Ariel points out that Demi (of Bunhead Bros) is correct in his observation that this episode is LOUD. I also learned that she hated town meetings in Gilmore Girls, as there was a town-meeting-type thing in this. I greatly enjoyed the town meetings.
We both agreed that it was good to see Sean Gunn, and also that his story was not great.
Here’s one. Mike Bennett had a popup shop near the Living Room Theaters and I bought this cute little ornament that has the old PDX airport carpet on it.
And the card holder has filled up nicely, though I know more are to come. When your card senders are teachers, often the cards aren’t dealt with until winter break begins.
And that’s it. Perhaps next year the decorations can start to appear again.
Having finished the bulk of the holiday prep, Matt and I had time to learn his new game: Turing Machine
It required a lot of concentration, but I had a fun time thinking through the logic scenarios. And I won, so there’s that.
Turing Machine is a welcome addition to the game shelf(ves).
We got some. Not snow. Not ice. But also slippery. I stayed indoors.
Shawn picked this card up for me! The Sterner-Schafer postcard game is great! Sara reports on this card that is dated 12/12 and postmarked 12/13 (where has it been hanging out for 10 days?) that arborists are doing some tree trimming.
I looked up the Penthouse. It’s an AirBnB and has two bedrooms and two bathrooms and is $263 a night. It looks like it’s in the same general area as the place we stayed at when we stayed in Eureka.
I’m waring multiple layers today.
Because the temperature is much too cold for Portland. Aside from the outdoor temperature, you will notice the indoor temperature. The upside of our house in the summer is that it’s really good at staying cool. When temperatures are high, our house is, by comparison, rather cool. But in the winter when temperatures go down, our house just keeps holding on to those cool temperatures.
Eventually I did turn on the cadet heater in my bedroom. Just to get through the work day.
Here is our new dishwasher. I don’t love that we’ve been buying during a period of stainless steel popularity. It’s hard to keep up with the fingerprints and I find the industrial look to not be very homey. But still, I’m excited to have a functional appliance.
I’m also excited for this separate silverware rack. No more forks getting tangled in the basket.
The old dishwasher was indeed leaking. I had to remove things from the under-sink cabinet for this install, and I could see where the wood warped due to water exposure. It also warped the cabinet wood in the next cabinet over, too.
Aside from a new dishwasher, we also welcomed a new microwave and range hood. I’ve long wanted a better range hood. The one that came with the house never seemed to work, and the handywoman who installed the cat door told me it was probably too far away to do any good. By filling the space with the microwave that was probably always intended, we can lower the fan much closer to the burners.
Less exciting (and super frustrating) is the fact that when we bought this unit in August, the salesperson neglected to tell us that we would need to have an outlet to plug the unit into. Had we been told in August, we could have gotten on the electrician’s list and it would have been installed by delivery time. Instead, we have this workaround. And an electrician appointment in March.
I was sad to read that Mr. Pitts will no longer be writing a weekly column, as he is one of my favorites. But I appreciate he will have more time to write novels, especially because I enjoyed the Last Thing You Surrender.
His final column was full of thanks. I enjoyed hearing how Dave Barry mentored him as he became a syndicated columnist and especially appreciated the shout-out to his copy editor. Come to think of it, he also gave more than a few words of thanks the copy editor of The Last Thing You Surrender. He’s a man who appreciates a good copy edit.
Thanks for the 1.6 million words, Leonard Pitts!
I hurried over to the post office thinking I had missed the deadline for delivery by Christmas and there wouldn’t be much of a line.
However, the line was out the door. Apparently I missed the first-class deadline, but not the priority mail one. I decided to wait, since I was already there, and the line moved quickly. My presents are on their way to their recipients! Nearly all Christmas prep is done!
In August, when the stove died, we also bought a dishwasher because ours was making a lot of concerning sounds and we learned with the stove that if you need to buy something today your choices are limited. So we have waited nearly four months for the arrival of said dishwasher, but the day has nearly arrived and the new dishwasher will be delivered tomorrow!
In late September, the floorboards in the front room started to warp. I thought about it for about a week or so before I put together the small amount of water that sometime appeared at the foot of the dishwasher with the fact that perhaps even more water was coming from the dishwasher and getting under the floorboards. So we stopped using the dishwasher for a two-week trial.
And the floors went down a little, so we just kept hand washing the dishes. Talk about a chore that is thankless! I remembered why, in my pre-dishwasher days, I only kept four forks available.
This was the dishwasher that came with the house and it’s showing its age. Matt got tired of having to carefully place the silverware in the basket to avoid the holes and he bought us a new basked a few years ago. But the rest has done hard work getting our dishes clean for 15 years. You can see how some of the prongs on the racks have broken off and become rusty.
While I think 15 years is a bit on the low side…[pause for googling]…No, and Consumer Reports says 10 years is how long many dishwasher last. So we got an extra 5 years out of ours. Thanks dishwasher, for all your cleaning power!
