I am celebrating this day by eating more Rolos than I should. At least they are filled with ooey-gooey caramel so you have to eat them more slowly, which is good. But they are 200% sugar. So that’s bad. I’m…
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It’s the Smell
I cut down several trees this weekend, though it wasn’t the axe-swinging cathartic event I’d hoped. The first was a Chinese elm that had sprung up in a row of hedges in front of our house. Beautiful multi-trunked thing and…
Bad Hair Life
At some point in my childhood I decided to Take Charge of my appearance. No more sweaty mud-stained corduroys. I began first with my hair. For the formative years it was a straight (or slightly crooked) bowl cut. Standard…
Bzzz…bzzz…
Zap! That’s the sound of something in my brain short-circuiting when I saw my December electric bill. $540! That’s not a bill, it’s a shiv in the ribs while someone pins your arms and empties your pockets. We just…
Almost-face
Had a dream early this morning, 4:30-ish. I was crouching behind my laundry basket because of a threat of terrorists. I was traveling abroad at the time. I heard them coming, chanting “Nagata nagata” very quickly, like machine-gun fire. I…
Explosions etc.
It’s a mixed bag today. Jujubees, peanuts, and that weird orange dried fruit you always leave until the end. I managed to shatter two baking stones while making bread this weekend. Evidently super-heated iron skillet plus cheap baking stone…
Futurocon the Vacuum!
The future is as exhilarating as I thought it would be, though I am not wearing a silver unitard. Yet. My wife found a great deal on a Roomba online, and it arrived a week or so ago. A…
Cockpit Cool
In case you are ever worried about your safety aboard an aircraft, take a listen to the exchange between LaGuardia Tower Air Traffic Control, Teterboro Tower, and Captain Sullenberger of US Airways Flight 1549. What you’ll notice absent is…
Why Crows are as Exciting as Elephants
This Sunday, Baby Harbat (daughter), wife, our friends’ 2-year-old daughter and I all went to the zoo. First half: dozey-eyed staring at every exhibit of birds, monkeys, and sleeping pandas. Middle: lunchtime of either frightening continuous consumption (my daughter), or…
Bread! Bread! Circus.
I’ve started to make bread. In the last 6 months I’ve made several types by various methods. It’s the smell…if there is such a thing. The smell of baking bread! It began with the no-knead bread recipe in Cooks…
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