On U 1/25, we woke up to a light dusting of snow, which accumulated to problematic levels by nightfall. By today that snow was largely melted from drives and walkways, but not even completely from lawns. Snow fell all today but it wasn't quite cold enough to start sticking and accumulating until ~3-4pm. Forecasts are calling for as much as 18" here and as much as 30" (!) in Toms River. Needless to say we are all 101% fatigued with winter, freezing cold, snow and ice, and road salt grime. 8 ea K ... (...more)

vehicle reg renewal: hurdles include inspection and out-of-locale insurance
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bed after 11, snooze past 7 * * * I've expressed this before but I miss simpler meals as the norm. We've been chronically overpacking the pipeline with enormous supplies of not-particularly-protein-dense lasagne, fried rice etc. which we then have to eat for days and days. It blocks rotation of healthy variety and fresher staples. I feel subtly pressured to overeat while the monomeal is still fresh enough to not have to be made sad by freezing or wasted outright as discard. The economy of cookin... (...more)

A master volume control on Android OS, or at least a master mute toggle, would have prevented this morning's situation where my alarm volume was zero after having to drill down through 2 levels of interface to twiddle 5 separate volume sliders for last night's Eucharist + ashes service, and then hope I untwiddled them all correctly when we left. Evidently I didn't untwiddle the alarm slider. Proton's Lumo blenderized usage notes from two different Shizuku platform apps (ShizuTools and Volume Manager) ... (...more)

The pattern is hard to ignore: do +200mg caf ahead of a treadmill session even in early afternoon (1-2pm), expect to be not-sleepy past bedtime; Cantrip shot* notwithstanding. 100mg is probably ample for the purpose. *A typical U.S. shotglass measures 1.5 oz, i.e. 1x10mg Cantrip payload. Move pork loin or chicken (2) from cellar freezer to garage - also found another tub of pork shoulder drippings - don't forget there's pork shoulder Brekarito batch Extract the "Snowy Cosmo" recipe ... (...more)