I am confused by people today. Someone in a vegan food group posted a photo of some vegan "ribs" she made. Pretty much just a block of seitan with seasonings, grilled. It looked pretty good. Anyway, someone commented that she didn't like foods that are made to look like meat. Which, OK, whatever. But then her examples of foods that she'd prefer: veggie burgers and veggie sausage. Which she is now insisting have nothing at all to do with meat, while veggie ribs are clearly gross because they look like meat.

People are certainly peculiar.

You'll be looking at the faucet a long time, brenda, get the one you love! Disclaimer: my kitchen faucet is the cheap-ass one that came with the utility sink in the garage (there's a faucet set into the wall out there so that sink didn't need a faucet) BUT I love it and it makes me happy to use it.

That is weird, Hil.

Get what you love, Brenda! It will make you happy when you use it. (Though this is part of my issue with the Marie Kondo school--the clothing pieces that bring me "joy" are really not necessarily the ones I actually need or tend to wear. I mean, sure, the goldfish-patterned knee socks are great, but sometimes a girl just needs boring black socks that don't inspire joy but do go well with the shoes and outfit?)

I have eaten breakfast and coffeed, and am now needing to get my ass in gear and pack (and hopefully run a work report thing that wasn't functioning on Friday afternoon). Don't wanna, though. But I have to leave in an hour to make my flight.

You've convinced me. I will do at least an hour of work and then go reward myself.

Plan for today: do all the things. (So far, bring a carload of stuff to new house, scrub walls of half the living room, grocery shop, mourn lack of including lunch in the grocery shopping.)

The kids have been pounced on by 2 10 year old girls on the block, and they're having a bake sale (involving fudge, which isn't baked, but whatevs.) So far I know of 5 10 year olds on the block: Julia, Lily, Ava, Olivia, and John (the last 2 are twins.)

B5 fans: Check out Paul Krugman's blog [link] (I suspect this was a suggestion by Krugman, who studied economics because it was the closest he could get to Asimov's psychohistory.)

So far. I just woke up

It's a small thing to miss, but in the old house we had finally found kitchen and bath faucets we liked that really worked, and I loved them. We replaced the kitchen one here when we moved in, but the holes don't line up right to install the ones I really loved. Kitchen faucet, it's a must to have one high enough to fill tall pots, and we did get one, but it doesn't have the elegant curve of the one we had before. And the bath one is just standard faceted plastic "crystal" hot and cold knobs and a slanted faucet, rather than the retro white china cross knobs and swoopy faucet. At some point we'd like to replace the sinks, and we can make sure the holes are right for the good faucets when we do.

So that’s two rolls of film that I spoiled. Now sitting at home sulking, and watching the Mets.

Bummer, Tom--what happened?

I did so much yesterday and now my back is really bothering me. Still went for a walk with sister, had breakfast burritos, did some yard work (i.e., hacked back the rosemary, lavender, and groundcover that I should never have planted), and then took a muscle-relaxant my sister gave me.

It's not quite doing the job, though: I may take another.

At some point I need to start going through kitchen drawers and deciding what I really need to keep versus get rid of, before I have to empty everything out for the demolition.