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yrmencynIt's everyone's favorite kind of post -- a GOODTHINGS BADTHINGS POST!!!
GoodThing: Beechwold Hardware is made of magic, and carries a full range of metric-sized shelf supports, including metal ones! (Most big-box flat-pack bookcases take 5mm pegs; most big-box hardware stores only carry plastic 5mm pegs, which in my experience shear off and dump a shelf-full of books on the floor.) This means that I've now got most of my books unpacked, yay!
BadThing: I left my multitool sitting, open, in the middle of the floor. I then proceeded to kick it and bury the point a quarter-inch in the ball of the foot (before sending it skittering across the floor).
GoodThing: I finally got around to making chicken stock, which I've been meaning to do. Six quarts of homemade chicken stock, huzzah!
BadThing: I couldn't find my roasting pan to save my soul. Matter of fact, I couldn't find any of my baking dishes. This is a problem, since I tend to stack bags of stock in the roasting pan to freeze flat and contained.
GoodThing: This led me to finally conduct a really, really, really thorough search, since that brought the tally of missing items to not only the baking dishes, but also the loaf pans and the sheet pans. I discovered that what had seemed to be a box full of useless crap was actually a box of useful baking dishes covered with a layer of useless crap. Aha.
BadThing: Cherry tomatoes, languishing in a plastic sack on the countertop, had begun to explode and putrefy.
GoodThing: Still enough good ones left to make a three-quarter sheet pan full of oven-dried tomatoes (think sun-drieds, but not, you know, sun-dried).
BadThing: I ran out of motivation to make a Better-Than-French Onion Dip idea I have running around in my head.
GoodThing: I did manage to bake some bread today. And there's always tomorrow!
Also I watched Jurassic Park today and it was lovely. Clever girl.
GoodThing: Beechwold Hardware is made of magic, and carries a full range of metric-sized shelf supports, including metal ones! (Most big-box flat-pack bookcases take 5mm pegs; most big-box hardware stores only carry plastic 5mm pegs, which in my experience shear off and dump a shelf-full of books on the floor.) This means that I've now got most of my books unpacked, yay!
BadThing: I left my multitool sitting, open, in the middle of the floor. I then proceeded to kick it and bury the point a quarter-inch in the ball of the foot (before sending it skittering across the floor).
GoodThing: I finally got around to making chicken stock, which I've been meaning to do. Six quarts of homemade chicken stock, huzzah!
BadThing: I couldn't find my roasting pan to save my soul. Matter of fact, I couldn't find any of my baking dishes. This is a problem, since I tend to stack bags of stock in the roasting pan to freeze flat and contained.
GoodThing: This led me to finally conduct a really, really, really thorough search, since that brought the tally of missing items to not only the baking dishes, but also the loaf pans and the sheet pans. I discovered that what had seemed to be a box full of useless crap was actually a box of useful baking dishes covered with a layer of useless crap. Aha.
BadThing: Cherry tomatoes, languishing in a plastic sack on the countertop, had begun to explode and putrefy.
GoodThing: Still enough good ones left to make a three-quarter sheet pan full of oven-dried tomatoes (think sun-drieds, but not, you know, sun-dried).
BadThing: I ran out of motivation to make a Better-Than-French Onion Dip idea I have running around in my head.
GoodThing: I did manage to bake some bread today. And there's always tomorrow!
Also I watched Jurassic Park today and it was lovely. Clever girl.
