My family had a library of fantasy, science fiction, regular fiction, et al to which I had unfettered access from the time I was old enough to string words together on a page. (I bought plenty of smut and horror from the dime boxes as a pre-teen, but kept those concealed.) The first three or four Auel books were among…

There goes my dream of a Pam & Lafayette spinoff. :(

General comment: 100-150 years ago, swarthy southern European immigrants (Italians, Greeks, etc) were not particularly considered white, and were treated with a great deal of disdain and discrimination. Not anywhere near what African and Asian people were subjected to, by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s…

Cherry tomatoes go from plant to face, no washing the dust off, just sun-hot seeds squirting inside my mouth.

A swipe of deodorant on the bite. Chapstick or any waxy lip balm works in a pinch, too.

Well, to a point. I have a hard time finding comfortable shoes and clothing that fit HERE, never mind in a foreign country, so I have to make sure I am squared away on that.

I leave for Europe next week and I have to keep talking myself out of packing my fabulous dragon leggings. They’ll be sweaty in the summer sun, they won’t be terribly appropriate, and that’s a couple square inches of space I can pack in more chocolate or spices to bring home!

...lobby for apartment complexes to install tubs that can fit anybody over five three without having to decide between boobs or knees out of the water.

I had called my bank about the Target hack, and they said “Oh, don’t worry, we’ll just replace your card if that happens.” Which is fine, but it did happen just before I was due to go on an overseas trip, and if it had been my debit card instead of my credit card, it would have been a *major* problem, because there…

Gotta finish Mass Effect Andromeda. I’ve been taking my time with it because I have other stuff going on, not because I’m not enjoying it, but it’s also buggy and I get annoyed and don’t feel like restarting the entire program when it craps out.

Add shallots, some halved cherry tomatoes, and I’d use half a lemon instead of vinegar...

They taste like buttered mucus. NOPE.

I buy this locally made dill-garlic spreadable goat cheese that I usually smear on crackers, but I never thought about putting it on a grilled cheese. om nom nom.

Eastern Carolina vinegar barbecue is a thing of wondrous joy, but I dunno, a dish of grits done RIGHT is awesome. (not the glutinous mass of crap served in Waffle House.)

Somewhere on the intarwebs - can’t look now - there is a great video of a guy deep-frying pierogies, with the inevitable result. The best part of the video is not the pierogies flinging themselves out at high velocity, but ... the guy *giggling* at it all. It’s great.

World Market, if you have one locally.

I’ve been known to change passwords to things like “accountstealer.”

There is: African Paradise.

There is: African Paradise.

Sort of? He’s been fired from three more companies over the years for basically the same thing.

I have a variation on that - I signed up with Gmail in 2004 and was able to get my first initial and last name, no numbers or hyphens involved. Well, there’s a Canadian, an Australian, and a Brit who also have the same first initial and last name who either keep using my specific email address, or with a period next…