emv @ed_packet@a2mi.social

https://wonderfoolproductions.org/festifools/

Festifools, normally held in the streets of downtown Ann Arbor, is going virtual today. Details in the link above, the show starts at 400p Sunday 2020-04-05.

Bagged topsoil, 40# for about $3.50, at Stadium Hardware. I think it's unlikely that anyone will send a truck out with a load of garden dirt. I am happy that this hardware store is still open. I understand that they sell seeds too.

Call ahead with a card for zero-contact service.

We started some kale sprouts inside. There are lots of bunnies around, so there's also the challenge of fencing so that the agriculture doesn't just go towards bunny reproduction.

https://github.com/vielmetti/commonplace/issues/213

I'm planning a menu for tonight, and as a part of that I'm logging info to my "commonplace book" web site, which is sort of a blog except the structure is much more Gopher inspired.

There is a recipes section

https://emv-commonplace.netlify.app/recipes/

which I'm slowly but surely categorizing as I go. And there's a good and useful search box.

I got tired of blogging.

The whole setup is on Github, PRs and issues welcomed.

leftover rice, crumbled feta cheese, sumac, cilantro

reheat the rice, add feta, top with a shake of sumac and some chopped cilantro

parsley would have worked as well, we are looking to grow some this summer

rice from Mediterranean Market
feta from same
sumac from By The Pound
cilantro from Aldi

Brief report: By The Pound (S Industrial) has plenty of flour, and a very small but very useful frozen foods section. It was busy but not too busy at 1130a. Closed Sunday.

The Annie, blowing her horn.

a clear plastic zipper bag full of brand new stuffed animals, in the closet; very welcomed at this moment

The MERIT computer network terminal prompt was

WHICH HOST?

which got changed for Halloween, if I remember right, to be

WITCH GHOST?

which of course broke automation scripts that weren't anticipating the prompt change.

My neighborhood email list coordinated putting stuffed animals, specifically, stuffed bears, in our windows, so that people on a walk can go on a bear hunt.

There will be public comment time during these meetings. Let's hope they do a practice meeting first.

The April 6 City Council meeting is moving to a digital format due to Governor Whitmer's Stay Home, Stay Safe executive order and in line with the City's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Council Members and City staff will participate live from remote locations, but residents can still view the meeting live on CTN Cable Channel 16, ATT Channel 99, or live or on demand online https:// www.a2gov.org/watchCTN) or https://www.a2gov.org/livemeetings .

via https://www.a2gov.org/departments/city-clerk/Pages/Virtual-Meetings-.aspx

At the top of the hour, the automated WCBN robot plays a station ID saying that they are running old shows from their library, and then plays their "Wash your hands" jingle PSA.

Installing Catalina on a MacBookPro14,1 - this is the 2017 model with the bad keyboard and the bad screen hinge that lets in RF and puts pretty static on the screen.

Fortunately this is a work machine not a home machine so I don't feel quite so personally betrayed by its failings. (Steve would have never let this happen.)

The hope I have for it is that as a work machine I'll trade it in and get credit for a better system. Either that or use it as a server only.

Received 100 bonus SummerGame2020 points for earning the Salad Days Badge

#summergame #aadl

instant pot bean soup
made from dry beans

notes:
- could have used more tomato paste
- needed more salt
- needed more umami
- could have used a carrot
- more oregano too, for sure
- very good with a lemon parsley pesto
- will be better on day two

Cheap and nourishing to be sure, and not particularly taxing on the pantry.

10 hours from start to finish, mostly unattended with beans soaking. "instant, ha.

working on a recipe.

Listening to Big City Blues Cruise through to 7 pm with Joe Tiboni spinning blues tunes. Otis Rush live and in concert from San Francisco concert just up just now.

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