It’s Christmas Eve morning. Soon we begin driving all around the metro for two days of family time with five different familial configurations. But for now I am settled in at my desk, in pajamas, dutifully backing up my computers. And attempting to get some last minute photo editing done. Naturally I’m taking a break to round up all of the oddball tabs I have been keeping open in my browser. Merry Christmas!
Five or more totally random good and/or interesting things:
- “Author Neil Gaiman read from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol yesterday at nypl using Dickens’ own edits and prompts from 150 years ago.”
- My friend Luke Heiken is the mind behind Drone Not Drones. I’m looking forward to a weekend of drone at The Cedar. February 7th & 8th, 2014.
- A few years ago, when I stopped being vegan full-time and started consuming dairy again, I jumped on the Greek yogurt bandwagon. Until I read about the terrible toxic byproducts it produces. Read about it here Whey too much: Greek Yogurt’s dark side and here The bitter truth about Greek yogurt: it’s producing millions of pounds of toxic waste. A better alternative? Homemade laban! And I don’t say that just because I’m Lebanese. Here are two recipes to try.
- Every year I see the Austin Psych Fest lineup announcement and I think meh. Usually there are only a few bands I really want to see there. But not 2014! It’s like the line-up was tailor made for me. And I would think about going. But this year it’s happening right after our big Seattle/Portland trip, and just before a potential to trip to North Carolina, and way too danged close to when we’re supposed to move house. Doh. Go if you can. Do it for me.
- I can get behind this idea. Forget Golf Courses: Subdivisions Draw Residents With Farms
- Cool for Cats - one of my favorite cat ladies. With slideshow. And in non-feline animal news, in this aquarium you can shake hands with otters. YES PLEASE. Oh, and in non-real animal news, Beericorn. Nuff said.
Yesterday afternoon a minor Christmas miracle occurred. Just before closing time the auto body shop called to say my old Mazda was ready for pick up. I was able to leave the rental car there and drive away in my car, no muss no fuss. Felt good. So much more comfortable than that beastly and awkward automatic. Driving my little manual hatchback feels so right. And since the other driver’s insurance company just sunk another $2,000 of work into the old girl I feel obligated to ease some more life out of her. Pretty much all of the big ticket items have been replaced in the last couple of years anyhow. So the end of that fiasco was a huge relief. You’d think I would have slept soundly last night. But no. RANDOM INSOMNIA. For no real reason. I fell asleep on the couch watching a movie with the boyfriend around 10pm and barely remember relocating to the bedroom. But around 1am I was WIDE AWAKE. And remained that way until 5am. Not so awesome. I went back to the couch for the interim, so as not to disturb the boyfriend, and desperately attempted to fall asleep again. In doing so I stumbled upon an Anthony Bourdain show I hadn’t heard of. The Layover. And I wish we’d found his episode on Montreal before we visited last summer. There’s so much we missed! We’ll just have to go back. Hopefully before too long.
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