The Raven's Roost

Florida Woman Stopped From Driving into Thousands of 5K Turkey Trotters - she was apparently angry about ... not being able to drive where she wanted. This is almost on the heels of the incident on the Sunshine Bridge where a drunk woman was attempting to drive onto the 10k course and an officer literally used her cruiser to stop her. The dashcam footage is hair-raising.

Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion and Acceptance in Running Riley got a Golden Ticket! Their 100 mile time is AMAZING. Anyway - this year I've noticed more and more races opening up a nonbinary category. Every time I've signed up for a race, I get to that question, pause, and just mark "female," since that's close enough. Obviously there are objections to this, and I've already read about someone who signed himself up as NB because, as he openly stated, it would be much easier to win his age group.

Fox bought me a coffee advent calendar, and today's was ... McCafe? I haven't been to a McDonald's in ages. I remember back in college when coffee shops were something they had in Paris and San Francisco, but not Podunk, Tennessee. You could get a hot, serviceable cup of coffee at Mickey D's. It was a damn sight better than the gas station swill that might have been sitting there cooking on the burner for six hours or longer. What I drank today was a pretty good, middle of the road coffee. Nothing special, but also not offensively bad or too bland. It benefited from a shot of cream.

I have not gotten around to making scones today, but definitely tomorrow. I'll be making cinnamon chip scones with a vanilla icing drizzle, and then a batch of savory cheddar ones when I can go to the store. I'll need Greek yogurt and a really sharp cheddar for that. Maybe some fresh herbs, too. I thought I had yogurt, but I guess I ate it all.

Did you ever eat something so lackluster that you wish you could get a calorie refund? We ate at a local Chinese and sushi place that's usually pretty good. Nothing spectacular - we're not talking about highly refined Asian cuisine and a Japanese sushi master - but tasty, plentiful food. Today it was just ... not up to snuff. Fox said the sushi rice was old, and I noticed the General Tzo's chicken was tough, like it had been reheated. The hot and sour soup had an off taste like they didn't have enough broth so they combined the tail-ends of several different kinds of soup stock. The hostess said something about she was sorry for today and next week it would be better, but the poor lady is always a bit soft-spoken and hard to hear. I know every Chinese buffet has off days but they're always disappointing when you hit one.


We dropped the tractor off to get a backhoe installed - it should be ready Monday or Tuesday. Of course I have to go back to the doctor again because doctor prefers to discuss results in person, go over your treatment plan, nonsensical medical speak yadda yadda, so I'm going to go find out what my treatment and possible surgical plan is for that cancer I don't have. I'm also going to do my weekly grocery shopping while I'm out because I'm getting tired of doing all this driving.

Today we discovered that Starbucks will actually make a green tea frapp that tastes like green tea. Just order it unsweetened. And according to a blog I read, if you ask for extra matcha it's even better, but at least unsweetened it doesn't taste like that sugar-bomb American crap people are always trying to pass off. The frapp base is already sweet on its own, so it doesn't need any more help. Oh and apparently if you get a berry cup swirl with it, that's a Dragon Frappucino, for those of you who weren't into the Unicorn.

Of course now I'm paranoid that the doctor saw something else on my imaging, but you'd think someone would have mentioned that by now. But logic and reason has never stopped my brain from finding a worst case scenario and running with it.


And here's my Zox Of The Day - click to enbiggen - they recently released Declaration and a similar Valley Forge one called Independence in a very limited run on Monday. (People were, of course, whining about how limited they are.) I managed to snag both and today wore Declaration with a Pura Vida set, the Serenity Place Cat Rescue charity stack. I only recently got into Pura Vida, and between them, Zox, and now Rastaclat is sending me emails, I'm running out of wrist space.