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There are two main drawbacks to boeuf bourguignon or whatever you want to call what I made t'other day. The lesser one is that beef in chunks sticks between the teeth, requiring bottle brushes, water pics, *and* floss to get it all out. Bulgogi doesn’t have this problem because it's sliced thin, and hamburger of course is ground. The major drawback is beef itself and the effect cattle farming has on the planet. And Happy Cow beef is apparently even worse than mass-produced, because Happy Cows (or steers, I suppose) require even more pasturage. So yeah. Shall keep it as a rare treat.
Was vacuuming the front hall today and the hose pulled out from the body of the vacuum cleaner and wouldn't go back in. Consulted the handbook which was all cheerful 'snap the hose into the opening' which I did no probem the first time but this time no dice. Got it back in, apparently tight enough, went back to vacuuming, hose pulls out again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Finally after much swearing and sweating and Form follows function and Lefty loosey righty tighty, I got it to stay in and was able to finish cleaning up the detritus my rollator brings in when the sidewalks are wet and the trees are shedding the things trees shed. But argh. I wish my father had believed in education for girls, at least in things mechanical.
FB ads inform me that there's a new version of Romeo and Juiet the ballet, and ohhh but I'd love to see it. But there's the mobiity thing, whether I could bring my walker and stash it, and if I'd be able to move without it after sitting for an hour. And it's this week when the allergies have me coughing and sneezing non-stop, which I'd be doing masked but still. (And no guarantee the people around me would be masked themselves. Advised but not required, meaning no they wouldn't be.) And of course the prices, well over $100 for anything reasonable. Which I'd still pay if there weren't the other considerations. Ah well. I can't imagine the National Ballet will commission a work and only stage it one week. And some day I may be mobile again.
Was vacuuming the front hall today and the hose pulled out from the body of the vacuum cleaner and wouldn't go back in. Consulted the handbook which was all cheerful 'snap the hose into the opening' which I did no probem the first time but this time no dice. Got it back in, apparently tight enough, went back to vacuuming, hose pulls out again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Finally after much swearing and sweating and Form follows function and Lefty loosey righty tighty, I got it to stay in and was able to finish cleaning up the detritus my rollator brings in when the sidewalks are wet and the trees are shedding the things trees shed. But argh. I wish my father had believed in education for girls, at least in things mechanical.
FB ads inform me that there's a new version of Romeo and Juiet the ballet, and ohhh but I'd love to see it. But there's the mobiity thing, whether I could bring my walker and stash it, and if I'd be able to move without it after sitting for an hour. And it's this week when the allergies have me coughing and sneezing non-stop, which I'd be doing masked but still. (And no guarantee the people around me would be masked themselves. Advised but not required, meaning no they wouldn't be.) And of course the prices, well over $100 for anything reasonable. Which I'd still pay if there weren't the other considerations. Ah well. I can't imagine the National Ballet will commission a work and only stage it one week. And some day I may be mobile again.