A quote

I guess 29 May was JFK's birthday, and this was the Though for Today sent from Wordsmith.org">A.Word.A.Day at wordsmith.org:

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (29 May 1917-1963)

(Completely separate, the word was heterography, which I shall claim the next time I misspell something.)

I vacillate between thinking that our government is underestimating the capacity of the American people to understand and act, thinking that this government is incapable of forming three coherent thoughts in a row with which to present said American people, and thinking about the 40% of Americans who believe that Bill Gates is going to inject nanobots into us under the guise of vaccinating us from the "Wuhan flu". So, eh. It's all over the place.

Happy Monday! Happy June! June. WTF? JUNE?!

Bzzzzziiing

One of the dudes out of the boathouse Perry rows out of has started his summer program as of this morning.

Perry found out yesterday afternoon.

He's home, and was at the boathouse this morning at 5:30 am. Needless to say, that's all it took for him to decide that living at home wasn't so bad after all.

However, at this point, he isn't working at the boathouse, so this is all pay-pay-pay. We're covering most of this, in exchange for either yard work or money (from what he earned last year). We told him we'd rather the yard work!

And I'm trying to come up with a chores list for the summer/maybe next fall that doesn't lead us all to become frustrated with each other. I told Linnea that she and Perry needed to come up with a schedule to make sure their bathroom gets cleaned and she insists that she was to clean it 100% of the time, but I told her that if she decided that Perry wasn't allowed to help, she wasn't allowed to complain that he didn't (that was the problem last summer).

We'll see.

I'm also going to have them make dinner once a week each. Linnea has already decided that she was going to to mac and cheese every week on her day, I think she's hoping that we'll get bored of her choice and let her off the hook. I offered to buy a Costco size bundle of mac and cheese.

Perry is making risotto this week. I asked what veggie he wanted to make with it. Veggie? he asked. OK. Well.

Menus 1Jun-7Jun

New formula: Perry one meal, Linnea one meal, one out, me the rest (well, me and dh!)

Monday: Roasted potatoes, carrots, onions with


Tuesday: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, made by Linnea. OMG. Usually this is camping food exclusively.


Wednesday: Chicken shawarma with homemade naan, yogurt sauce, salad. (*)


Thursday: Risotto, made by Perry.


Friday: Out ?


Saturday: char siu, rice, gai lan or baby bok choi. Using up meat from freezer.


Sunday: Chicken kabobs, pitas, tahini sauce.



(*) Trader Joe's was out of chicken shawarma last week when I went, so I pushed that menu item back.