Rose and I enjoy making tamales over the holidays. Some of our fondest memories of traveling in Mexico in December are having tamales, fruit, and hot chocolate for breakfast or lunch. By making large batches of tamales and freezing single-meal packs, we’re able to enjoy tamales like this on occasional weekends throughout the year.
Extended Holiday Plumbing
How often have we heard horror stories about something going unexpectedly wrong with the plumbing over the holidays and causing a catastrophic loss of seasonal joy? Ours was self inflicted.
Gravity Check on Aisle Stupid!
Rose and I were making dinner the other night when I did something careless and got a quick gravity check. It’s nice to know you can count on something, I thought as I cleaned the floor. In fact, I got a chuckle, thinking that gravity checks were one of the main reasons the TV program America’s Funniest Videos (AFV) exists. I hadn’t seen that show in a long time but had recently watched an episode and was reminded of just how ubiquitous, misjudged, and funny gravity can be.
This wasn’t my only recent encounter with excessively exuberant gravity. I had another lesson hammered home this fall that kept me from hunting.
Two Factor Fuckery
We were recently forced to adopt two-factor authentication (2FA) to access our university accounts, including our email. I am in favor of security, so I was willing to try it out (though it was not optional). I use it for banking and find it an inconvenience there, but I can live with it because I use it infrequently and the consequences of having my finances hacked are horrific to contemplate.
Cleanhoggin
The COVID pandemic brought one unexpected but appreciated change to our lives at home. When you’re not out among your fellowman as often or as closely, you might quickly drift into a less frequent bathing regimen. You’re more on a self-sniff schedule in setting those bathing parameters, with a little help from your partner.