Month: January 2015

You know it’s good stock (ham stock in this case) if you can stand a fork up in it.

I finally broke down and asked my work for a company-issued laptop, mostly for better-supported remote access. They fixed me up pretty well. My old laptop (on the left) will now mostly stay at home and be strictly for personal use.

I have to thank Verizon for delivering these phone books on trash day, so I could easily put them in the same place we’ve put all our other phone books: in the recycle bin.

My unofficial gague of how cold it’s been recently is the temperature of our (drafty, uninsulated) basement: if it gets below 50 degrees, I consider it a cold snap.

I picked up a 6-pack of Smuttynose’s new seasonal beer today. It tastes like someone added waaay too much hops to their Old Brown Dog (which I also like).

It’s not a nice treat if it doesn’t look special.

I took some of the grates off the top of my stove to clean out today’s accumulation of bacon grease, leading to cool shadows inside.