National Bundt Day, 2020

Happy National Bundt Day, y'all! 

It's been a few years since I celebrated properly but what better time to bake cake for an outdoor gathering than during a global pandemic? 

But What About the T-Moulding?

In April, 2017, I bought a small condo near my Burbank office. I paid a flooring company to pull up the tattered old carpet and put down engineered bamboo flooring. The flooring guy didn't put the slats into the walk-in closet. "I didn't measure that so I didn't buy enough," he said weakly. 

He was annoying and I just wanted him to finish and go away, so I said okay and then a few weeks later, went to the flooring place and bought more bamboo slats, and put them in my living room. Where they have sat until yesterday.

Finally, yesterday, I hired a friend's handy-guy to come by and pull out the nasty old carpet and install the bamboo.

Only 3.5 years! I'm so efficient. 

So This Happened Just Prior to National Bundt Day

Woo. 

I sure have gotten a lot of mileage out of that photo by Steve Cook. 

Halloween in Burbank

 Burbank does not mess around. 

But What Was the Prize For?

Here's an amusing scan posted by my mother. I'm that little kid with the long skirt and sneakers.

It's A Bird!

 I enjoyed watching this panel at Diversity Con. I edited this story.

Columbus Day Party, Different Century

A friend of mine posted this flyer from...was it 25 years ago? No, wait. 29. 

Of course, we've all barely changed.

Little Marie Never Noticed

Stupid shit you think about when working too late.

Wonder Woman doesn't have satin tights. She doesn't have tights at all. 

Mini-Hippo for Scale

Maybe I should try to make pandemic scallion pancakes. 

(Grew these from store scallion remnants.) 

He's Barely Even Grateful

 When Tracy and I caught, neutered, released Jay Garrick (one of three Flash cats), it was not as dramatic as we expected it to be.