Agile works better than anything else, IME (which is 20+ years in the tech world mostly as a writer). You just have to be real flexible about what it means and be all up in everyone's business.
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Dec 10, 2020 8:11:57 am PST #883 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Amy - Dec 10, 2020 8:14:33 am PST #884 of 30000
Because books.
Did anyone ever like creamed onions? My paternal grandmother used to make them, and they just sat there, sort of solidifying into a big gloopy mess in their bowl.
We used to do turkey for both Thanksgiving and Christmas until I convinced my mother that this was one turkey too many, and too close together. We do a filet now, which is so much better. My dad still insists on pumpkin pie at both, though.
-t - Dec 10, 2020 8:15:37 am PST #885 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's not even really micromanaging, it just feels like it. I am ridiculous.
-t - Dec 10, 2020 8:16:18 am PST #886 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Pumpkin pie whenever possible is a good policy
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2020 8:16:51 am PST #887 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Pumpkin pie whenever possible is a good policy
PREACH.
sj - Dec 10, 2020 8:25:49 am PST #888 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I do not know what creamed onions are, and I don’t think I want to know.
After Mom married Stepdad we started having Thanksgiving with Stepdad’s family, and one year we ended up eating it at a rest buffet. I threw such a fit that mom ended up making a small Thanksgiving dinner the next week, and I don’t think we ever did the restaurant Thanksgiving again. I was a teenager at the time.
sj - Dec 10, 2020 8:26:25 am PST #889 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ltc did not like the pumpkin pie, but she loved the apple pie.
Jessica - Dec 10, 2020 8:40:53 am PST #890 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh yes, I should mention that my "replace the heavy white starches with roast veggies" strategy has as its ultimate goal More Room For Pie.
meara - Dec 10, 2020 8:58:32 am PST #891 of 30000
Y’all it’s a Christmas miracle. I’m in a training that is actually well planned and helpful. Where am I?!
Calli - Dec 10, 2020 9:02:27 am PST #892 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
We did the buffet thing for Thanksgiving the last several years of my parents’ lives. Mom was an excellent cook, but after 30+ years, she was entirely over it. She didn’t even want the fuss and bother of me cooking for the family where she’d feel the need to supervise. I was still in the “free food is good food” phase of early adulthood, so it worked out. Now I like cooking for others, but in non-COVID times that’s just 4-5 meals a year that have to meet other people’s standards. Not a daily grind.