yum lobster.

I passed on mountain biking with my sibs this morning because I'm still recovering from giving blood two weeks ago. Turns out it takes 4-6 weeks to repopulate your hemoglobin, especially if you're not taking extra iron, which I wasn't. So I don't feel as bad about being gaspy and out of breath, but I wasn't about to be miserable and well-behind everyone else for a couple of hours in the hot sun. Next weekend, maybe.

My weekend is going to involve some baking: I think I will make rough-puff pastry and try to do kouign aman again. I hope this time they're less chewy (I don't think bread flour is appropriate, too much gluten develops).

Other than that, I will watch Hamilton and maybe start on that Netflix animated show Kibo something.

So there were store level layoffs . People were talking about this at work today.

Yeah our economy was already struggling because it was too based on consuming. And I don't think there are enough people in power who really want to commit to changing things.

It's easy to talk about bringing jobs back as a campaign promises but those people don't want to deal with the reality of what they entails.

kouign aman

They are so tricky. But go you, with the ambition and the rough-puff!

So there were store level layoffs

I'm sorry, askye. It's such an uncertain, scary time.

The bakery is closed until Wednesday! I am beyond excited. I'm also going to bake, but probably mundane stuff like banana bread and an apple cake.

Timelies all!

This weekend was supposed to be the Northeastern filk con, aka NEFilk. A virtual version, with plenty of concerts, is happening under the name NEWhere.(Gary is the guest of honor, and has a concert tomorrow.)

Remember Fandom Wank on JournalFen?

It should still exist, just for this Hamilton fic wank that has EVERYTHING. [link]

I know we have some Twitter abstainers. You don't need an account to see the above. And if you click on the image, you'll get a full view of the text.

Cindy, that's hella entertaining.

I've literally never seen the phrase "gentrifying cannibalism" before.

Happy birthday, sj!

askye, I'm sorry about the layoffs.

this Hamilton fic wank that has EVERYTHING

I looked, I had to stop and re-read every few sentences, I blinked at it for a few moments, and then unfortunately remembered that somehow real life politics doesn't make much more sense than this. However, that summary is ******* beautiful. Thank you, Cindy.

I've literally never seen the phrase "gentrifying cannibalism" before.

Yes, however 2021 is just around the corner.

Edited: In order not to triple post (oops!), I edited another answer into this post. And then again because apparently I'm more tired than I think I am.

Cindy that is just...what. Whaaaat.