Outpost 505

It snowed today – our first real snow this winter.  In honor of the expected 1-3 inches (with another 1-3 tonight), there were significant school closures, and I’m sincerely hoping for a snow day tomorrow.  Please compare this with two years ago, when the University closed school for snow for the first time since 1979 [...]

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(from last weekend, when I felt inspired to make a Spanish tortilla but only had a single fingerling potato in the larder)

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I know that all of you are dying to know if we’re going to the Inauguration or not.  To be honest, I’m not sure!
DC is supposed to be just totally effing nutty in the next few days. We found out today that our friends Aggie and Jason will be driving down from Chicago after getting [...]

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It’s already the second week of January, and neither of us have posted about our holiday trip to California.  Embarassing.  Anyway.

This year instead of flying back to the perma-freeze of northern Illinois, we met my family out in Carlsbad, California, where they have a time-share.  They usually visit in January, so we convinced them to [...]

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I made the decision to not be a total music elitist and put down the 50 albums this year I thought were average or better, and wanted to focus on stuff I thought was truly enjoyable. So I trimmed it down to 30 and really tried to think about why it made the list. No [...]

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