Scrum Wednesday Morning

Work has been doing a scrum-style meeting every morning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)) for admin, so I thought I'd do something similar for me.

So, Yesterday I:
* Worked 8 hours, including a grocery run in the a.m. (which is also my home grocery shopping).
* Wrote 1168 words, including on two commissions and the giraffe call
* with T., stacked one wagonload (like this) of firewood
* took a 25-minute walk.
* oh, and did the cat litter

I found myself tired after work, so took after-dinner as a break-night and watched Dollhouse.

Adventures in Cooking

Yesterday, I learned:

That porchetta is a food item (Wikipedia says it is "a savoury, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition"). It is also a food item that our local grocery store sells.

That pancetta is a food item. (Wikipedia says that is is "is Italian bacon made of pork belly meat that is salt cured and spiced with black pepper and sometimes other spices").

That my husband's handwriting can make pancetta look exactly like porcetta (it's that a-n) and that I should really check the list in the evening, before I go to the grocery store at 8:30 a.m.

That the recipe I want to make later this week calls for pancetta, not porchetta.

And that porchetta is very tasty, and very different from pancetta.

Time to hit the local butcher's!

Chapter Thirteen: Some Fish Swim Best in the Air

“You’re measuring Social Aetherism?” Enrie stared at the device.

“I told you I was going to.” Tairiekie blinked at her friend in confusion. Saydrie, too, leaned forward, looking worried.

“Tairiekie… isn’t that heretical?” He sounded even more worried than he looked.

“I don’t think so?” She settled for putting the tea kettle over the steam output.

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A proof, of sorts, a story for Thimbleful Thursday

Thimbleful Thursday is a new microfic prompt site (mine!). This week's prompt was "Cut the Mustard" and the word limit was 500 (450-550).

This piece is 547 words, and it might soon become obvious what prompted it.

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"You're never going to be able to do it, you know."

Shut up.

"You're never going to make it. You're just not good enough."

Shut up!

"You might as well face it. There's people who can do this sort of thing - and then there's you."

Shut Shut Shut UP!

"Why don't you just give up?"

"Shut UP!"

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