No offense, but your friend sounds super entitled. She's privileged enough to have disposable income for a frivolity like a coffee, and begrudges a worker who is exposed constantly to risk for other privileged frivolity-purchasers. Your friend needs to give her head a shake. 

Pasta a oglio. All. The. Way. Serves 2.

You could just, you know, play the original. Not hard to come by these days. 

Older Bassbeast Jr. turned 10 today. We celebrated by giving him presents a little bit bigger than we would normally, went on a three-hour walk on quiet side streets catching Pokemon with Younger Bassbeast Jr. Came home, and had a brief visit with my 75-year old father who, through various travel circumstances, we…

“duck fat chocolate chip cookie...”

Older Bassbeast Jr. has a birthday coming up tomorrow (10), so I’m making his birthday cake, pre-rubbing some ribs, and will be wrapping his gifts once he goes to bed. Presents include Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee and, in lieu of him being able to have a party, his very own Switch Lite (so we can have our TV back and give…

Please let me know how it is! It was my late mother’s contribution to my weird cuisine. (she gave me tons more valuable, high brow stuff; this is the best weird one I got.) 

I will personally order you a case of your favorite peanut butter if I'm wrong. Or is this why I'm always still in the grays? :p

Toasted peanut butter and tomato sandwich, some Malden salt on the tomato. I promise you will be a Happy Zack. 

Don’t be Birdist, Zack. 

You don’t have to explain anything to that asshat. He does not need any explanation or justification from you any more than you need to find out who pissed in his Cheerios this morning. 

You are such an asshole. Don't go near the opposite sex so you don't have a possibility to procreate. 

I took a chocolate chip cookie base, added a bit more flour and threw everything in: nuts, dried blueberries and cranberries, coconut, extra dark chocolate chunks, mixed that ish up and baked it. In the words of Mrs. Bassbeast, they were "fucking delicious." 

Honestly, keeping a schedule. When time has no meaning, you have to organize it yourself or you go insane. Kids have a fixed bedtime and we follow it. We have time for art, inquiry, outdoor exercise, meal prep, movie/TV time, social time, etc. and we stick with it.

This morning went something like this: Article on Scholastic (https://dynamath.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/100119/candy-creations.html#880L) which is a great launch point. Kids wanted to know more about candy art. Discovered Japanese candy art with our first Google search. Kids noticed it looked like glass rather…

I’ve been doing a little bit each day for my two kids. It’s hard, especially with my younger one with some issues. But one thing that really has helped us is we spend an hour a day doing what we’re dubbing Inquiry. Basically, we make our way through the online Scholastic magazine, read an article together, then ask a…

Toasted peanut butter and tomato. Don't knock it 'til you try it. 

It sucks. So hard. Scared all the time. Tired all the time. My family wears me out and I have nowhere to go. I hate this existence right now. I hate having to home school my kids from. 9-4, then working my online job after that. I hate not sleeping. I hate stress eating. I hate wondering if my allergies are maybe the…

Final Fantasy 6 (3) on SNES. Because everything about it is amazing. The best soundtrack. The best sprite work to grace an RPG. Characters with arcs, pathos and depth. A huge cast. You literally have the world end, then it’s an open world RPG. And it has an opera.

Final Fantasy 6 (3) on SNES. Because everything about it is amazing. The best soundtrack. The best sprite work to…

Not a financial advisor, but basic math says if cash flow isn't a problem, then why pay more later? Forbearance will ultimately cost you more in interest - sometimes as much as a full percentage point on a mortgage! - so it's like a really expensive loan for yourself.