Several months have passed since I did a post asking about favorite teas. It’s time for tea review. I am not an affiliate of any of the companies mentioned, so I received no compensation for my tea reviews. I have very specific taste when it comes to tea. I drink it straight, without sugar or
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Long Week, Factories, and Kids
A terribly busy week. We wrote Ryder on Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, after a discussion with Avon, a decision was made to write Arabella’s very short story bribe. By the way, thank you to all of the OB-GYN who responded. We got our two experts, but we deeply appreciate your help. We
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American “Bulgogi” and Russian Morkovcha
Oh noes, it’s a cooking post. I promised you return to a somewhat normal blogging. Today I offer you two recipes of Korean origin. These shouldn’t be mistaken for original Korean cuisine. It’s more of American/Korean and Russian/Korean fusion, but they are yummy and cheap. Bulgogi. When pandemic started, I bought a bunch of chuck
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Scythians
This is a film about Tomiris, the queen and war chief of Scythians who defeated and killed Cyrus the Great around 530 BC. We used proto-Scythian tribes as the model for the People of the Kurgan, so these are Julie’s people. Archeological evidence suggest that they were probably a bit more blondish, but the movie
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Birthday Florida Man
Kids are here for delayed Father’s Day. We are still planning on family relocation to Florida and the Kid 1 brought home a fun game. Okay, you have to do this with me. Google your birthday, day and month only, and Florida Man. A funny Florida man article will pop up. For example, here is
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Fox News and Watery Tarts
In an effort to extend their coverage of protests, Fox News decided to look at Reddit. They found this little nugget and reported it. The post in question, by someone name Kasplorge, says: “I didn’t vote for Raz. I thought we were an autonomous collective? An anachro-syndicalist commune at the least. We should take turns
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Camera Help
I’ve wanted a camera for years. I am a lousy shot, but I really enjoy taking pictures. Specifically, I like taking pictures of pets, flowers, and bugs. Sometimes landscapes. So I watched a class on artistic, painting-like photography, and I really liked it. The instructor was using something called Lensbaby, which is a type of
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Need Design Book Recommendations
For some reasons California Closets sent me their magazine/catalogue and in it, they profiled 4 current popular design trends: Modern Farmhouse, Industrial Rustic, Traditional, and Transitional Modern. I really enjoyed reading it, so I went looking for a book that would have more styles, and hit a roadblock. It seems most design books are either
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Cake Recipe
Me: Lalala… Email box: Cake recipe? Cake recipe? Me: O_o Chocolate cake Okay so the cake itself I got from here. Two notes. First, I didn’t have buttermilk so I added 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar to regular milk and allowed it to clot for about 10 minutes. Second, this is a lot of cake.
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So Much Stuff
If you need to be thanked in the acknowledgments for Emerald Blaze, please email me. I’ve got the Chinese and Hong Kong readers, the Italian reader, the legal reader, and I can’t remember who I am missing. If you beta read this book, please email me, because I can’t be trusted. We are trying to
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No Churn Ice Cream
I don’t have an ice cream making machine or one of those churning thingies, but I wanted some ice cream the other day, and I found this recipe that only takes 3 ingredients. It makes delicious ice cream and you don’t have to churn anything. The gist of it: heavy whipping cream, a can of
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Knitting Dilemmas
First, admin stuff. A small note on comment moderation on fiction posts: all the comments are read, so if the comment has been left up, that means we are cool with it. I keep starting and dropping various creative projects. I was going to paint in photoshop, so I made a planet to put in
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