It was a bust of a party, it rained and only few people showed up, almost no trick or treaters either. Good drinks and food though and I got to dance in the strobe light room, that is always fun.
Thanksgiving is all-comers at my house, so if you are a thanksgiving orphan you are invited.
You have to understand the roots of the voting registration rules here to understand it better. The whole point of them was to keep black men and all women from having a vote.
That's it - that is what they were for. So every permutation since is built on that framework, it's always "the wrong people might vote' instead of "we want to make sure everyone votes".
So voter ID is not a bad idea on its face, you go in to vote the poll workers need to know who you are, right? The lady who sits across from me at work is old, she went to renew her driver's license in February this year and they said no, your current license (that they issued) is not enough, there are new requirements - we need your birth certificate, your first marriage license, your divorce paperwork, your second marriage license, your divorce decree from that marriage, then we can renew your license.
She just managed to get all this by mid-October, so she did get through in time to vote but what the fuck? She had to reach out to 3 states and getting a birth certificate from like the 1950s is not easy. Why is it not easy to renew? Because the laws were written to prevent voting not to enable it.
I mean, we know cats named Oreo, Biscuit, and Butter.
My Kimchi, her whole name is Kim Chiara Oscura because her coat is light in darkness.
Our usage is higher than that, not 80 but higher than 30 always. and yes I think it's high. I cook at home, a lot. AC runs a lot, 2 heat pump units. One person working from home. High ceilings. Everything is electric. Our bill is lower in the winter than the summer but our winters are mild.
I agree this is, and should be, an unpopular opinion.
If I get some money for doing nothing, a windfall, then getting half of it is still me getting free money.
If I work for ten years to get the same amount, shouldn't I pay less in taxes? I spent my time and effort making that money.
Usually anyone who gets rich quick either ripped people off, inherited or won money and I would tax anything unearned at a higher rate than earned.
I can't always immediately tell right from left, but generally know where north is; and have lived in the same place for so long I know where I am so well, could drive a taxi.
I kinda like getting lost but it doesn't happen here.
And I HATE navigation, don't like my phone yelling at me to turn right in 100 feet. I just want to actually know where I am, not have a path. When I worked farther away & had to drive I would go different ways every day. My husband thinks that's funny, he would decide an ideal route and keep using it, but I want to explore.
Yeah this is not something I'd buy premade - not enough difference in convenience, and homemade is so tasty
Leon Bridges (with Hermanos Gutierrez ) does such a good cover of Elegantly Wasted.
Yeah I got the big back basket on mine, I take it to work most days and it fits 2 stuffed paper grocery bags, no problem. And is just such a pleasure to ride, I hated bike riding with the terribly painful seats and slow, so much effort, it was uncomfortable. This EBike is big & heavy but riding it is like riding a bike in a dream. Set the assist to medium, torque sensor, I like to pedal not use the throttle, because it feels so good to feel it just MOVE when I push.
Holy cow these are good. Thank you!
I have a crazy long Halloween party playlist on YouTube, goes from creepy to kid friendly to party to punky to kinda sad, to follow the flow of a Halloween party. I took out a lot of the kid stuff as mine are grown now but don't think these were mentioned & I like for kid time at Halloween:
Dead Egyptian Blues - Trout Fishing in America
Dead - They Might be Giants
Half Moon - M Ward
Vampire - Claudia Schmidt
Two more Tom Waits songs I like for Halloween, Tango Till they're Sore and Cemetery Polka.
I love the Cramps but don't think Garbageman is the song I'd go for. Rockin Bones and also if you can find their cover of Green Door.
And this year I may actually kick things off with the soundtrack for the Peaky Blinders movie, it is so atmospheric and scary sounding and so beautiful.
Wow. I haven't ever expected a guy to pay on a date like that. Sometimes they did, but always I would offer to split it. I never offered to pay the whole tab, but certainly didn't expect the guy to.
I know some women who did use dates to get meals, like a game, but that seems kinda awful.
Got near a hundred mini watermelon this year, the very late ones were no good but for a couple months they were glorious. Mini love variety, it was a brutally hot summer and they flourished, I let them take over the whole garden.
Two plants survived being overrun by watermelon, the asparagus and the hong tsoi. I'm sort of resting it until "spring" which is planted around Feb here.
Very basic scoring this time. One line one x. I was happy to find some "golden whole wheat flour" yesterday.
350g Golden whole wheat flour
650g strong white bread flour
20g sel gris
675g tap water
200g starter made with all purpose white flour and tap water, hydration 100%.
Just mix, rest, stretch and fold 4x at 30 minute intervals. Bulk rise took awhile, maybe 4 hours this time (it varies, one hour to 8 - is a condition not a time). Split and bench rest then shaped, into cloth lined baskets wrapped in plastic bags, overnight in the refrigerator. Baked cold bread in very hot closed pans 20 minutes then open lids and 20 minutes more. 450F.
(Sorry for the mixed measurements - I had a bunch of egg white so had to weigh out 1 egg worth)
35 grams egg white
1 Tbsp guava jelly or guava paste
1 oz good mezcal
1/2 oz over proof reposado tequila
1/2 oz Aperol
3/4 oz lemon juice
ETA I failed to list one step. First: whisk or muddle the jelly and booze to incorporate it.
Shake without ice, then with ice. Just as good as it sounds and so beautiful.
It's not a looker, but tastes great.
2 oz tequila (any)
1 oz lime juice
1 oz creme de cassis
2-3 oz ginger beer (I used 1 oz ginger syrup, 3 oz fizzy water, 2 squirts of fire tincture)
Result of googling "what else can I make with tequila and lime"
Husband is having a Stella, that's the bottle in the background.
He's up to 7.5 lb from under 1 lb when we found him. (From 300 grams of baby to 3.5kg of kitten in only a few months, crazy.)
Here is a "before", the day my kids texted to say they found the source of the meowing I had heard before work. Just a wee handful. Always bold as anything though, he was never afraid of us or our 75lb mutt of a dog.
1 oz barrel strength bourbon
1 oz barrel strength reposado tequila
1 scant oz Aperol with a splash of Campari to make an ounce.
1 oz Amaro Nonino
1 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz lemon juice
Shake together with ice. If you are somewhere it's not still summer, serve up in a chilled coupe. Tart enough for a sugared rim. But it's still hot here, so everything is iced. This is sort of 1.5 servings, I just find it fussy to measure .75 of an ounce. Equal parts is the key.
https://makemeacocktail.com/en/cocktail/9953/banderilla
Equal parts tequila, mezcal, Apricot liqueur and lime, half part Aperol works best IMO, any more Aperol and it gets too sweet.
This is a pantry recipe for me as I keep Giffard Abricot in stock always. You want a good apricot in this, I think passion fruit or peach would be equally delicious but make sure it's made from real fruit. Also can sub Campari for the Aperol if you want a little more bitter.
