Alison

"Trumpy you can do stupid things!" (Though that's rarely out of context these days.)

But turns out a bottle is like $8 at the grocery store. So looking forward to some properly braised chicken and leeks this weekend!

There's a recipe we make a couple times a year that calls for a tablespoon of sherry. I've always used a sherry substitute because I assumed it was prohibitively expensive, based solely on the fact that they're always drinking sherry on Frasier.

Starting a business consulting service so I can be the one who gets paid to say “you should migrate all your documents [on/off] SharePoint” every three years.

“Enter the force of your swing. I suggest FEATHER TOUCH”

Merry Christmas! Now off to work on my putting.

Thanks to NPR's excerpts from the Vatican's Christmas Mass, I now know what Latin sounds like with a Chicago accent.

Merry Christmas exclusively to the two guys on a ladder hanging lights at the drive through liquor store at 9 pm on Xmas Eve.

This bookstore has disorganized piles, literal cat fights, and one customer loudly demanding information about ham radios. Five stars.

Oh are you in Pittsburgh?

Haha, that lines up with the local lore I’ve learned from r/stlouis.

Window seating in St. Louis provides the perfect opportunity to work on my research into the correlation between parallel parking difficulties and temp tag expiredness.

We go to St. Louis for a week every December. I always have Dan make a list of places he wants to go, including his old favorites and any new finds that have caught his eye. This year he added 50 places, so I'm looking forward to eating seven meals a day.

As always, I am Ben to your Leslie on the subject of Griff.

I’ve seen most people share comically overestimated ages, so I was prepared to be called 300 years old for listening to Vivaldi.

Spotify thinks my listening age is 20 so don’t worry, everyone can ignore their terrible listening ages.

Okay, there is literally nothing about my sensibilities, tastes, or interactions with the world that reflects an age of 20. My only suspicion is that listening to recent recordings of Yuja Wang playing Rachmaninoff or Hillary Hahn playing Bach is being credited as a new release?

Peak St. Louis menu warning.

Bed of Roses is 10000% a power ballad. I think there’s an element of “how much would a 17 year old girl with a super intense crush be deeply moved by this song” is an important element of power balladism.

Also we feel The Beatles predate “true” power ballads - like late 70s would be the earliest you could have a power ballad.

We are listening now to determine! The other one that keeps tripping us up is More Than Words.

But my Lucy Liu bot will always remember me!

Need alt jerseys featuring the northern lights next season!

Hey Mr. Scientician, should the average citizen be worried about getting coronavirus from coronal mass ejections?

Bender replying "not entirely," indicating to the penguin they should continue fishing.

Hopefully

Like I was super confused that water quality was the number one factor in determining where new arrivals chose to live.

I missed the beginning of the Science Friday story about immigration to Chicago and the three minutes before I realized they were talking about carp, not people, were a wild ride.

I was curious which recipes you'd pick! An excellent culinary swath, from "plant-based international flavors" to "when you're craving Hamburger Helper but have a shred of remaining dignity."

Dan rushes out the door, proclaiming the neighbor texted and needs urgent help. What is the one emergency Dan is qualified to deal with on a Sunday night? TELESCOPE ALIGNMENT.

And Daylight Saving is ending, just in time to further mess with your dinner schedule.