Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Yesterday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A day where we remember people who were killed for being who they are.

What will you do today to make sure there is no need for a vigil tomorrow?

No wonder the internet keeps popping in and out.

Quick heads up. Power is out, internet is spotty. Big wind storm. We're okay.

Listen neighbor, I'm someone who is a late sleeper, so I'm not going to mind this, but our other neighbors will NOT be happy you're running a very loud generator at 11:30PM.

I got three power banks at 100%, and months of MREs to eat...

...but I had work to do!

That's a big fella. Apparently we won't be hit by it, but the winds being sucked into it are going to hit us in a few hours....

Well that was quick. The cruelty is the point.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/republican-introduce-bathroom-bill-banning-transgender/story?id=115989977

I have so much buttermilk, I can't eat this many waffles...

...wait, don't I have Threadgill's cookbook? And didn't they have a buttermilk pie? And Thanksgiving is coming up?

BUTTERMILK PIE IT IS!

Well, I guess after yesterday's 12 hour sleep, one where I got almost no sleep was inevitable.

Ice Cream #4: Blue Moon

So, because I accidentally used buttermilk in my strawberry ice cream, I still had a cup of frozen cream left, so I looked around for another regional ice cream flavor I could make, and came across "Superman."

But one of the ingredients of Superman, named for the color, was "Blue Moon." I decided to go with that first, and try Superman some other time. And Blue Moon is GOOD.

Basically, if you want the flavor of Blue Moon, go eat some Froot Loops Cereal with a LOT of milk. Let it soak in there a good while, then eat the Froot Loops. And all the milk left over? THAT'S the taste of Blue Moon. In fact, if you could add some crushed froot loops this would be amazing.

This one was made with frozen raspberries, which it recommends if you can't find raspberry extract or oil. I wouldn't do it that way as the seeds get into the ice cream (I don't mind that), but the raspberries don't incorporate well, or deliver a strong raspberry flavor.

But I'd totally make this again.

My recipe book has 182 recipes....

Subway got me started on putting salt and pepper on my sandwiches.

Today I finally burned through ALLLLL the stamps I had accumulated when my PO Box was at the American Philatelic Society, and they had all the cool stamps.

That was 1997. So, 27 years? :)

I guess I needed twelve hours of sleep.

If there's any happiness all this extended unemployed time has given me it's sleep time. I sleep when I need to for as long as I need to.

Gonna miss that.

Today I pulled out all the boxes for my stuff, as I get ready to pack. I don't throw boxes away mainly because they're DESIGNED to protect the contents, so if I need to move I can just put the stuff back in its box.

It really does feel like a defeat, though. I was supposed to start this last month, but kinda waffled until today when circumstances said "you have the time, Jenn, it's time to start."

It shouldn't take long to put the stuff that has boxes back into them. From there, we pack those into packing boxes, and pack stuff that's just loose. Then into storage. Then break down the furniture.

Still, trying really hard not to see this as a defeat. But it's hard not it. I still have a month to find work that'll keep me here. But that's quickly looking like it's not going to happen.

@socketwench - I love that end narration. "The Planet Earth is now dead."

That ending was suggested by Heston, if I remember right, as a way to make sure "NO MORE SEQUELS." The original ending was that the bomb goes off, supposedly killing everyone inside, but life goes on.

Decades later, though, a hand breaks through the rocks, and it's the hand of a gorilla. A MUTATED hand of a gorilla. With a rifle. And...get this...the first thing it does is kill a dove.

SYMBOLISM.

@socketwench -

Heston wanted nothing to do with any sequels. He felt it blunted the message of the first movie. In fact, the only way they could get him back was to kill him off, which was supposed to happen at the beginning of the movie. They moved it to the end.

He even donated his pay to charity.

@socketwench - They chose James Franciscus cause he looked like Charlton Heston Jr. :)