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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means [staff profile] karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

Cooking

Nov. 26th, 2025 11:49 pm
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Tuesday afternoon, the mail-ordered turkey arrived.

Tuesday night, made cranberry sauce (using the Once And Future Mulled Cranberry Sauce recipe, which we've been using for about 25 years)

Wednesday night, made broccoli slaw (using the new-to-us Mighty Quinn's recipe, slightly modified because neither of us like mayonnaise, and scaled down by a factor of three because it makes over a gallon). Made a cold-water pie crust and filled it with chocolate pecan pie. Made a nut-and-rice-flour pie crust, but too sleepy to fill it with cranberry curd.

Thursday, there's a lot left to do. In no particular order,...


  • watch parades & dog show on TV

  • roast turkey (the same recipe we've been using for about 25 years)

  • sausage stuffing (the recipe [personal profile] shalmestere grew up with fifty-mumble years ago)

  • sweet potato tian (a new recipe to us this year)

  • carrot slaw (a recipe we've been using on and off for ten or twenty years)

  • cranberry curd tart (one of the NY Times's most popular recipes, which we've been doing on and off for maybe ten years)

  • gravy (the way [personal profile] shalmestere learned to make it fifty-mumble years ago)

  • We were thinking of a Latin American "corn pie", but I think that may be postponed to next week.

  • clear the table, lay a festive holiday tablecloth, set the table

  • eat

  • wash lots of dishes

  • call relatives

A holiday math puzzle

Nov. 26th, 2025 09:50 pm
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Well, OK, it's not particularly holiday-themed, but it came up two days before Thanksgiving, so...

Suppose (hypothetically) you were decommissioning a somewhat ragged queen-sized foam mattress topper, and it occurred to you that rather than throwing it all away, you could cut some pads out of it for your circular dog beds. You might spread it out on the kitchen floor (the largest unobstructed area of floor in the house), then put a dog bed on top of it to trace the right size and shape. Unfortunately, it's obvious that you won't get two circles the size of this dog bed from one mattress topper. So how much smaller do they need to be?

Give it a try yourself before reading my various wrong approaches )

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