{"id":498,"date":"2003-03-08T01:37:37","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/498"},"modified":"2003-03-08T01:37:37","modified_gmt":"2003-03-07T20:37:37","slug":"in-which-she-rambles-quite-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/498","title":{"rendered":"In which she rambles quite a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unholy fascination with tea continues.  I bought myself an electric kettle, because you know I:<\/p>\n<p>1) need something else on my counter<br \/>\n2) need yet another gadget, and<br \/>\n3) need something else that does just one damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a regular, on the stove kettle but neither grocery store I went to had one.<\/p>\n<p>Please forgive me for any typos.  The puppy chewed through the last keyboard cable and I&#8217;m on a new keyboard that sucks.  I&#8217;m fixing to order a new one.  I hate mushy keyboards.  I liked the really clackety ones that had the tactile &#8220;click&#8221; when you pressed a key, but the problem was that they were really loud.  Not the thing when you&#8217;re trying to soothe a baby, a puppy, or a husband to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I was not one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/datatheft\/affected.html\">ones<\/a> who had their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/aas\/metro\/030603\/0306uthack.html\">name a social secirity number stolen from UT&#8217;s computer system<\/a> last week, but turns out a friend of mine did.  Wonder what weird things are going to show up on his credit report.<\/p>\n<p>Today was just the prettiest day outside.  About 72 degrees, not a cloud in the sky.  Such a nice change from the unusual cold and ice we had recently.  I cleaned off the table on the screened in porch and set the kids up with some Play-Doh while I sat in a rocking chair and quilted.  I&#8217;ve got my nephew&#8217;s quilt about 2\/3 done, which would normally be good news except I started it six months ago and it needs to be done by the first week in April.  Crystal ball points to many sore fingers in the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the kids will sleep tonight so I can get an early start tomorrow morning and head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westlakefarmersmarket.com\">farmer&#8217;s market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least.  The trick to excellent mashed potatoes is adding more butter than you think humanly possible.  A stick per 2.5 pounds.  Trust me on this, it&#8217;s really worth it.  Cooks Illustrated agrees.<\/p>\n<p>*burp*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unholy fascination with tea continues. I bought myself an electric kettle, because you know I: 1) need something else on my counter 2) need yet another gadget, and 3) need something else that does just one damn thing. I wanted a regular, on the stove kettle but neither grocery store I went to had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}