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  I was reminded today of the day I knew I had reached old man status. On base. Walking towards the gym entrance. A female Marine and I were approaching from opposite directions, about equal distance. Just as we're reaching the door, she jumps forward, grabs the door, opens it for me, and says, "After you, sir!" Dear reader, I died that day.

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  In case the official records-keeper is on Mastodon, our lunch guests got to the front door at 1:20. Here it is, 2:15 and they've finally walked away to the elevators. #MinnesotaGoodbye

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  My husband and I went to see Project Hail Mary this afternoon. I loved the book. The movie was a great disappointment. To anyone who hasn't read the book it will be an even worse movie. In short, whether you've read the book or not, my recommendation is to wait for it to come to cable. We were both masked, of course, despite the theater policy of not allowing masks. And we had no trouble, except for the couple who decided they HAD to sit right next to us. 😒 #ProjectHailMary

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  Somebody got a nice shot of one of the tornados that came through town today. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/rochestermn/comments/1sodqe1/417_definitely_not_a_drill/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Kristian_Kiehling/116424061339819309 Damn. That's metal as hell.

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/116421150440195458 Oh, snap.

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  It makes me so angry that @stux has to constantly beg users for help to keep that instance going. The man has to pay rent besides running mstdn.social. It just isn't fair to him. Mstdn.Social has 13,000+ users. If every user paid JUST $1 each month, he could do that full time, and mstdn would have the latest, greatest servers. But no. That's an important node on the Fediverse, and 13,000 people will be sorry when it folds because you didn't support it. Step up. htt...

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  We make our lasagna noodles thin enough to see through them. And our assembled lasagna has a lot of layers. A lot of layers.

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  One of the things I admire about Japanese is how they’ll take something foreign and perfect it. Shokupan is our favorite bread to make or eat. Well, maybe a really good sourdough for some things.

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  Ope. I think ya moved to tha wrong state, there, doncha knøw.

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  People who threaten to leave and then don't disappoint me.

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  Mstdn.Social has 11,000 users. ELEVEN THOUSAND. That's a very important node in the Fediverse. Imagine if each of those users gave @stux one dollar. What would that amount to? I dunno. I'm American. I can't do math.

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  What doesn't kill you tries again. ☠️

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  Scallop sammiches for dinner

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  Now that we're at the end of March, I can say I've bought nothing but groceries and medication for the entire month. That being done, I think I'll extend that. See how long I can go with spending only on the barest essentials. It's also been a month without any filters or blocks on this site, but I may have to start filtering again. The amount of political tomfoolery about which I care not a whit can be a bit much.

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  NOW it feels like spring has arrived for me. I always look for these little blue harbingers. I have no idea what they are.

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  It was such a spring-like day, we decided to echo that with dinner tonight. Roast asparagus with a little lemon, we cut our pasts thin (cappelini-esque?) and topped it with peas and parsley, and did a crispy-skinned salmon.

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  Cooking dinner has been underway for more than an hour already. Slow food is good. The wine is reducing, but that will go in shortly. Then it’s kick back for a while.

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  I'm currently reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" for the first time. I was struck by this passage. It comes right after the Reverend Mother has tested Paul Atreides. She is talking with him. "𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺." How apropos seventy years later.

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  Don't let this be you. It's not worth it to try to go anywhere today in the upper MidWest. Stay home, please. https://511mn.org

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  Transperçant - French. Meaning "piercing".

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  A procession of cute little trespassers walking across our grass this morning.

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  Comme il faut.

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  One advantage of keeping my old California number - when I see a call/text from 619 or 858, I know it's spam. I wish I could just block whole area codes on my phone.

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  There are some very smart people with opinions on a statue. I'm into it. 'It has been called "decidely (sic) risqué"; "the most astounding peep show in art"; and "the grossest and most offensive example of Baroque art.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa

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  Don’t buy stuff. Just don’t.

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  G’morning.

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  Shokupan in a Pullman loaf is one of my favorite breads to make. It takes all my self-control to wait until it’s cooled off before I start slicing.

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  Fork it all. I'm going to Schrader valves on everything. Forget Presta. It was a phase.

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  The thing about the Apple Neo - back in the before-fore times, I was able to attach my Lumia to a keyboard and monitor and use it like a PC. Why don't today's phones do that? Dock your iPhone into a device and run it all with a full sized keyboard and a decent monitor. But I'm just a frozen caveman, so...