Aw, you guys are nice. It'll be good to see her. And then I can do all the laundry in the world after.

sounds like a good plan

That takes up a lot of spoons, Jesse -- I'm not surprised you're running low just now.

I have a recipe for chess pie that I can make if I can come up with a substitute for evaporated milk -- evidently you can simmer almond or coconut milk down by half and use it pretty confidently. I'm thinking that getting out the double-boiler would be good for this, since it would be very hard to scald it that way -- yes, no?

Socializing takes energy! But the nice thing is, sometimes it also provides it.

I think a double boiler would be your best bet, Theo.

Double boilers are the best. Even though I've only ever used a glass bowl on a pan.

Back to me: And a lot of the laundry is in service of the houseguests I'm really excited about over the 4th of July, but ALSO preemptively exhausted about that! There's a lot to do to have an actually usable guest room, but it will be worth doing, and I have next weekend.

I am so sorry, Jesse

I'm sorry, Jesse. It made it so much better that my mom actually enjoyed her last year, in a safe place, and being well taken care of by people who liked her, rather than a tired and frustrated family. That your dad is strong and healthy and enjoying where he is is a good thing.

Happy Midsummer, people!

I'm so sorry, Jesse.

There's no evaporated milk in the one true chess pie recipe, which is, of course, my grandmother's.

I have a double boiler, but i usually end up using a pan or a bowl because 1) it's small and 2) I usually grab the first thing that might work. I also often life dangerously and cook without a net.

Jesse, all my sympathies.

Here's a cool one: how do you pronounce forecastle?

More intuitively than Ffeatherstonehaugh.

I love double boilers. I don't need mine as much now that I have a microwave, but they're one of my kitchen outfitting staples.

Then I discovered that I was just carrying the milk; I had left the steak at the checkout counter.

I'm sorry I'm laughing. It's just so FML, but not world-ending.

The other day I requested an Uber car from a restaurant after eating and paying etc, and it showed up literally immediately. I was so startled I left my doggie bag--more than half the serving of delicious pork pad thai. He'd just left someone at that same corner, saw my call, and grabbed it. Clearly not good with prompt automotive service--it's not the same as dawdling getting on your shoes and jacket after calling a cab.

Oh, and that was a nice and succinct explanation of a solenoid, t-rot. I'm not sure if I'll remember, but I certainly understand.

So I decided to walk to a grocery store about four blocks away to buy a steak even though radar showed we were about to be hit by a line of thunderstorms.

Aw, man. I've had that happen a couple of times, sometimes it's me and sometimes it's the clerk, but it's ALWAYS the one thing I went to the store to get.

The clerk failed to put my bacon in my bag today, but I saw it and grabbed it before I left so I could make this: [link]

Sorry about the torrential rain. When I got up, I saw that it was going to storm later and timed my errands accordingly, although it said the storm was going to hit a 7pm and it ended up being more like 5:30. I avoided it today, but I got soaked a couple of times earlier this week.