Number One: Instant Pot. This device is apparently the go-to appliance for anyone with lots of desire but little talent. You don’t even have to turn the thing on. It’s automatic in every way. You don’t have to gather the ingredients either, they appear instantly, like on Star Trek. For me: Oreo cookies + Cookies …
Author Archives: Kurt Gailey
Patience and Regrets
“I won’t wait ’til tomorrow.” Is there anything wrong with this policy of life? Oh right. There’s the problem of being unprepared. Add to that the problem of being naive. And then there’s the problem of timing. Each of these can be compounding problems. If you’re unprepared, it means you don’t have the necessary tools …
Sour to Sweet
The cumulative effects of a week can make you sour. My own experience is that by Friday of a work week I can be super irritable. But the weekend can erase my bad mood. As long as I get some time off, I can be fine by Monday. Are you the same? You just need …
Project
It’s going to be one of those days. Bare your teeth a little more. Make sure everyone stays far away. Lay yourself down and refuse to move—unless one of the others around you get too close, and then STRIKE! Draw blood if needed. Sink your claws in so deep they won’t forget even long after …
Decorating Reason
“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.” ~Isaac Asimov Warpgender cisspecies. Cisgender warpspecies. Latentgender crackpipespecies. Absentgender fungalspecies. Such mindless philosophies. The word cisgender makes sense to me, with its meaning of “you are what you are”, but the alternatives people want …
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