Second crop, this time over a honey soy stir fry. It makes it look so much more finished!
I can't take a lot of credit for the rest of the dish. Instant rice, packet sauce and frozen veg. But I have a seven year old and a partner going through a really rough time with #depression and #anxiety. At times like this if it's not a quick and easy meal it's just not happening. At least the greens add a touch of freshness.
Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.
She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning.
Photo: Lynn Conway
I let my microgreens die off towards the end of last year. With everything going on I was hardly cooking and keeping them going felt frivolous and a waste of energy.
I started them going again a little after Christmas. Even with Micaela going into hospital tomorrow, I still want to use this time away from work to try to get some better habits going, including cooking on the evenings I am home.
I also always love having growing things around me - despite my terrible lack of green thumb!
#sheng #puer today, Honeybomb from #CrimsonLotusTea.
The #tbr pile behind has shrunk somewhat from yesterday. I finished book two in #gailcarriger's #SanAndreasShifters series around 2am (hello occasional insomnia) and now have begun book three, The Enforcer Enigma.
I rarely find werewolves interesting, presumably some Twilight related aversion, but I'll read anything Gail writes.
Today I read #TheSumageSolution by #gailcarriger.
A charming read as all her books are. But at first I was concerned that I was going to be a little disappointed. Not because of the quality of the writing, but without the quirky Victorian steampunk setting, I found myself wondering what the point of the story was. Not that any book needs a 'point', of course. So there's probably a better way to phrase what I was thinking, but I'm not sure what.
Then I hit page 273. And I didn't wonder any more.
Perhaps I was really questioning how this book was going to speak to me, personally. And I found it here. In the way he asks the question, in a completely natural manner. In the way she is happy to be a woman 'only with a cock'. It's not about how she is presenting, or what genitalia she was born with, but just what is.
I go forward now to the other books in the series with anticipation. I look forward to seeing how the societal upheaval she introduced into her Victorian past has grown into 'our' time.
(I was also amused by the fact the main character drinks #puer #tea and everyone else thinks it's awful.)
Christmas #books! A biography of the late Queen by Gyles Brandreth from @micaeladawn and a lovely little edition of A Christmas Carol from our seven year old.
A re-read of the Dickens has been done already. Elizabeth is on the backburner at the moment as I've just started #gailcarriger's #SanAndreasShifters series.
My #tbr pile (ordered for stack stability, not priority) continues to grow delightfully. I don't think I'll need to buy any more this month!
Robert McNees