200mg caffeine around 8AM, another around 10:30, yogurt (18g) and pb sammies (20g?) for brunch. NY Times Opinion: "Love. Labor. Lost." - an interview with Moira Weigel, author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating, revisiting the concept "emotional labor". Rethinking my willingness to blow off the 4th Sunday feeding event while the church kitchen is under remodeling, I arranged to use the dining room and we'll just have pizza and salad ordered in rather than cooking. Psychology Today blogger K... (...more)

Wed review: From work, to Wendy's for my old standby double-stack plus 2x 6pc chx nugs, arrived at the Family Promise house in time to eat my food in the car and enter on time. There were only 2 adults and 1 child in the program and they went to bed shortly after I arrived. What I SHOULD have done if I was using time wisely, was gather up the therapist's intake forms into a PDF in preparation for reprinting. What I actually did was answer yahoos and facebook and play AdvCap until I was sleepy. My co-hos... (...more)

200mg caf pill to kickstart the day. JD bacon breakfast bowl: 27g / 400 kcal, bacon is nice and dry, 1200mg is 50% of a day's sodium though. Figured out I've been negating the power-level setting on the replacement microwave - you need to set cook time first, THEN power level. Vitamins + omega-3s. Another 200mg with a cup of Tang at 11:30. An unsentimental goodbye to my old Lexmark E210 laser printer, plus the last of the scrap inkjets, and the microwave whose only real problem was the defunct "Start" b... (...more)

Mon concluded: Received a rate and intake forms from the therapist. Picked up the delayed Cupcakemas package and my own new exercise accessory at my PO box on the way home. The parish administrator informed me St. G is in phase 2 of the kitchen remodel so we need to have an alternate plan, or take another 4th Sun dinner hiatus. I would be fine with serving pizza if we can use the dining room, I think the budget can handle that for this month. Finished playing through Adventure Capitalist's olympics-themed ... (...more)

Stopped home en route to Chez Cupcake Friday evening, paid rent, alerted the landlady the shower faucets needed new washers, did not grab my shaver as I'd intended. Tilapia, baby asparagus, shrimp-stuffed potatoes, crab-stuffed mushrooms for dindins. :Q Sat: Kona Bay Café for breakfast, strolled in the park across the street for a little, showed K.- what mexican clover (Richardia grandiflora a.k.a. largeflower pusley) looks like. Watched Ex Machina, Flanigan's for dinner, watched Django Unchained befo... (...more)