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rysmiel, some reading, and eating a lot of fish. The weather has been surprisingly pleasant (meaning highs in the low single digits (C)), and my hips and knee are doing pretty well with moderate amounts of walking, but walking to Juliet et Chocolat for lunch today was just strenuous enough that we're staying in for dinner and having smoked salmon again. The only problem with "smoked salmon again" is that the local supply of smoked salmon is finite. I was looking last night at the table containing both Indian smoked salmon and novy, asked rysmiel what they would call the latter ("novy" being a NY dialect shortening of "Nova Scotia smoked salmon"). Rysmiel told me they had no specific terms for either, because until very recently, novy was the only kind of smoked salmon they'd had. Whereas I grew up distinguishing novy from the much saltier lox, though I also didn't taste the Indian smoked salmon until I was an adult.
I've been doing all my hip-related PT stuff, and still icing the left knee, though it is much better than it had been: after several days when it hurt when I woke up, on Tuesday the knee was okay until I walked around my apartment a bit, and then Wednesday [two days ago] I didn't notice any pain until I'd been up for five hours, taken transit to the airport, waited around at the gate, and was actually on the plane. This is vastly reassuring.
Rysmiel and I haven't been talking about politics (at their request, as part of their long-term self-care). My usual approach to reading news these days starts with either universalhub.com for very local Boston stuff or the CBC, and the last three days I haven't looked at any other news websites. I'm getting quite enough between twitter and assorted email lists, including one very wide-ranging discussion list and Penzey's spices.
The latest Penzey's email is mostly about gun violence, Disney, the NRA, and Bill Penzey's hope that good things will come from the #metoo movement. He promised he'd send the originally planned message about an offer for rosemary in a day or two, leaving us for now with "Tomorrow there will be time to sing the praises of Rosemary, and Sunny Paris, and to share the Curry recipes and short stories our customers have passed along. But today, from the long history that is Spices, here’s this quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet: “There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”
rysmiel, some reading, and eating a lot of fish. The weather has been surprisingly pleasant (meaning highs in the low single digits (C)), and my hips and knee are doing pretty well with moderate amounts of walking, but walking to Juliet et Chocolat for lunch today was just strenuous enough that we're staying in for dinner and having smoked salmon again. The only problem with "smoked salmon again" is that the local supply of smoked salmon is finite. I was looking last night at the table containing both Indian smoked salmon and novy, asked rysmiel what they would call the latter ("novy" being a NY dialect shortening of "Nova Scotia smoked salmon"). Rysmiel told me they had no specific terms for either, because until very recently, novy was the only kind of smoked salmon they'd had. Whereas I grew up distinguishing novy from the much saltier lox, though I also didn't taste the Indian smoked salmon until I was an adult. I've been doing all my hip-related PT stuff, and still icing the left knee, though it is much better than it had been: after several days when it hurt when I woke up, on Tuesday the knee was okay until I walked around my apartment a bit, and then Wednesday [two days ago] I didn't notice any pain until I'd been up for five hours, taken transit to the airport, waited around at the gate, and was actually on the plane. This is vastly reassuring.
Rysmiel and I haven't been talking about politics (at their request, as part of their long-term self-care). My usual approach to reading news these days starts with either universalhub.com for very local Boston stuff or the CBC, and the last three days I haven't looked at any other news websites. I'm getting quite enough between twitter and assorted email lists, including one very wide-ranging discussion list and Penzey's spices.
The latest Penzey's email is mostly about gun violence, Disney, the NRA, and Bill Penzey's hope that good things will come from the #metoo movement. He promised he'd send the originally planned message about an offer for rosemary in a day or two, leaving us for now with "Tomorrow there will be time to sing the praises of Rosemary, and Sunny Paris, and to share the Curry recipes and short stories our customers have passed along. But today, from the long history that is Spices, here’s this quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet: “There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”
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Please trade hugs with Rysmiel for me. I owe them a lot.
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