I want cookies! And I'd be willing to make some but I have no mixer and I'm not creaming butter and sugar by hand. But tomorrow I'm going to make some spiced applesauce muffins.

I.... have never heard of that before. It never in all my life occurred to me that there was an alternative to the hand cramps.

Thanks, all, for understanding. They'll trickle out.

Nostalgia. I met him in 1990. His house was legendary; proper Bostonian gourmand who took in students,bohemian,radical, whatever, as long as you were imaginative, creative, smart, or intellectually passionate or any combo thereof. We spent too much time at his house, talking about everything under the sun.

He introduced me to foie gras and Sauternes, among other things. Nina Simone and Etta James -- heard them for the first time there.

Sad news, strixy. I'm sorry.

Good job, Ryan! And nice to see you Miracleman!

ION, I am quite quie inebriated. How have we not all-you-can drink karaoke-ed? Seems like a bitchish thing to do. What kind of kir is plum wine and champagne? It's avery delisious one whatever its called.

catching up on the interwebs and then to eat chocolate coupcakes and watch downton. SCORE!

I 'm sorry, strix.

yeah - I can live with the noise , but don't love it. Matt tends to yet at news and political commentary. I remind him that the little people in the box can't hear him. If I had said that to my father , I would have gotten in somesort of trouble. At the very least there would have been more yelling

chocolate coupcakes

Every revolution should serve these.

:)

Strix, sorry for your loss. Please do tell more stories.

MIRACLEMAN!!! Great to see your pixels. Hope to see more of you around here!

Today was a loong day. I got to work at 8:30am, left at 9:42pm. Most of it on my feet. Exhausted. A lot accomplished at work. And on the whole, it went well. And everyone was in good disposition. Great success. Tomorrow, I'll be helping M&C again with their new house. They have about 9 more days to finish renovations AND move out of the old place. While working full time jobs. Oy. They got their hands full. Haven't been over in about a week. Excited to see how much they have done in that time.

Are we discussing Downton Abbey anywhere? And why is the rest of the internet so stupid?

I'm up at 5 in the morning because, 45 minutes ago, I saw my faux-brother off on his Inaugural adventure.

Not his first adventure, of course, but his 'I'm leaving at 4:30 to get down to the Mall and get a reaaally good place to stand so that I an take excellent pictures and fulfill a dream I've been having for 4 years,' adventure.

Bless him. The idea of standing around for 6 hours before anything even gets started...in 35 degrees...makes me want to...well, go back to bed!

Though, I do admire his stout heart and wish him a grand affair with many interesting strangers and excellent photos. He is a semi-pro, award-winning photog, so I have faith in his ability to make the most of the time.

I had a momentary fantasy of tossing on some clothes and taking Cagney out to walk part way with the faux-bro, but in his innocent wisdom, Cagney went out to pee and ran right back into his crate. "Close the door woman, it's not eyes open time! What's the matter with you bald apes anyway!!?"

Strix, my mentor/adviser professed so much more than what he taught in classes. We were very, very different people, but his worldview is so much a part of mine...these mumbletyyears later...that I sort of can't imagine being me without him.

As much as I feel that I am so different (read that with a little sarcasm) now, he is still at the front of my mind when I think about certain things.

Little phrases of his, factoids and facial expressions, they pop into my aspect more often than I tend to notice on the fly.

I'm glad you had that relationship and I am sorry for your loss of the person, but if you are anything like me...and I think you are...his legacy lives on strongly in you...and the others who loved him so. No teacher of any kind could really ask for more.

Trudy, there's been some chat about it in Natter.

And why is the rest of the internet so stupid?

You have to ask this question after all this time? Please.