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I leave for Dallas this afternoon and return Christmas night to work 12/26-28. Though it wasn’t a choice so much as the need to hang on to my two hard-won vacation days, I’m looking forward to being in the office during that quiet week between holidays. I expect it will be a ghost town. Unfortunately, [...]

Clare and I watched Little Children yesterday, and now I think more movies should involve (spoiler alert) auto-castration. Actually, that was the least depressing part of the movie. Also narrators. Movies need more narrators.
If we’re all really lucky, I’ll leave this one up top all through Christmas.

Found yourself with half a box of those cutie tangerines left and no more will to eat them? Join the club! But now that I lead a life with an ice cream maker, all overripe fruit is reincarnated as sorbet. Act before they mold. Here’s how:
Juice all your tangerines. For each cup of juice, use [...]

I made these for Clare’s cookie-based Christmas party. They are soft, spicy, and have little nuggets of crystallized ginger for extra awesome.

Ginger Spice Cookies
Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped crystallized ginger
1 cup (packed) dark brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable shortening, [...]

No drug deals or hooded youngsters in red or blue. No, they literally found the curb which the city had kindly tagged for them:

Ever since I moved here, fresh from dealing with wanna-be 8th-grade gangsters carving symbols into the desk, I’ve been kind of amused to live on the block with XIV stamped into the [...]