It’s official. We live in the Upside Down.

I ended up with a 16 pound whole pasture-raised pork shoulder (I was expecting the roughly 6-pound Boston butt I had ordered and paid for, but someone misread the packing slip), and I braised a big hunk of it in beer, mustard, and onions on Sunday. It is waiting in the fridge to have the fat skimmed off, and then to…

I also had a brief stint at a commercial bakery (we made organic flatbreads that people could use as pizza shells or open up and stuff like pita), and the 2 hours at the crack of dawn when I was the only person in the kitchen was the best part of my day.

I think a lot of people would be “fat and happy” living and working in a gorgeous home with professionally-maintained gardens, a staff of assistants, and no pesky children or pets to get in the way of regular bridge games, lunches with fabulous friends, and regular trips to the Paris apartment. A lifestyle that allows…

It’s still a thing of beauty and made me snort laugh at my desk for far longer than would be considered polite.

I love you.

Ugh. Landon. I cannot stand that child. Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard, she is dumb as a post, and last season she revealed herself to be a petty, spiteful mean girl too. Her desperation is painful to witness, and all she seems to have going for her is a pretty face.

I wonder if England would be willing to take over again.

“Come on guys, quit picking on me. I don’t want to talk about boring stuff, I just want to legalize weed!”

I found the Unitarian church about a decade ago when my daughter was an infant. I had sporadically attended church (some brand or another of Protestant) as a kid, but had been fairly traumatized as a teenager by what I now refer to as “weaponized christianity” so I had no use for religion for a good long time. My wife…

The national anthem at the super bowl is what sold me.

I had a roommate in college who was rescued from Viet Nam during the war. She was a year or two old when she was adopted by one of the American servicemen who found her and several others in an orphanage that had been abandoned. She never knew anything about how she ended up in the US, what had happened to her, etc.…

Yaaaaas Queen!

I was going to say something like that. I have a beagle-black lab mix who is basically a black beagle, and she has that same face on no matter what’s happening. She does “puppydog eyes” like a boss.

The target demographic is white people who say things like, “I’m not racist, but [insert horribly racist statement here].”

I would have given up long ago. Like, I would have stayed behind to get blown up at the CDC. I am too lazy for post-apocalyptic dystopia.

Chipotle is one of the handful of chain options within 2 blocks of my school, which I drive to immediately after work. If I want to eat dinner on a school night, it’s Chipotle, Subway, D’Angelo, Papa Ginos, Panda Express, Starbucks, Panera, or Dunkin Donuts. It’s all terrible (Panera being the best of the worst), and…

Tell that to my wife’s employer. She routinely works 50-60 hours a week for a salary based on 40 hours, and when she took a half day for a medical procedure a few weeks ago, the payroll office took 4 hours of her vacation time to “cover” the absence. When she told me about it and asked what she should say when she…

This is straight out of a Criminal Minds episode.

My state (MA) is doing it for the first time this year, and I intend to take advantage tomorrow afternoon as soon as I get out of work.