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Dec

2022

02

2022 / Dec / 02
25 Days of Drinkmas 2022
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- / tags: booze, drinkmas, holidays
We started observing the 25 Days of Drinkmas in 2020, a year that called for a booze advent calendar if ever a year called for a booze advent calendar.

We repeated the event in 2021, another year that absolutely warranted nightly cocktails for 3+ weeks straight, but it was cut short by some unexpected holiday travel.

And here we are in 2022. I’m trying to keep this light and fun, but this season started challenging me at about 10:00 a.m. on December 1st and shows no signs of letting up. But at least there will be fancy cocktails.

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Nov

2022

16

2022 / Nov / 16
The Rusty Nail Bundt
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This was my 12th time observing National Bundt Cake Day by creating an original recipe cake. I woke up in the wee small hours of the morning of November 11 realizing I had no idea what I was going to bake, and almost immediately thereafter knowing this was the cake.

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Oct

2022

12

2022 / Oct / 12
The Ghost Egg Scared Of Its Own Tits Cake
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- / tags: baking, dessert, Halloween
Years ago, a friend posted this image on Facebook

and I laughed hysterically for about 7 hours.

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Jul

2022

18

2022 / Jul / 18
The Saga of Gabby Reece’s Mom’s Harp
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- / tags: gabby reece, harp, photography
Quit job, sold house, drove
Looking for America
Finding mostly bars
-Jerry Seeger

The above haiku was written shortly after Gabby Reece’s Mom’s Harp went into a storage pod in San Diego in 2004, where it languished as the author did exactly what he described in that 17-syllable masterpiece, before he moved to Prague and left Gabby Reece’s Mom’s Harp even further in his rearview.

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Jun

2022

30

2022 / Jun / 30
In It To End It
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In 2021, I participated for the first time in an event called In It To End It. It’s a fitness-based awareness & fundraiser for the Bay Against Abuse Coalition.

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Dec

2021

02

2021 / Dec / 02
Adventures in Lockdown: 25 Days of Drinkmas 2021
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- / tags: alcohol, holidays, lockdown
When we completed our 25 Days of Drinkmas in 2020, we had every intention of doing it again in 2021. What we didn’t realize was that it would still be categorized as an Adventure in Lockdown.

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Nov

2021

14

2021 / Nov / 14
The 10th Anniversary Sourdough Molasses Bundt
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This year marked my 10th anniversary of observing National Bundt Day by baking an original recipe Bundt cake. And I almost missed it.

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Sep

2021

10

2021 / Sep / 10
Dear Amazon: No
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Amazon recently announced they will now be paying tuition for all hourly U.S. employees. People are talking about what a wonderful thing this is. And I get it. After the year we’ve had, a big wonderful thing would be big and wonderful. But here I am in Kassandra Korner hoping I’m not the only one who sees this for the unmitigated bullshittery it is.

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Sep

2021

04

2021 / Sep / 04
Not One More Vet
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CW: Suicide

Back in July, I participated in a fitness-based fundraiser for a local women’s shelter. (Thank you again to everyone who made that the success it was, you are awesome.) Toward the end of that event, I saw a post about a similar fundraiser coming up for another organization I support.

If I’m going to be working out anyway, other people can benefit from it as much as I do.

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Jul

2021

26

2021 / Jul / 26
Nifty Prizes!
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If you’re on the mailing list, or following me on any of Ye Olde Socials, you know by now that I’m on Team Next Door Solutions participating in the In It To End It fitness fundraiser benefitting the Bay Against Abuse coalition.

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Jun

2021

26

2021 / Jun / 26
An Open Letter to Instagram
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- / tags: instagram, tech support
You don’t know me, and chances are slim anyone working at Instagram will actually read this. But I’ll write it anyway, on the off chance that someone does read it, and that someone might actually be willing to help someone else avoid what I had to deal with.

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Dec

2020

02

2020 / Dec / 02
Adventures in Lockdown: 25 Days of Drinkmas 2020
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- / tags: alcohol, holidays, lockdown
2020 called for a very special tree.

O Tannenbooze

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