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impromptu family dinner
Friday, August 27 2021
As I mentioned when I bought them, my latest pseudoephedrine purchase was of actual name-brand Sudafed, and it was the time-release kind, as there was none other available at the Red Hook CVS. I'd recreationally taken one such pill and been forced to grind it up with a mortar and pestle. This produced a waxy material that wasn't too water soluable, and adding water to the mortar and quaffing it that way hadn't worked very well. So this time, I put all the powder directly into my mouth and chased it with lots of water. Pseudoephedrine is unpleasantly bitter, and that bitterness tends to linger, particularly when (as happened this morning) there are clumps of it caught in my lower incisors.
My in-the-office schedule is for me to be there on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, but I've been finding ways to work from home on Fridays too. Today I didn't even bother making up an excuse, and nobody cared. I had a relaxing day of adding features and fixing long-standing bugs in the Taxinator. The latest set of features are to store a permanent copy of the import log in the Electron app's file system, which will help with doing post-mortems. (The Taxinator had been logging import issues to a Javascript variable that disappeared when the program was quit.)
At the end of the workday, I mowed the grass for the first time in over a month to make things a little more presentable for our friends Mary and Keith, who would be staying over tomorrow night.
Meanwhile, Gretchen was doing a rare Friday shift at the bookstore, acting as a substitute book seller. I made some pasta thinking there was glurp left over from last week, but Gretchen had already eaten all that glurp. So Gretchen made herself a sandwich with a faux chicken patty, and I had Gretchen's leftover calzone from last night. (It was similar to La Florentina's red cabbage sformato, but not as good.) Just before we were to head upstairs with our food to watch Jeopardy!, Powerful returned for the weekend (something he does to maintain his Kingston-based parole officer, whom Powerful likes). He was carrying a Burger King bag that contained, he said, an Impossible Whopper. So we all sat down at the recently-demoldified dining room table and had family dinner like we would've done a year ago. [REDACTED]
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