Your current Y the one we went to up to? My Y will open the pool as long as it is over 65 (lowest it has been is 70, and WHOA) and god knows after tournaments where they let the teams use the locker rooms, there is NO hot water left. But that's different than infrastructure stuff. I do wish I'd dithered less today and done more. But I need plans, and all of them got derailed. And I'm still itchy.

Ah well, tomorrow is another day. Without storms, I hope.

I took a nap today, so I'm shot for tonight, but I really really couldn't keep my eyes open. That's the first nap I've taken in forever.

Oops.

You guys have made me crave aubergines (and also made me google to see if I could find why one name for them came to mean purple and one implied white: [link] -- weird) and I swear I'm not into them much. I think it traces back to the lasagne variation my mother used to make every now and again--all to that. I don't recall her having served them any other way.

I've long held the belief that eggplant (and tomatoes and bell peppers) taste nasty to me because they have a little of that nightshade alkaloid in 'em.

Hm. Tomatoes taste like aluminium to me (I've always figured that was a defense mechanism since I am actually allergic.) and I'm not a fan of bell peppers but I do like eggplant (mmmm baba ganoush. I'm afraid your theory does not hold true for me.

My parents just informed me that my dad spent Thursday and much of Friday in the hospital. This is not timely notification, folks. I guess he got up too quickly Thurs morning and passed out, splitting his lip open on a counter on the way down. The hospital admitted him because of a history of A-fib and then he had an A-fib episode during the night. Now he's mostly annoyed that he has a bunch of doctor appointments lined up and can't drive until one of the docs clears him for that.

Oh god, Emmett is going into another growth spurt.

He's cheerfully insanely aggressive and eating eating EATING!!

Here's what he ate today:

Breakfast:

Big bowl of cereal. ("I'm still hungry!")
Two scrambled eggs. ("I'm still hungry!")
Another bowl of cereal. ("I'm still hungry!")

Late lunch (after baseball practice):

Cheeseburger ("I'm still hungry!")
Large smoothie ("I'm still hungry!")
Quesadilla ("I'm still hungry!")
Two coconut strawberry pancakes with butter and syrup ("Okay I'm full.")

An hour later..."I'm hungry!"

Another smoothie.

That's gotta be what? 8,000 calories?

He's going to be six foot fucking two at this rate.

Heh -- my little cousin (15) is already 6'2". I can't even imagine.

How old and how tall is he now, Hec?

My 12 yr old nephew reached 6' this summer. I took a picture of a sign in a parking garage (Height Restriction 7'7") to send to him.

He's 14?

I cannot afford teenagers with all their growing. It is ridiculous.

That sounds amazing, Kat, what all did you make?

I froze my chicken stock. It came out really well. I want to do the fish stock tomorrow, but the house probably shouldn't stink of fish when the bank inspector people come over.

I didn't finish the office today, but I got it down to a point where if the lady called to say she was on her way over, I could shove everything left into the remaining empty bins. I am somewhat dubious of the amount of work it will take to go through everything properly, but if I were able to do it, I could start the school year clean.

How old and how tall is he now, Hec?

He turns 16 in September. He's already six feet tall. Maybe a little more.

What I made:

Each batch has 4-6 servings.

3 batches of cajun chicken (will be grilled or baked)
1 batch of jumbalaya (to be baked)
2 batches of garlic and parsley chicken, with breadcrumbs (to be sauteed)
1 batch of honey lime chicken (to be baked or grilled)
2 batches of parmesan crusted chicken (to be baked or grilled)
2 batches of herb crusted pork chops (to be baked or grilled)
3 trays of black bean and beef tortilla casserole with bonus hatch chiles from the freezer (to be baked). Each tray is probably 2 meals.
1 batch of herb crusted flank steak, to be grilled tomorrow.