animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

the outside man

This was a book I think I read before from a novelist I used to really like (Richard North Patterson). For whatever reason, I could not get into this book. Maybe it’s because it was about a bunch of rich old white men from the south. It’s difficult to drum …

wordscapes

I played this game for years (and years) and finally finished it over the weekend. Technically speaking, you can play the game forever, but they recycle old games beyond the first 6000, so I decided to quit once I got to that point. For that matter, it feels like they’ve …

the gray man

This was an ok action flick. There was plenty of action, but it dragged on forever. I started getting bored at the end. It had one funny unintentional joke–the one character referred to Ryan Gosling’s character as a “Ken doll”. This is funny because Gosling played Ken in Barbie, but …

birthday

Yesterday was my birthday, so I was off work (we do birthdays off as a perk). My parents took me out for lunch to Forno Alto in Altoona. I got a sandwich, which was tasty, but they had an impressive-looking pizza oven there, so I will definitely try their pizza …

inka kitchen

I used to have pen pals when I was a teenager. It’s like having friends online (but before the internet). Anyway, I’ve only kept in touch with one in particular, Laura. We met two other times, but it has been a while. Around Christmas, Laura suggested that we get together …