October, 2019

I think today was probably my last bike-involved commute of the season, since we change the clocks this weekend and it’s supposed to rain the rest of the week. Maybe by next fall the city will have paved my route and I won’t fear falling into a hole in the dark.

At a craft fair last weekend, I bought a roll of reusable “paperless towels”: pieces of recycled flannel bedsheet cut and finished to about the size of a paper towel, then rolled onto a cardboard tube. After a week of use I’m very happy — they’re sturdier and more absorbent than paper towels, and go through the wash just fine. The real genius here is rolling them into that familiar form factor — and, being flannel, they stick to themselves and stay on the roll. I got a set of 16 mis-matched towels. It seemed fitting to make a holder for them from leftover scraps of wood from the workshop.

The building I work in sent my company this lovely orchid for, I dunno, continuing to pay rent or something? Considering how dry it gets in the office especially in the winter, my coworkers are placing bets on how long it lasts. Yes, we’ve started a dead pool for a plant.

A few of us went to the HONK! festival in Davis Square this afternoon.

More photos at my gallery: http://gallery.parkercat.org/index.php?/category/405

AKA work from home on one of the first chilly days of the season.

Air Canada is hosting a pop-up poutine outlet in Boston this week. I think several of you would have been disappointed in me had I not gone. I got the “Toronto” and the “Paris”.

These cookies were too big for Lis and me to responsibly enjoy an entire one for a weeknight dessert. So I got a little creative in cutting them in half.

Our cats have never shown any interest in bags or boxes. Until today.