Three things for Sunday
6 Mar 2022 17:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhiker1. Perry and Linnea were here this weekend, always a pleasure. It was dh's bday on Friday and we had his mom and sister over for dinner last night, which was exhausting. Made a gigantic cake... I somehow didn't expect it to be so freaking GIGANTIC. It was great. Anne-Chloe came over on Wednesday night to celebrate, she was up in Canada this weekend just chilling by herself. She's running pretty ragged right now.
2. Trying to figure out my MIL's living situation. The dump she lives at is raising rents to LOL, no levels, and the only options she's open to are a) staying there, with us picking up the extra $500 rent, b) moving into a trailer park into a "mobile home" that we'd have purchased on land owned by the mobile home park owner (*) or c) moving in with us. No on c). Not happening. OTOH, my SIL offered to have her move in with them, but MIL doesn't want to. She also doesn't want to move in with her sister. The trailer park is a non starter. The mobile homes at this point are usually old and stupid expensive, there are HOAs to pay, and there have been WAAAAY too many trailer park places that have sold the land with a 'shrug, oh well, move your homes if they still move'. At this point, with the home values around here being what they are, buying her something would be stupid. Our other suggestion was that she could move to a different place, and we'd cover the $500 extra that it would cost to get her into a better place, but then she'd lose any aid she gets from the state, and we'd have to fully support her. We don't want -that was the line in the sand dh drew-, to pay the extra for the place she's currently at. She's been there for 14 years, and the place has needed a lot of work in the time she's been in there, and they've never done it, dh has done more than they have so, eh, not really willing to throw more $$ at slumlords. I wish she'd listened to all the stuff we'd talked about 15 years ago (like getting herself on some of the lists for lower income apartments, she never bothered). Anyhow. MAJOR headache. I'll credit my SIL for being willing to live with her, but there are benefits for her too. Ah well.
3. Perry's team had a scrimmage with SU yesterday in Bellingham, alas we couldn't be in both places at once. This is the lightweight four. I think there were two novices in the lineup, though mostly the novices were in 8s, the varsity guys in two fours with some novices. Because of the pandemic, I don't think they can quite field a full varsity 8.
What was funny: they did 5 x 1k races, rate capped. The reality of rate capping is that lightweight crews, being smaller and lighter, can sustain higher rates. The first two races, rate capped at I think 30 and 32, SU and the other WWU boat beat the lightweight boat. The next one, rate capped at 34? (*) the lightweight boat beat the other WWU boat and were bow to stern with the SU boat. Second to late race, higher again rate cap, they were at SU's two-seat, so really close. Late race was no rate cap as fast as you can go? Perry was stroke and he kept them at something like 46 to start, 44 for a bit, and they beat SU by a boat length and a half, about the same gap as they'd gotten beaten with the lower rates. LOL. I think that's aways so funny, these lightweight boats rowing like mad, like a speedy quick runner with short legs. (*) I don't quite remember the actual rates of the first four races.
2. Trying to figure out my MIL's living situation. The dump she lives at is raising rents to LOL, no levels, and the only options she's open to are a) staying there, with us picking up the extra $500 rent, b) moving into a trailer park into a "mobile home" that we'd have purchased on land owned by the mobile home park owner (*) or c) moving in with us. No on c). Not happening. OTOH, my SIL offered to have her move in with them, but MIL doesn't want to. She also doesn't want to move in with her sister. The trailer park is a non starter. The mobile homes at this point are usually old and stupid expensive, there are HOAs to pay, and there have been WAAAAY too many trailer park places that have sold the land with a 'shrug, oh well, move your homes if they still move'. At this point, with the home values around here being what they are, buying her something would be stupid. Our other suggestion was that she could move to a different place, and we'd cover the $500 extra that it would cost to get her into a better place, but then she'd lose any aid she gets from the state, and we'd have to fully support her. We don't want -that was the line in the sand dh drew-, to pay the extra for the place she's currently at. She's been there for 14 years, and the place has needed a lot of work in the time she's been in there, and they've never done it, dh has done more than they have so, eh, not really willing to throw more $$ at slumlords. I wish she'd listened to all the stuff we'd talked about 15 years ago (like getting herself on some of the lists for lower income apartments, she never bothered). Anyhow. MAJOR headache. I'll credit my SIL for being willing to live with her, but there are benefits for her too. Ah well.
3. Perry's team had a scrimmage with SU yesterday in Bellingham, alas we couldn't be in both places at once. This is the lightweight four. I think there were two novices in the lineup, though mostly the novices were in 8s, the varsity guys in two fours with some novices. Because of the pandemic, I don't think they can quite field a full varsity 8.
What was funny: they did 5 x 1k races, rate capped. The reality of rate capping is that lightweight crews, being smaller and lighter, can sustain higher rates. The first two races, rate capped at I think 30 and 32, SU and the other WWU boat beat the lightweight boat. The next one, rate capped at 34? (*) the lightweight boat beat the other WWU boat and were bow to stern with the SU boat. Second to late race, higher again rate cap, they were at SU's two-seat, so really close. Late race was no rate cap as fast as you can go? Perry was stroke and he kept them at something like 46 to start, 44 for a bit, and they beat SU by a boat length and a half, about the same gap as they'd gotten beaten with the lower rates. LOL. I think that's aways so funny, these lightweight boats rowing like mad, like a speedy quick runner with short legs. (*) I don't quite remember the actual rates of the first four races.
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Date: 8 Mar 2022 05:27 (UTC)It's a Guinness chocolate cake with whisky ganache, and Bailey's buttercream frosting. I've made it before from Smitten Kitchen as cupcakes, and modded this recipe to add ganache layers. I wanted to use the recipe I'd used before from Smitten Kitchen, but it's not there any longer, and I couldn't lay my hands on my paper copy, or I might have noticed that that was a lot of flour and would be two full layers rather than smaller one.
The housing drama continues. MIL is stubbornly refusing any situation presented to her. To give an idea of how ridiculous property values are: Prosperity bomb 2.0? Bellevue passes Manhattan in housing prices. We're not in Bellevue, but the whole area has followed suit. I suspect AA is in a similar stupid-real-estate state? Part of this could have been avoided if anyone had listened to me over the past decade and a half, but my MIL has refused to get on any lists for subsidized housing for which she qualified saying "it takes too long". Right. It takes 5-7 years. She's been in her dump for 14. This is really stressing me out. I expect she's going to stay where she is and it'll be a crisis that we'll have to deal with. Anyhow. Sorry, this turning into a whine.