food/cooking notes

* Cinnamon toast made with seeded rye bread is at least as good as when made with white bread. I tried this on a whim: the bread was already in the toaster when I remembered I have a jar of cinnamon sugar.

I have a jar of cinnamon sugar because, sometime in the last few years, Penzey's was giving it away free with purchase, and I needed enough other things to qualify. I wouldn't buy cinnamon sugar--you're paying for convenience, because sugar is a lot cheaper than cinnamon--but it's convenient, and I left the shaker lid on because I'm only ever going to sprinkle it on things, not want to measure or use a lot at a time.

* cattitude made potato leek soup for supper tonight, and it was very good. There's enough left for another meal, so that's supper either tomorrow or Wednesday depending on whether we want to cook tomorrow.

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Jo Walton announced this morning that Scintillation, the small con she runs in Montreal, is postponed from this October to next.

I'm disappointed even though I expected this, and even though I doubt they'll be letting ordinary Americans into Canada -- or most other places -- any time soon. Nor should they, even if Massachusetts somehow manages to keep COVID-19 under control when most of the US, including places like California that seemed to be doing a lot better than Massachusetts, aren't.

My appointment book for the next few months contains several medical things, and a haircut that I will probably cancel. (It's two weeks from now, so I don't have to decide yet.) I expect to keep seeing adrian_turtle, but the timing of those visits depends mostly on the weather, and ten-day forecasts aren't much better than climatology.)

While we're dealing with the pandemic, I'm mostly focusing on the next few days, to the extent that fits with keeping the pantry stocked and making sure we don't run out of milk.