April 2025
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You know, I can’t really remember if I ever wrote an introduction of any sort. I have a thin blurb on the About part of this blog, and I may have alluded at some point to my profession, but I think I’ve really been just yapping into the void with no preamble. So, hi, I’m…
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Happy tax day to all seven of us who celebrate! My condolences to the rest of America. I’m one of those weirdos who really enjoys doing taxes. I’ve been doing our family’s taxes myself for the last 17 years or so, having started in the slimy grips of TurboTax but graduating more recently to FreeTaxUSA…
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New Recipes Zucchini pasta – We couldn’t find basil for this recipe, and thus it was kind of a bust. Not the worst thing to eat, but nobody particularly loved it. I’m keeping it around for summer, when I’ll be growing both basil and zucchini. Mongolian beef ramen noodles – I have a bad habit…
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I don’t think my cover images are ever particularly subtle, but this one is probably the least subtle yet. We seem to have returned to a tariffs era, for better or for worse (at present, “worse” seems like the more obvious outcome), during a time when we’re still struggling with inflation and weirdly, the price…
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