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I May Need To Wear Pants Today
Dec. 24th, 2022 07:25 amThis morning, the heaters set up for the younger fruit trees are cycling on and off as expected. Drips are dripping. The front deck is slippery with, I assume, ice, though there isn't a lot of obvious crystallized ice everywhere. The birds are noisily appreciative of the seed and suet I've put out. And I have a decent fire going, though it could probably stand to be stirred and have another log put on it. The problem is that both Crowley and Feisal are curled up on me, so I am a cat hostage.
It may only barely touch 40 here today, so my long run is going to be interesting. By "interesting" I mean "ass-cold." I have base layers, gloves, and all that good stuff so I'll be fine. I will probably also set up the Keurig to make me a peppermint mocha, so when I come staggering in like I've just come from the South Pole, I can just hit the button and have hot coffee by the time I've backed up to the fire and thawed my butt cheeks out.
Looking at the Facebook groups, a lot of Trail Angels have opened their homes, and a lot of churches along the trail opened their facilities to get everyone inside overnight. I still don't think I'd exactly want to be camping in this stuff, though.
In gaming stuff, Little Nightmares 2 is incredible. The first game was unsettling but this one is actually kind of scaring me, and I'm a ghost story and horror film fan. My only technical issue is that sometimes Mono's jumps seem hard to line up, but that may be "end user error." While going through the School, I felt like I could smell the musty, dry skin smell of some of one of my kindergarten teachers - that claustrophobic smell of dust and old crayons. I'm now working my way through the hospital, and the Patients are just a whole lot of "NOPE fuck that nope nope nope." So far, five stars.
I made some peanut butter cookies yesterday by an internet recipe. That was my big mistake - I have an old Betty Crocker's Cooky Book from 1963 and it has never failed me. My cookies taste fine, but the texture of the dough was completely off, and some are really crumbly, even after baking. I'm thinking of making some cheddar cheese rolls to pack tomorrow if we still want to go out for a short hike.
It may only barely touch 40 here today, so my long run is going to be interesting. By "interesting" I mean "ass-cold." I have base layers, gloves, and all that good stuff so I'll be fine. I will probably also set up the Keurig to make me a peppermint mocha, so when I come staggering in like I've just come from the South Pole, I can just hit the button and have hot coffee by the time I've backed up to the fire and thawed my butt cheeks out.
Looking at the Facebook groups, a lot of Trail Angels have opened their homes, and a lot of churches along the trail opened their facilities to get everyone inside overnight. I still don't think I'd exactly want to be camping in this stuff, though.
In gaming stuff, Little Nightmares 2 is incredible. The first game was unsettling but this one is actually kind of scaring me, and I'm a ghost story and horror film fan. My only technical issue is that sometimes Mono's jumps seem hard to line up, but that may be "end user error." While going through the School, I felt like I could smell the musty, dry skin smell of some of one of my kindergarten teachers - that claustrophobic smell of dust and old crayons. I'm now working my way through the hospital, and the Patients are just a whole lot of "NOPE fuck that nope nope nope." So far, five stars.
I made some peanut butter cookies yesterday by an internet recipe. That was my big mistake - I have an old Betty Crocker's Cooky Book from 1963 and it has never failed me. My cookies taste fine, but the texture of the dough was completely off, and some are really crumbly, even after baking. I'm thinking of making some cheddar cheese rolls to pack tomorrow if we still want to go out for a short hike.
