#ooc

At TJ? In large parts, yes. I lurk a lot on my watch when I can so I had bits and pieces, and I scanned it after.

gotcha

Ellie is in trooouuubbblllleeeee

I di dnot get as much done today as I wanted

upstairs is not great with AC

was too hot to sew up there

I thought you folks lived up north!

jk .. i know it can get warm

this is WHY I live up north

95 outside, and the upstairs just gets hot and stuffy

DH: "C'mere Jewel, good girl... ok... yes, good girl......shit shit shit shit shit....."
Shady: "DH? You ok? Need help?"
DH: "I was medicating Jewel's ear. But I just poured shampoo in it."
Shenanigans ensue
(Scene)

ohhhh

RL is so much better than the stuff I write

RL lacks structure, but it rich in episodes

My RL needs better costume and prop design.....

agreed

mmmm

When B goes away on Sat, after that, group hopes to game here.

whee!

board or ttrpg?

TTRPG

That's going to be nice, D.

I hope so. I am rusty at Pathfinder

ehhh

wing it, it'll be fine

Of course, getting them to make characters is like pulling teeth

premades?

Ah, you begin to undersatnd the nature of my trouble

ohhh, there have to be templates online

No no... they want to make their own choices of this or that...

which I should be fine for... only two of them have me making characters

One wants to pick everything but doesn't know the system

another trusts me to build but I can't get her to pick a race yet

Argh.

oof

Kind ofa KEY part of things that all other stuff is built on

One of my very dearest, longest, friends posts:
Ok y’all folks that have been posting rapturous soliloquies extolling the virtues of golden beets: What’s your favorite way to prepare them? I received some today & I need some pointers.
For those who are aghast at my non-veggie loving ways - so far this week I’ve had yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, asparagus and mushrooms (and it’s only Wednesday!)
Help a girl out & speak to me of golden beets.

(She gets many helpful responses.... and then I post.....)

Yep! Drizzle with olive oil, S&P, roast hot until fork tender, mash with butter, chia and flex seed, spoon onto bed of quinoa, chuck in the garbage and substitute with ice cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream. Add cherry if you need fruit.

heh

...

I do not like beets

I have never had yellow ones

but oh god, my mother LOVES beets.

I do not either, much, although same, never had yellow ones.

And they TAINT things

one touch of beet, and the purple stain will not come clean

EVAR.

and good lord, red beet eggs

whhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

BRB

“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...

The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies.

The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.”

― Tom Robbins