Pendergast 13 and FFS 20 year old Corrie Swanson is a dumbass.

Neither B nor I have been able to get warm all day. It’s not cold - mid to upper 50s - but it has been overcast the entire day & just humid enough to get that damp cold when it’s not actually cold that I usually associate w/Seattle winter. Anyway, making chicken & rice about it w/a _lot_ of butter

Ok. Fine. There’s a very light rain coming down at the vet’s now. (Leopold arthritis shot)

I am also fat and my cardiovascular health is fine. Maybe lay off the “he’s fat; of course he’s unhealthy” rhetoric. Nothing about his presidency would be any less bad if he were slim.

Idk where in Pensacola the weather app gets its rain info, but it is not near my house. Hard fro drizzle to stop in 22 min when there hasn’t been any rain for weeks. Must be the airport. It said there was over a half inch yesterday & I saw not one drop.

Apparently “executive physicals” are a real if overwrought thing. An example: hoagexecutivehealth.com/executive-ph... Though there’s no way there was any fitness testing or “action plan” for Trump.

This week’s Legislative Preview is out! Congress: a chaotic wreck or functional? Why not both? www.govtrack.us/posts/556/20...

Susan is purring, demanding pets and has her floof tail on. It’s extremely cute.

MTG’s exit is a sideshow — but it spotlights what’s truly broken in the House. The real fix starts with organized blocs and serious rules reform. How would that work? Glad you asked....

Looking through the sci-fi books list on Libby and it includes a number of titles by Tim LaHaye (the rapture books dude). I tended to scroll past pretty quickly, but I saw that one won or was a finalist for a “Christy” award. I assume that’s not named after a woman. Good grief. 🙄

Looking for a side dish to go with pork chops. Had a can of cannellini beans & some grape tomatoes about to go off. Reddit came through! No amounts, but then I just eyeballed everything anyway. 350° for 20 min; added the cheese & another 10. Oh, forgot the thyme; didn’t matter.

Grr. That burner is still definitely running hot. Maybe not as much as before, but everything I’ve tried still cooks a lot faster; even when between 2 & 4 which should be barely heated.

Play Nice by Rachel Harrison is _great_. Demons in every way as well as the unreliability of memory and how insidious fear can be.

FFS. Just deleted the fourth or fifth fundraising text from Mark Kelly. Way to increase cynicism among democratic voters. “I know, I’ll make a deliberately provocative video about the President. When he bites, then I’ll rake in the cash.” Ugh. Stop.

Sigh. Leopold peed on the big comforter. I got it in the machine, barely. Fingers crossed it actually gets cleaned. Then I get to wash the other stuff that got peed on. 🙄 and Sweetie knocked the container of treats off the kitchen table that I’d only brought in bc I panned to grind more up later.

Def did not remember that there’s basically a full tennis match in Strangers on a Train.

Watching Strangers on a Train again for the first time in a long enough time that I don’t remember a lot of it. So far the scene of the tennis audience with Bruno in the middle is my favorite in this re-watch.

This is my friend Tanya’s cat Frankie. He’s made it through surgery, but she’s deep in debt for it. Tanya runs a volunteer cat rescue, but this is her baby. Any support you can offer would mean a lot. www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

I guess I’ll be finding somewhere else to sit for a while. I’ll never tire of the part in Susan’s belly fur.

Well at least the library did have Play Nice by Rachel Harrison as an ebook. (They also have Cackle, but audio only).

I don’t want to shut Sweetie away or have to wear an apron (I just hate them), so I will deep clean the kitchen counters, but w/vinegar & not bleach. It’ll be fine, if stinky for a bit.

Something like 1569 books added in the last 30 days that Libby lists as available now for West FL Public Libraries & easily 1500 are romances. I’m glad the romance fans have options. Wish there was a smidge more that gets anywhere near my taste.

Good grief the sheer quantity of cowboy, aristocracy (esp Dukes for some reason) & shifter romances is overwhelming. Yeesh. (Yep, trying to find something not matching the above description available now; I’m on p. 12 of 67 & there’s been 1)

I know it’s a satire, but the climatic scene in Fever Beach is at a polling place & all I can think (admittedly between snorts of laughter) is “ok, but there shd be a poll deputy & there would be a 150’ perimeter inside of which these yo-yos couldn’t go” (and which for story reasons 100% are inside)

A great way to spend a #caturday afternoon. (Even better would be if everyone got along well enough that the other two cats were here)

Also starting Say Nothing, a nonfiction book about a murder during The Troubles and I am very pleased to hear the narrator is Irish or extremely good at accents

I guess the good news is that now my right AirPod is the one that drained faster? Like, I don’t think it’s a hardware problem.

Yay! Leopold is back to just over 10 lbs. Whatever bug he had seems to have run its course. Alas, my attempt to increase food resources in hopes that this would maybe improve relations between Susan and Sweetie only resulted in Susan eating a bunch more while Sweetie & Padma maintained. +

Hm. Dunno. Burner still seems to be running hot. Not as much as before maybe. Have to cook some more stuff to be sure I guess.

This MAC knife is a mighty nice knife. Now to see how the new burner switch does. So far so good.

Seeking funding for my Hot Ones knockoff. It's exactly the same as Hot Ones, except for every question you eat a pizza roll that was microwaved for 5 seconds longer than the last.

This morning I saw two bald eagles ice fishing on the Kenilworth Lagoon at Lake of the Isles. You don’t see that every day.

Reading Fever Beach, the latest Carl Hiaasen book. One of the main characters is a barely differentiated Matt Gaetz and woo do I love Hiaasen in extra-mean mode. The _contempt_ leaping from the page is truly sustaining.

I had asked* for a single chef’s knife last year for Christmas. But my step-Mom likes to show love with volume. So she got that one (MAC MTH-80; I am extremely excited to try it tonight) _and_ 5 others. *as in they asked me what I wanted & “I’m good; really I don’t need anything” didn’t work +

Not only do we do the intended stove fix, but tightened up the screw holding the handle onto the oven door (every time I opened it I’d think I should figure out how fix this loose handle when it’s cooled off and promptly forget) and maybe made the bottom drawer more usable.

Woohoo! The left front burner that we use for 90% of the stovetop cooking is fixed! The aftermarket replacement wasn’t as well made as the original (B had to get rid of so errant plastic blocking a screw hole), but it’s all put back together!

Ok. Now we know. If the LED overhead light gets weird, just take off the lid & fuck with it & then it’ll start working again. Upside: it was time for a clean. Not a _lot_ of dead bugs, but more than zero.

Sometime between turning it off last night & turning on this morning, one of the bulbs in our primary kitchen light died. So before we can finish the fix to the stove we get to go to Lowe’s for another light. V much hoping it’s not going to be a horrible Black Friday situation.

I cannot get warm. This is not standard for me to say the least. I don’t have a fever. Breaking out the comforter for the night or until I finally get too hot.

Disorienting moment coming out of the rest stop building and seeing a car that is the same model, color and probably year with a woman in the passenger seat in big sunglasses looking at her phone. Kept thinking “wait, but I’m out here; how can I be in there?”

Howto win Sam the Mini-Poodle’s affection: sit in his favorite chair with him & give him chews.

Still not sure what the filmmakers meant when they had Denise Crosby’s Girlboss character in Miracle Mile open a Halliburton style briefcase containing a mobile phone, a keyboard and a Cliff Notes version of Gravity’s Rainbow which she started speed reading. Such a weird film.

We’re listening to @scalzi.com Constituent Services on the way up. Not sure what we’ll listen to on the way back.

About 1/3 of the way to Dad & Betty’s! Nice day with minimal traffic so far. Too bad it’ll change as soon as we switch over to I-65.

Eastwood does do a good job of showing how Jewell did _not_ help himself. Man would have benefitted from a brief period of #acab

It’s taken 29 years but I just realized why I find the Macarena so silly: it looks like the pat down you do before you leave the house to make sure you’ve got your keys & glasses.

The Gambler is just an incredibly irritatingly catchy song. Gonna be hearing it in my head for days now.

Watching Richard Jewell (directed by Clint Eastwood). The extremely cynical & unkind presentation of the hot female journalist suddenly feels less over the top and I resent Olivia Nuzzi for it. Tho not, I’m sure, as much as all the other female journalists out there.

As I sit here thinking I just want to watch a movie I’ve seen before (not sure which), Ed’s line in Shaun of the Dead hits home in a way it never did before: I just want some place familiar, where I know where the exits are and I can smoke.” Ironically, I’m not actually in the mood for SotD.

Padma with the quality toe flex.