Jul. 8th, 2026 12:00 am
Jul. 4th, 2026 12:32 pm
Chickpea crumble
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chhotii1/4 cup water
1/4 cup chickpea flour (more if from Indian grocer, as that seems to be sifted more than Bob's)
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/8 teaspoon salt or 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1 tablespoon olive oil
(Optional: 1 tablespoon almond flour)
Mix in a jar until well-mixed. Close jar and set aside until yeast has done its thing and it's quite bubbly (20 minutes or so on the counter in hot weather; several hours in fridge).
When ready to cook, remove lid and microwave 1 minute.
Empty jar into pan with a little oil and cook for a minute or so, crumbling the chickpea cake and mixing into other stuff.
1/4 cup chickpea flour (more if from Indian grocer, as that seems to be sifted more than Bob's)
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/8 teaspoon salt or 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1 tablespoon olive oil
(Optional: 1 tablespoon almond flour)
Mix in a jar until well-mixed. Close jar and set aside until yeast has done its thing and it's quite bubbly (20 minutes or so on the counter in hot weather; several hours in fridge).
When ready to cook, remove lid and microwave 1 minute.
Empty jar into pan with a little oil and cook for a minute or so, crumbling the chickpea cake and mixing into other stuff.
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Jul. 4th, 2026 12:39 am
Heat Wave
wotwThe air conditioning unit that cools my great room died a few days ago, and it's been very very hot in there ever since. The HVAC people say they can't come till late next week. Fortunately, the three other units that cool the rest of my living space have been working great.
Today I was out walking and I passed by that dead condenser unit, which gave me the idea to take a look at it and see whether there was a tripped breaker in there. I started trying (and failing) to open the unit up when I noticed the "Danger: High Voltage" sign and decided I should probably go trip off the breaker in the house before trying to tinker with the unit.
You might see where this is going. The breaker in the house was already tripped off. Somehow that possibility had never occured to me. I turned it back on a couple of hours ago and my great room is icy cold, just the way I like it.
Today I was out walking and I passed by that dead condenser unit, which gave me the idea to take a look at it and see whether there was a tripped breaker in there. I started trying (and failing) to open the unit up when I noticed the "Danger: High Voltage" sign and decided I should probably go trip off the breaker in the house before trying to tinker with the unit.
You might see where this is going. The breaker in the house was already tripped off. Somehow that possibility had never occured to me. I turned it back on a couple of hours ago and my great room is icy cold, just the way I like it.
Jul. 3rd, 2026 04:38 pm
NESFA Open with AC
lb_lee posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
davis_squareHey Boston folks! Copy-pasting from Reddit:
The Air Conditioned NESFA [New England Science Fiction Association] Clubhouse (504 Medford St, Somerville) IS open today Friday July 3 from 12 noon to 9/10 pm. Feel free to stop by and read a book, grab a snack or cold one (water and soft drinks), or just hang out. You don’t need to be a member.
It will also be open:
*Saturday 4 July from 12 noon to 6 pm for Library or just hanging out & 6 pm on for Video Night
*Sunday 5 July from 12 noon to 9/10 pm for Gaming, Library, or just hanging out
Again, you don’t need to be a member.
Stay cool, hot neighbors!
The Air Conditioned NESFA [New England Science Fiction Association] Clubhouse (504 Medford St, Somerville) IS open today Friday July 3 from 12 noon to 9/10 pm. Feel free to stop by and read a book, grab a snack or cold one (water and soft drinks), or just hang out. You don’t need to be a member.
It will also be open:
*Saturday 4 July from 12 noon to 6 pm for Library or just hanging out & 6 pm on for Video Night
*Sunday 5 July from 12 noon to 9/10 pm for Gaming, Library, or just hanging out
Again, you don’t need to be a member.
Stay cool, hot neighbors!
Jul. 2nd, 2026 12:45 pm
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vvalkyriMom died 12 years ago today.
I forgot to look up her yard site. I probably missed it. My day is already fairly committed. I'm committed to being in a frog suit at the black cat call time 6:45
I doubt I'll be able to dial into a minion at a time that works.
Then again, I guess I probably could dial into Friday evening services tomorrow.
Nadine of Amphipha fame teaching art as protest three today flare, which is just North of National Gallery East wing.
Tomorrow, there will be a frog announcement of an upcoming press conference in which there will be an amicus brief submitted relating to frogs and ecology and the duck pond actually not duck pond reflecting pool.
At 10:00 not 1:00 meeting I can get out to far Virginia easier on Friday as well as it will hopefully be slightly less hot especially in essentially a mobile tent in the Sun
Last night after a late dinner we four adults we're still talking in the hotel lobby and the child was half asleep on the couch. A lady came up to us asking for hugs. Interestingly, one of the guys had noticed her because of the Mickey mouse t-shirt; I had noticed she had barbell piercings under the Mickey mouse t-shirt. But we each gave her hugs and I asked are you okay what's going on she said she didn't want to start crying but she said we lifted her heart and she left.
I forgot to look up her yard site. I probably missed it. My day is already fairly committed. I'm committed to being in a frog suit at the black cat call time 6:45
I doubt I'll be able to dial into a minion at a time that works.
Then again, I guess I probably could dial into Friday evening services tomorrow.
Nadine of Amphipha fame teaching art as protest three today flare, which is just North of National Gallery East wing.
Tomorrow, there will be a frog announcement of an upcoming press conference in which there will be an amicus brief submitted relating to frogs and ecology and the duck pond actually not duck pond reflecting pool.
At 10:00 not 1:00 meeting I can get out to far Virginia easier on Friday as well as it will hopefully be slightly less hot especially in essentially a mobile tent in the Sun
Last night after a late dinner we four adults we're still talking in the hotel lobby and the child was half asleep on the couch. A lady came up to us asking for hugs. Interestingly, one of the guys had noticed her because of the Mickey mouse t-shirt; I had noticed she had barbell piercings under the Mickey mouse t-shirt. But we each gave her hugs and I asked are you okay what's going on she said she didn't want to start crying but she said we lifted her heart and she left.
Jun. 28th, 2026 08:23 pm
Drive by
vvalkyriI just want to mark that
1) Don Stallone's Memorial yesterday was really amazing. And hopefully I will have time to write more about that later.
2) I am mostly out of the boot but I did not go to Acro today because many reasons.
3) I am still losing to a mouse but I found another placement. Have before that I dealt with. Across the street neighbor had initially offered to bring cats over, but then apparently not. There's still in the middle of moving to Laurel at some point. And I'm sad not to have an across the street neighbor I'm friends with at that point.
3) I'm going mildly crazy trying to figure out how I'm working the end of the week. I had originally had plans in for Virginia, a friend's farm and another friend's Farm actually, but now I'm looking at maybe trying to get back to see the fiasco of fireworks given that they are even closing off a good deal of the river for more barges. But I doubt I can actually get home at that point even though they're not starting the fireworks until at least 10:30.
4) I've been doing a lot of emergency apartment reorganization what with maintenance coming in tomorrow, and I managed to leave my dome light on Tuesday when I parked on the street so a friend could use my spot on Wednesday and I still haven't gotten the car going again. Because.
5) which did mean I was on a bike to try and look at the flyover at 6:30 on Thursday in time to see the Royal Air Force (10 of them) go directly over my head right outside Audi field where I was about to get back on the bike to try and get closer to nats Park and then turn on their smoke and then swirl around and I guess that's when they went over to nats Park to do their real flyover from behind the school board. Which means I had an unique perspective of them filling my vision... And I had not been clever enough to already have the camera open on the phone and failed to get it out in time. Incredibly pissed about this aside from everything else about how I detest this phone so much I need to do something about it
6) the watch and the phone keep losing connection to each other which is incredibly inconvenient, but I don't know if it's the watch or the phone or both so I'm sort of thinking of just getting like a $40 smartwatch which I did not know existed but then what do I do with the sort of working otherwise
7) Nadine is amazing. Otherwise known as Amphifa. Washington Post had a profile on team algae who have been hanging out at the reflecting pond, pool for a while. There was a memorial mass today morning the now absent algae.
There's all sorts of shows that the black cat starting tonight and going through all week. Today was go-go. There's a WrestleMania on Thursday that'll probably involve one belt that involves frogs and the reflecting pool. And there's a whole lot of Civic engagement and lobbying and training and everything else all week during 7 Days in dc. Here's the schedule link: 7DaysInDC.com
1) Don Stallone's Memorial yesterday was really amazing. And hopefully I will have time to write more about that later.
2) I am mostly out of the boot but I did not go to Acro today because many reasons.
3) I am still losing to a mouse but I found another placement. Have before that I dealt with. Across the street neighbor had initially offered to bring cats over, but then apparently not. There's still in the middle of moving to Laurel at some point. And I'm sad not to have an across the street neighbor I'm friends with at that point.
3) I'm going mildly crazy trying to figure out how I'm working the end of the week. I had originally had plans in for Virginia, a friend's farm and another friend's Farm actually, but now I'm looking at maybe trying to get back to see the fiasco of fireworks given that they are even closing off a good deal of the river for more barges. But I doubt I can actually get home at that point even though they're not starting the fireworks until at least 10:30.
4) I've been doing a lot of emergency apartment reorganization what with maintenance coming in tomorrow, and I managed to leave my dome light on Tuesday when I parked on the street so a friend could use my spot on Wednesday and I still haven't gotten the car going again. Because.
5) which did mean I was on a bike to try and look at the flyover at 6:30 on Thursday in time to see the Royal Air Force (10 of them) go directly over my head right outside Audi field where I was about to get back on the bike to try and get closer to nats Park and then turn on their smoke and then swirl around and I guess that's when they went over to nats Park to do their real flyover from behind the school board. Which means I had an unique perspective of them filling my vision... And I had not been clever enough to already have the camera open on the phone and failed to get it out in time. Incredibly pissed about this aside from everything else about how I detest this phone so much I need to do something about it
6) the watch and the phone keep losing connection to each other which is incredibly inconvenient, but I don't know if it's the watch or the phone or both so I'm sort of thinking of just getting like a $40 smartwatch which I did not know existed but then what do I do with the sort of working otherwise
7) Nadine is amazing. Otherwise known as Amphifa. Washington Post had a profile on team algae who have been hanging out at the reflecting pond, pool for a while. There was a memorial mass today morning the now absent algae.
There's all sorts of shows that the black cat starting tonight and going through all week. Today was go-go. There's a WrestleMania on Thursday that'll probably involve one belt that involves frogs and the reflecting pool. And there's a whole lot of Civic engagement and lobbying and training and everything else all week during 7 Days in dc. Here's the schedule link: 7DaysInDC.com
Jun. 25th, 2026 10:03 am
Boston visit, June 2026
chanalehYou guys! Last week I got to spend 2 whole days in Boston by myself (I mean with friends, but traveling solo) and it was fabulous. Apologies to the people I didn't get a chance to see, but hopefully there will be more opportunities.
I had really wanted to come to theroozle /sunspiral Beginning-of-Summer party last year and didn't make it out, so by God, this year I made it happen. Scheduling meant that I left early (Saturday evening return flight) in order to get home in time to celebrate Father's Day with the fam. But it was worth busting out the Time Crowbar(TM) to spend a couple hours with the Tribe and remember that that, too, is still my place.*
Even though I'm still highly disoriented by the amount of change that keeps happening since I've been away... overall this trip felt much more like 'dropping in at home" than "haven't been here in ages". I chalk this up to having a majority of self-structured time and some excellent native guides - as well as it being the second trip in a year, with a third on the horizon.
I would be remiss not to mention that this was the exact era of the Tartan Army Invasion, wherein the 2026 FIFA World Cup drew Boston into a whirlwind romance with Scotland that will go down in history (and hopefully mark the beginning of a beautiful friendship). Kilts everywhere! Bagpipes and loud public singing! The Sam Adams Brewery Taproom drained dry!
( food, folks, and fun )
*The things that struck me most about walking around Somerville were:
(a) "Crap, I really do not know my way around here anymore."
(b) How life-affirming it felt to walk around in the beautiful weather and happy queer poly nerdy weirdo intellectual commie pinko joyful environment. Glancing at all the passing faces going "do I know you? No, you just look like someone I ought to know." Just the snippets of conversation that I caught as I passed were enough to make me wildly happy. People going about their lives.
(c) Even as I felt parts of my soul coming awake again with the above, it brought up another old feeling too: that when I did live in that world, another part of my soul was always desperately craving the things that I have now. A house, a partner, a child. I was never altogether complete there without them. So it's nice to visit home and then come back to my home too.
I'll be back with Ms. A in October for Simchat Torah on Tremont St. and related fall adventures withablock and crew!
I had really wanted to come to the
roozle /sunspiral Beginning-of-Summer party last year and didn't make it out, so by God, this year I made it happen. Scheduling meant that I left early (Saturday evening return flight) in order to get home in time to celebrate Father's Day with the fam. But it was worth busting out the Time Crowbar(TM) to spend a couple hours with the Tribe and remember that that, too, is still my place.* Even though I'm still highly disoriented by the amount of change that keeps happening since I've been away... overall this trip felt much more like 'dropping in at home" than "haven't been here in ages". I chalk this up to having a majority of self-structured time and some excellent native guides - as well as it being the second trip in a year, with a third on the horizon.
I would be remiss not to mention that this was the exact era of the Tartan Army Invasion, wherein the 2026 FIFA World Cup drew Boston into a whirlwind romance with Scotland that will go down in history (and hopefully mark the beginning of a beautiful friendship). Kilts everywhere! Bagpipes and loud public singing! The Sam Adams Brewery Taproom drained dry!
( food, folks, and fun )
*The things that struck me most about walking around Somerville were:
(a) "Crap, I really do not know my way around here anymore."
(b) How life-affirming it felt to walk around in the beautiful weather and happy queer poly nerdy weirdo intellectual commie pinko joyful environment. Glancing at all the passing faces going "do I know you? No, you just look like someone I ought to know." Just the snippets of conversation that I caught as I passed were enough to make me wildly happy. People going about their lives.
(c) Even as I felt parts of my soul coming awake again with the above, it brought up another old feeling too: that when I did live in that world, another part of my soul was always desperately craving the things that I have now. A house, a partner, a child. I was never altogether complete there without them. So it's nice to visit home and then come back to my home too.
I'll be back with Ms. A in October for Simchat Torah on Tremont St. and related fall adventures with
ablock and crew!
Jun. 24th, 2026 11:30 pm
Somerville Discord
jducoeur posting in davis_squareIt looks like nobody's previously mentioned this, so...
There's now a Somerville Discord, for those who like that platform. It's been around for a year or two, and is a pretty bustling place, with almost two thousand members and a bunch of channels, including sections for the various neighborhoods as well as specialized bulletin boards, and channels to discuss all sorts of topics of community interest. Pretty much anything interesting in town is likely to be talked about there.
Not super high volume, but fairly busy -- as so often for Discord, I don't recommend trying to follow every channel there -- and a generally fun and friendly place.
If you'd like to join, here's the official invitation -- come on by!
Jun. 24th, 2026 09:13 pm
we used to have these, once
julianWe have fireflies at our house. Possibly we had them before today, but today, coming home, I saw them first and told Calluna, and we stood watching them for awhile.
Dedham (where I grew up) no longer haa them, at least in my parents' area.
There's a reason we live here.
Dedham (where I grew up) no longer haa them, at least in my parents' area.
There's a reason we live here.