Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

All the toys with packaging in the office are repacked and put away for putting into boxes. It doesn't seem like I did much, but it sure felt huge.

Alice Brock
1941-2024

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/22/alice-brock-alices-restaurant-dies

Wow, it's been three days since the windstorm, and power is still out for a ton of folks. We were lucky to get ours back up in a about 12 hours....

Spending a scant few moments in my virtual Las Vegas apartment.

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.