but he said it tasted good, so I figured I'd try it. Also got a cauliflower and some green tomatoes.

I can barely hold myself up to type, I am so tired from my weekend of blacksmithing.

Very nifty!

The new Sherlock Holmes is about to air here. Anyone else going to be watching?

Recording it as I type this.

I will be watching as soon as it goes up on pbs.org. It will be a little weird, because I have listened to about 10 podfics by Fay in this fandom, but have never watched!

I had a blacksmith at the bar after work!

At the bar? Very kinky.

I had an insurance database job once. I ended up with a whole little notebook full of odd names. The one that sticks in my mind was Kosmyk Moses Jones.

Then there was the kid named INXS and the older ladies I worked with were baffled: "Inks-sis?" "Eee-nix?"

I'm packing! Really! Dang. Today was not the day for three hours of hanging with the fam, plus bonus! family drama. My oldest niece thinks she's a rockstar and everyone's lives should center around her. She's used up all her vacation and sick time this year, going round the country with her fave heavy metal bands, and now she needs a half-day off to go to the opening of one of her art shows, and her boss won't let her go. She's all bent out of shape, and my sis and I are all, what the hell did you expect? you used up all your time, so of course we are stupid fuckers who don't get how important this is to her, and her boss hates her and is out to ruin her life. (Her boss does not, in fact, like her at all, and is probably trying to force her to quit, but ISTG I don't blame him. She's a horrible employee.)

So anyway, now it's almost 10pm and I haven't done half what I needed to today, and I'll probably be up half the night when I should be sleeping. I should have just walked away from the whole thing, but then I wouold have been leaving my sister on her own, and she can't deal with it.