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unicornduke replied to your post “I made yogurt this weekend. I had a bunch of milk left that I didn’t…”

that sounds like a good idea! I’m lazy so I just make it in a pot and then wrap it in a towel lol. but that’s because I only let it do it’s thing for six hours or so.

I only let mine go for six hours too, or maybe not even. The directions I was following said it had to stay at 120F and that’s hotter than I figured a pot would stay. 

Does yours turn out ok at a lower temperature? I was just thinking I might try the hot water in a cooler thing to rise bread, because I can’t even get bread to rise properly in my cold-ass house. 
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marthawells: Artificial Condition, the second novella in The...

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marthawells:

Artificial Condition, the second novella in The Murderbot Diaries series, will be out in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook on Tuesday May 8.

The audiobook is narrated by Kevin R. Free (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2299232/) who also did the All Systems Red.

Cover art by Jaime Jones

You can find buying info and an excerpt on my web site here: http://www.marthawells.com/murderbot2.htm

I’ll be doing a signing at Murder by the Book in Houston, Texas, on Saturday May 12 at 4:30. If you can be there and would like a signed hardcover you can order it online here: https://www.murderbooks.com/event/martha-wells But hurry, because you have to order it before the signing.

oh my gosh it’s may. that’s soon. that’s next week. when i preordered it “May” seemed like “never” so I had forgotten, but– oh my gosh. I’m going to go make sure I really did preorder it. And charge up my Kindle so I’ll be Ready!
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Mm just left an incoherent phone message for work because I forgot the phone number of the place...

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Mm just left an incoherent phone message for work because I forgot the phone number of the place I’ve worked since 2007, how y'all doing?
Telephones should be abolished, they’re the worst.
I bungled the number and literally pulled the phone away from my face to look for the “cancel” button until I realized no, this shit is live, I’m on the hook to salvage this. So I just said “well I’ve forgotten the number, I’ll leave the rest of the message and come back to it I guess”.
Christ my brain is hot garbage.
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mm mm my queue is running dry and i’m

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mm mm my queue is running dry and i’m Uninspired. 

Farm next week, which means I got to get my shit together this week. Yurt is supposed to go up at some point this coming week, because I need it to be up by the week of the 22nd, because that’s an insane week: first chicken slaughter is on the 22nd, my coworker is on vacation until the 21st so I’m going to have to drive out late at night, B-I-L’s dad is visiting that week and will be occupying the guest room so I’ll have nowhere to stay on the farm if I don’t have the yurt up, AND, drumroll please, that Thursday I’m going up to Montreal with my bestie and her husband and kids for the weekend. Everything happens so much. Which adds the complication: Dude is going to come out with me to the farm, #1 to help driving since it’ll be a late night followed by an early morning, and #2 because otherwise he’d have to drive out separately or take a train or something complicated just two days later and that seems dumb, and #3 because my nefarious plan to have him come work remote from the farm worked out beautifully during the winter and he had a good time, ha ha ha ha haaa. So. 

But that means not only do I need to get the yurt set up this week, I also need to get it set up to the standard of having a second person sleep in it. Which isn’t any real additional problem, it just means that I can’t leave piles of junk in it. Which I already can’t! It’s a terrible idea to let anything non-waterproof touch the floor in there, or touch the walls. So I need to get the furniture set up and hung up and all of it.

I’m going to put it up with the autumn insulation in it and see if that doesn’t make it more comfortable year-round. It might well!

So we’ll see. But there’s a lot to do next week, and I’m getting stressed about getting myself ready this week. I’m trying to make lists of things to pack. *Most of* the yurt stuff is stored in the granary attic, but some of it migrated back to my house, and it just figures I’ll have thrown something crucial into my car and forgotten about it and I’ll be setting up and be like “ok where’s the important doohickey” and it’s in my fucking linen closet in Buffalo or something. So.

Really I should have gone through the stuff in the granary attic last time I was at the farm but there wasn’t time and also it doesn’t make a ton of sense to do that with everything in situ. I can’t take a proper inventory unless I remove it.

So I’ll just have to have faith that everything actually crucial is already there, and if there’s something important in Buffalo I’ll be able to just bring it out when I go next time. 
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randomartdudette replied to your post “Mm just

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Okay, but this is the most relatable thing I have seen on this platform.

WHY ARE PHONES ALLOWED

THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED
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