Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Your plans this weekend, or this week, or this month…

  1. Share a bottle of wine with our neighbors for a distanced covid visit. A double date of sorts.
  2. Getting my first Covid-19 vaccine shot this week.
  3. Cutting back the freeze damage on my orange trees, oleander, bottlebrush (OK, everything)
  4. Eat, sleep, use the toilet, and work from home …(and not necessarily in that order)
  5. Get some sleep!
  6. Install new mini fridge in my office.
  7. Give a Sunday afternoon lecture on Zoom, part of a library program
  8. Picking out paint colors for a major paint-a-thon at the end of the month
  9. Visit the art museum with my family
  10. Have a birthday dinner for our best friend, one of only 4 people to enter our house since the pandemic started
  11. Now that I’ve had that wine (red zin), take aspirin and drink water and hit the rack.
  12. The weekend’s over, but I made an amazing pot of chili.
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Your plans this weekend, or this week, or this month…

  1. Share a bottle of wine with our neighbors for a distanced covid visit. A double date of sorts.
  2. Getting my first Covid-19 vaccine shot this week.
  3. Cutting back the freeze damage on my orange trees, oleander, bottlebrush (OK, everything)
  4. Eat, sleep, use the toilet, and work from home …(and not necessarily in that order)
  5. Get some sleep!
  6. Install new mini fridge in my office.
  7. Give a Sunday afternoon lecture on Zoom, part of a library program
  8. Picking out paint colors for a major paint-a-thon at the end of the month
  9. Visit the art museum with my family
  10. Have a birthday dinner for our best friend, one of only 4 people to enter our house since the pandemic started
  11. Now that I’ve had that wine (red zin), take aspirin and drink water and hit the rack.
  12. The weekend’s over, but I made an amazing pot of chili.
  13. Damn. Monday morning. Back to work.

Pass.

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ON a similar note,

Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.

My wife’s birthday is coming up next week and she wants one. I’ve baked cakes before but carrot will be new for me.

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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders

Now that the ‘unusual’ winter is finally over I’ve only got nine or ten months to get it done :slight_smile:

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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington

Our New Year’s Eve 2020-2021 feast, for carnivores and a vegetarian

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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
  8. Hang some pictures in my new office

I started my current gig just a day before you, Bullitt! I’m having a good time, too.

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Alright!

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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
  8. Hang some pictures in my new office
  9. At work I’m learning how to do builds, code commits and merges, and software deploys. Not in my wheelhouse. All new skills. Everyone (or, most) around me is in their early 20s. And I’ll be 60 in June. At times I feel like a square peg in a round hole. (sigh)
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
  8. Hang some pictures in my new office
  9. At work I’m learning how to do builds, code commits and merges, and software deploys. Not in my wheelhouse. All new skills. Everyone (or, most) around me is in their early 20s. And I’ll be 60 in June. At times I feel like a square peg in a round hole. (sigh)
  10. For St Patrick’s Day, try a new recipe for Irish Cream bundt cake
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
  8. Hang some pictures in my new office
  9. At work I’m learning how to do builds, code commits and merges, and software deploys. Not in my wheelhouse. All new skills. Everyone (or, most) around me is in their early 20s. And I’ll be 60 in June. At times I feel like a square peg in a round hole. (sigh)
  10. For St Patrick’s Day, try a new recipe for Irish Cream bundt cake
  11. I started learning to play the cello on my 70th birthday. On my 75th I started learning Italian.
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
  8. Hang some pictures in my new office
  9. At work I’m learning how to do builds, code commits and merges, and software deploys. Not in my wheelhouse. All new skills. Everyone (or, most) around me is in their early 20s. And I’ll be 60 in June. At times I feel like a square peg in a round hole. (sigh)
  10. For St Patrick’s Day, try a new recipe for Irish Cream bundt cake
  11. I started learning to play the cello on my 70th birthday. On my 75th I started learning Italian.
  12. I’m hoping to try a covid vaccine. And… NO MORE MASKS!!!
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Something new you’re going to try or that you have tried in the last year.

  1. Make a carrot cake.
  2. Try to figure out how to stream from my computer to my TV
  3. Try to find and repair the leak in my waders
  4. Get a new pair of shoes
  5. Make Beef Wellington and Mushroom Wellington
  6. Replace the air filter in my car
  7. New job this year. Started on 04 Jan. This one might be a keeper.
  8. Hang some pictures in my new office
  9. At work I’m learning how to do builds, code commits and merges, and software deploys. Not in my wheelhouse. All new skills. Everyone (or, most) around me is in their early 20s. And I’ll be 60 in June. At times I feel like a square peg in a round hole. (sigh)
  10. For St Patrick’s Day, try a new recipe for Irish Cream bundt cake
  11. I started learning to play the cello on my 70th birthday. On my 75th I started learning Italian.
  12. I’m hoping to try a covid vaccine. And… NO MORE MASKS!!!
  13. I’m trying to learn to read the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets

Congrats to @Elendil_s_Heir and @Bullitt on new gigs!

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Ghosts in legend, fiction, film, song, and, if known, who sees them

  1. Julius Caesar’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Brutus
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Ghosts in legend, fiction, film, song, and, if known, who sees them

  1. Julius Caesar’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Brutus
  2. Banquo’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Macbeth

-“BB”-

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Ghosts in legend, fiction, film, song, and, if known, who sees them

  1. Julius Caesar’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Brutus
  2. Banquo’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Macbeth
  3. Anne Boleyn’s ghost, from the English Music Hall song With 'Er 'Ead Tucked Underneath 'Er Arm performed by Stanley Holloway, appears to various guards and Henry VIII
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Ghosts in legend, fiction, film, song, and, if known, who sees them

  1. Julius Caesar’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Brutus
  2. Banquo’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Macbeth
  3. Anne Boleyn’s ghost, from the English Music Hall song With 'Er 'Ead Tucked Underneath 'Er Arm performed by Stanley Holloway, appears to various guards and Henry VIII
  4. Captain Gregg’s ghost appears to Lucy Muir, in the 1947 film, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
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Ghosts in legend, fiction, film, song, and, if known, who sees them

  1. Julius Caesar’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Brutus
  2. Banquo’s ghost, in Shakespeare, appears to Macbeth
  3. Anne Boleyn’s ghost, from the English Music Hall song With 'Er 'Ead Tucked Underneath 'Er Arm performed by Stanley Holloway, appears to various guards and Henry VIII
  4. Captain Gregg’s ghost appears to Lucy Muir, in the 1947 film, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir .
  5. Nearly Headless Nick, from the “Harry Potter” franchise, seen by everyone.