What's everyone up to right now?

[Seraphina]

I just remembered that I baked a pumpkin pie last Thanksgiving but I didn't get to enjoy a piece because it was all gone by the time I was ready to eat some. So this year I'm making 2 pumpkin pies.
I need to brush up on my crust-making skills so I'm going to make an apple pie today.

And the sky doesn't look as smoky today as it has been so my kid and I may actually be able to leave the house and breathe in some outdoor air this weekend!

-Teresa

Might I make a recommendation?

Sugar Pie Crust (2-9in)
Ingredients:
   • 1 egg
   • 6 tablespoons white sugar
   • 1 tsp salt
   • 3 cups all-purpose flour
   • 1 cup butter, cut into pieces
Directions
   1. In a small bowl, mix egg and sugar together. In a separate bowl, combine salt and flour. Cut in butter. Stir in egg mixture, then knead dough into a smooth ball. Keep refrigerated for 15 minutes.
   2. Roll dough to 1/8 of an inch thickness and place it in pie pan; prick edges with a fork.

This is an incredibly easy and very tasty crust. I usually add about a half teaspoon if cinnamon when making apple or pumpkin pie.

That does look easy and tasty, thank you! I just finished the pie using a new recipe and it's in the oven. The crust came out good this time. It's usually too dry. Thank you Good Housekeeping cookbook!

-Teresa

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Just had to reprimand my duplex neighbor for throwing something heavy repeatedly against the building. A grown man playing ball with himself on his tiny back patio. Where the hell do these people come from?

-Teresa

[The Valkyrie]

Sleep in Sunday!!

Phone call at 7.18am.

One of my patients has presented at the hospital with serious chest pains. Can I come in?

*sigh*

Got home just before 2pm.

[Little lunch]

I promised my girl a small breed puppy for her birthday.
Can't find one under a thousand dollars and that's without vaccinations.
I've spent at least 4 hours this morning on the internet looking.

When I was a boy you would have looked in the paper and found all dogs available.
These days the internet has fucked up everything and made it so hard to find anything.

In other news, an unusually large blue tongued lizard has taken up residence in my yard and I'm delighted.

[Fireball]

Might I make a recommendation?

Sugar Pie Crust (2-9in)
Ingredients:
   • 1 egg
   • 6 tablespoons white sugar
   • 1 tsp salt
   • 3 cups all-purpose flour
   • 1 cup butter, cut into pieces
Directions
   1. In a small bowl, mix egg and sugar together. In a separate bowl, combine salt and flour. Cut in butter. Stir in egg mixture, then knead dough into a smooth ball. Keep refrigerated for 15 minutes.
   2. Roll dough to 1/8 of an inch thickness and place it in pie pan; prick edges with a fork.

This is an incredibly easy and very tasty crust. I usually add about a half teaspoon if cinnamon when making apple or pumpkin pie.

That does look easy and tasty, thank you! I just finished the pie using a new recipe and it's in the oven. The crust came out good this time. It's usually too dry. Thank you Good Housekeeping cookbook!

-Teresa

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Just had to reprimand my duplex neighbor for throwing something heavy repeatedly against the building. A grown man playing ball with himself on his tiny back patio. Where the hell do these people come from?

-Teresa

Dolts. Dolts everywhere. It could be worse. Where I used to work, there was a cadre of individuals who used to smear their boogers on other people's stuff.  I shit snot you not.  Though there was at least one individual with a propensity for smearing shit on the restroom walls, as well.

[Angrboda]

Eating white chocolate & raspberry sandwich cookies and drinking strawberry orange banana fruit drink.

If any more serious and disturbing issues coming calling for me later in this evening, let them know that I am in my happy place and do not wish to be disturbed.

[Jackalope]

Throwing back some pints at my neighborhood pub.

[ignoramus]

Sleep in Sunday!!

Phone call at 7.18am.

One of my patients has presented at the hospital with serious chest pains.  Can I come in?

*sigh*

Got home just before 2pm.

Jesus Christ, are you the only cardio in NZ!
I hope you're on extra ridiculous standby fees!

As opposed to your normal ridiculous fees I mean!

[Fireball]

I'm having some overheating issues with my old truck. Just got done throwing some shade on some guys who think they know more than I about thermodynamics and engineering. I was nice. Sort of. Actually, no, I wasn't. Too fucking bad. Don't tell me I'm wrong, vociferously, and not expect a boomeringue effect.

[The Valkyrie]

Sleep in Sunday!!

Phone call at 7.18am.

One of my patients has presented at the hospital with serious chest pains.  Can I come in?

*sigh*

Got home just before 2pm.

Jesus Christ, are you the only cardio in NZ!
I hope you're on extra ridiculous standby fees!

As opposed to your normal ridiculous fees I mean!

No, but I'm on call for emergencies for my patients. Doesn't happen often, thankfully.

At least my boat's now paid for!



Kidding! I don't get paid that much.

[Rev. Rye]

Went to HPB and bought A 4-pack of Moliere plays translated by Richard Wilbur, That Championship Season on DVD, and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Oryx and Crake. I got interested in the last one after finding an article from Barnes and Noble recommending a book for every episode of Black Mirror, and that was the recommendation for "Metalhead." And looking at the plot summary on Wikipedia, it looked a lot more interesting this time around, since, the last time I read that summary, it looked like a novel about some people who survived the apocalypse by turning into animals, but this time around, a closer read of the synopsis and TVTropes making me really intrigued by Crake (an autistic genius named after Glenn Gould who's turned to omnicide; I can so relate to that), I decided to give it a chance, and, wonder of wonders, they actually had the British hardcover edition (which I preferred partly due to the cover art, but mostly because Bloomsbury doesn't put those jagged deckle edges on the fucking pages like Knopf did.)

Also, I went to see Doubt at Oakton. It was pretty good, and the sisters were the glue holding the production together. Father Flynn was played by a Guatemalan with slicked-back hair, which led to him not looking terribly priestly (especially for a New York Catholic school in 1964 with a single black student,) although he did look like he connected with the nonexistent kids. Unfortunately, he was really bad at building up ambiguity about whether or not he's actually guilty. Philip Seymour Hoffman took me until this scene for me to make a decision one way or another:





Also, Mrs. Muller looked and sounded way too young to have had a 12-year-old son.