Erin Ryan

The 67 degrees at 9pm wouldn't be so bad walking back from dinner in downtown, but lord this humidity. Eww.

🤢🤮 the dog is sharing her ticks with me.

I mean...standard story with the funny beginning of him participating in interviews and then dodging them and then claiming that there were going to be reporting lots of lies they were told 🙃

Being a Xennial I got the original Elitches before high school! And then being a Golden kid in a very specific timeframe I also got Heritage Square as the third amusement park 😂

The one everyone went to or the park that was mostly just Jeffco kids? (Or I guess there was the third option but no one really went there by the time I was a kid)

Oh, the cakes came up again today. I guess I shall summarize with:

1) I didn't make them, (Science dudes had them made, breaking the embargoes they were subject to)
2) I wasn't the first to post them, but I was the only one punished, and
3) I don't work for or as a contractor for NASA anymore

Oh, if this involves calibration and side effects from doing it poorly, I have ~opinions~

Sitting here I also get to review what our state legislature is doing and...argh, I see the house is advocating for putting off the legalization of balcony solar until Jan 1, 2027 instead of July 1, 2026. I wanted to buy plug in solar as soon as possible this summer!

Sitting in a waiting room as a friend's driver after medical stuff: where I learn soap opera acting is still hella bad.

Ugg, I'd always be coming back from lunch when those went off on campus and forget it was the first Wednesday.

Thankfully it's normal health stuff, but the practice of being a good friend someone can rely on for random needs and when the registration desk needs proof a human to drive you home exists. I just get to sit here and be the shuttle!

Today I have the job of "medical transport" for a friend and well...I anticipate they might be a little grumpy so I will not mention that my purse contains cheese (I have done pickups at Home Depot for fence paint and Aldi on my way to get said friend).

A bright fuschia metal bed with a yellow straw covering and long green leaves poking thru the surface from garlic (left side) and onions (right side).

Yes, many fingers crossed as multiple beds are like this currently.

Lol, we can tell that I'm shopping online to make a mini planter based pond in the backyard so I can have a fountain and maybe a few goldfish😂

Things I have just learned: Firestone as a brand shows up a lot for...pond liners? I guess those are rubberized so it makes sense.

I'm trying to decide if feta might be too salty along with the serrano (which isn't obvs salty but....it's cured meat so there's plenty of salt).

Ohhh oozy funky cheeses like brie make me vom, so those are out.

I was wondering that way for tradition or do I swing to something like a smoked gouda?

Tomorrow I have to do a thing that will result in me driving home at rush hour and I've been trying to plan the pizza I should be able to throw together but...what cheese would you put on something with an arugula lemon pesto base, serrano ham, apple and pickled red onions?

They've been looking happy, the question for them will be much like my garlic: how well are they going to bulb up? But it looks like I have very little in losses thus far based on things coming up, perhaps as I did a peroxide dip followed by a fertilizer soak pre-planting.

We are also 7B! This was a first time experiment for me since our local gardening and homebrew store was selling onion sets in fall.

Yeah I put in some Whethersfield and Stuttgarter Riesen in the ground in the fall with the garlic and have been happy to see them coming up!

Ohhh I have three different sets arriving at the end of the month (4 dozen each tropea, cippollini and an intermediate day mix of red/white/yellow)!

Lessons learned tonight: my homemade bao buns do not last very long in the freezer _and_ should be reheated in a steamer on the stove, not covered in wet paper towels in the microwave. Poop.

I'm pretty sure even on the corporate side the only part of Workday that brought joy was the "Actions -> Job Change -> Resign" sequence 🤣

I'm guessing tommorrow I will be very unhappy at the wrist slip that led to way too much red chile powder 😭

Oh god, tonight really is going to be "how long can you ride a spice from too much Kashmiri Red Chile Powder?"

Y'all...I am in bed and feel like my knees are floating. I am both pleased and scared for my digestive tract tomorrow.

Lol, spouse and our dog have done about 10 miles today and...that's more or less a standard day and why I want to die when spouse goes on travel.

Lol, I also have too much of a spice high to spell 😭😱

Which is to say to Charlottesville people: no, there are not dragons over in Belmont tomotroe I just had a slip of the hand and that may cause what looks like dragon flames 🫠😭