Well, I just came back from a protest that, uh, actually wasn’t. It is next week. I feel foolish but! Oh well! My bad! I should have read the initial email more carefully. I will be there next week. I am trying to step up my involvement with the protest infrastructure a bit, because I feel like I’m doing the bare minimum – standing on the side of the road holding a sign alongside many mostly older people doing the same thing – and I want to do a bit more. Therefore next Saturday I will be, yes, standing on the side of the road holding a sign but it’s going to be different! A different sign!

I went to the protest on Friday – my participation in the not particularly organized General Strike was sort of also not particularly organized. I took the afternoon off. I went to the protest, which was not well attended, and then I came home and did not buy anything. I made Marcella Hazan’s 3 ingredient tomato sauce which is of course about the best red sauce in the world although it has no right to be so, and I made tofu / eggplant no meatballs from the Horn of the Moon cookbook, my favorite cookbook from the 90s. It has more or less aged well although it does do that 90s thing of tossing eggs and tamari into every recipe because, I guess, protein and hippies.

This was a rough week for no apparent reason. I’m just tired, I guess. My cold came back unexpectedly and made me tired; work was tiring for no real reason – I think it’s just the January blahs. I’m broke, I’m tired, I’m kind of fed up. I want to change my life again but realistically that’s not on the table, so I feel trapped and cantankerous. When you grow up the way I did, moving every year or so, it can start to feel unnatural and confined to stay in one place. It’s the way I play Minecraft – build a house, fix up a village, move on; lather, rinse, repeat. This house, fond of it though I am, is built (although with unlimited funds or frankly even limited, just funds, so much more could be done) and I want to move on. I’m not going to get to move on and it’s making me cranky. So on to the photos of the day! I am not crazy about the way the captions are working but I think that if you click on a photo you can get to a slideshow without them? More experimentation is necessary.

On further inspection, the captions don’t work very well, do they? You have to click through and then click the little i and then you can see the whole caption. Also, WordPress is stretching the horizontal photos in the slide show and I hate that. Next week, hopefully, I will have the energy to change all that. Meanwhile, thanks for reading and see you next week!