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General life update time:
1. I posted some photos and words about my back porch gardening over on Tumblr. Peppers, tomatoes, and miscellaneous other plants.
2. Tomorrow I plan to attempt oven-roasted asparagus. The weird thing is that when I typed into Google "how to roast" the little window auto-suggested a whole bunch of things about asparagus. How the hell did the algorithm know??? There are many other vegetables I might want to roast! Like zucchini! I roast zucchini quite often! And I'm sure I haven't talked about purchasing asparagus anywhere online or on the phone. Is Google stalking my grocery purchases (and if so, how the hell), or is this just a question a lot of people with similar search histories to mine have been asking lately?
Anyway, I like asparagus.
3. On a vaguely related note, I've been reading First Bite: How We Learn To Eat by Bee Wilson, which has made me retroactively even more grateful to/for my parents than I already was. My mom has very firm ideas about meals, which my dad generally agrees with. These are that breakfasts should ideally contain some kind of fruit in addition to a carbohydrate and a protein, and dinners must include 1 protein, 1 carbohydrate, 1 vegetable, and 1 salad. (She's much less particular about lunches.) When Nick and I were little, the dinner salad was often a fruit salad for general "little kids like fruit" reasons. As we got older (and both developed various degrees of allergic reaction to raw fruits -- mine is more severe than Nick's, which is annoying since I liked fruit more to start with) this switched mostly to green leafy salads, but she's been known to allow coleslaw or various other kinds of Midwest church potluck mayonnaise-based salads.
( this got long and rambly )
This got away from me. Anyway. So far, the book is interesting, and I have good parents. (Perfect parents? No. No such creatures exist. But pretty darn good, all things considered.)
4. Work continues continuing. New Hire 4 and I are working our way through the list of apartments to figure out which ones both need new photographs and are currently available to go take pictures. Some we can't photograph at all this year because either the old tenants renewed for 2019-20 or the new tenants have already moved in, and we don't take photos of occupied apartments because that's creepy and wrong. Some we can't photograph right at the moment because either the old tenants haven't moved out yet or the Maintenance department hasn't finished turnover. But we're making pretty good progress, I think. :)
1. I posted some photos and words about my back porch gardening over on Tumblr. Peppers, tomatoes, and miscellaneous other plants.
2. Tomorrow I plan to attempt oven-roasted asparagus. The weird thing is that when I typed into Google "how to roast" the little window auto-suggested a whole bunch of things about asparagus. How the hell did the algorithm know??? There are many other vegetables I might want to roast! Like zucchini! I roast zucchini quite often! And I'm sure I haven't talked about purchasing asparagus anywhere online or on the phone. Is Google stalking my grocery purchases (and if so, how the hell), or is this just a question a lot of people with similar search histories to mine have been asking lately?
Anyway, I like asparagus.
3. On a vaguely related note, I've been reading First Bite: How We Learn To Eat by Bee Wilson, which has made me retroactively even more grateful to/for my parents than I already was. My mom has very firm ideas about meals, which my dad generally agrees with. These are that breakfasts should ideally contain some kind of fruit in addition to a carbohydrate and a protein, and dinners must include 1 protein, 1 carbohydrate, 1 vegetable, and 1 salad. (She's much less particular about lunches.) When Nick and I were little, the dinner salad was often a fruit salad for general "little kids like fruit" reasons. As we got older (and both developed various degrees of allergic reaction to raw fruits -- mine is more severe than Nick's, which is annoying since I liked fruit more to start with) this switched mostly to green leafy salads, but she's been known to allow coleslaw or various other kinds of Midwest church potluck mayonnaise-based salads.
( this got long and rambly )
This got away from me. Anyway. So far, the book is interesting, and I have good parents. (Perfect parents? No. No such creatures exist. But pretty darn good, all things considered.)
4. Work continues continuing. New Hire 4 and I are working our way through the list of apartments to figure out which ones both need new photographs and are currently available to go take pictures. Some we can't photograph at all this year because either the old tenants renewed for 2019-20 or the new tenants have already moved in, and we don't take photos of occupied apartments because that's creepy and wrong. Some we can't photograph right at the moment because either the old tenants haven't moved out yet or the Maintenance department hasn't finished turnover. But we're making pretty good progress, I think. :)
