Christmas wreath

December 12, 2018 Wednesday
5:03 PM Sassy
Hope you are hanging in.

5:12 PM Phil
I am!

How you doing?!

Meeting an old workmate for a pint and then picking up a Christmas gift.

[photo of a beer sitting on a bar]

5:12 PM Sassy
I’m super deluxe!

Heading out soon…

5:14 PM Phil
Super deluxe?

5:14 PM Sassy
Big smile… life is good.

5:14 PM Phil
That’s a wonderful thing!

5:14 PM Sassy
Indeed!
Mwah!

5:18 PM Phil

back at you sweet girl!

8:12 PM Sassy
Our Christmas wreath!  Thanks to Ricky’s Flower Market in Union Square Somerville, and awesome augmentation by Hubby with lights from The Dollar Store at Twin City Plaza.  🙂

No sticky buns

December 11, 2018 Tuesday

8:49 AM Sassy
Tuesday time! Let’s rock it!

9:15 AM Phil
Woo Hoo! Enjoy the day!

1:22 PM Sassy
Van from a local bakery – door sign says “Notice: Driver does not carry sticky buns!”

7:02 PM Sassy
Quick sushi supper at Genki Ya in Davis Square Somerville

Steamed shrimp shumai
Sashimi and sushi
Soft-shell crab tempura
Steamed gyoza
Fresh roll with shrimp with peanut sauce

Eggs Maryland

December 9, 2018 Sunday

12:20 PM Sassy
Eggs Maryland at S&S Deli in Cambridge!  Think Eggs Benedict minus the ham plus a shrimp and crab cake!

4:27 PM Sassy
Wow! Snow for you! Supposed to get much?

4:29 PM Phil
Who knows? Inch or two maybe. Pretty though

4:29 PM Sassy
Our weekend guests are gone, can finally relax!

4:35 PM Phil
Ahhhhhhhh

My team won, Pats lost, great weekend!

4:36 PM Sassy
Congrats!

4:41 PM Phil
THX!

Dim Sum Brunch

December 8, 2018 Saturday

10:02 AM Sassy
Good morning kid!

11:08 AM Phil
Good morning! Happy Saturday!

12:30 PM Sassy
Dim sum brunch with Mary Chung’s in Central Square Cambridge

 Shumai
 Suan la chow show
 Peking Ravioli
 Egg roll
 Crab Rangoon
 Soup dumplings with ginger soy sauce 
 Upcoming open hours

5:26 PM Sassy
Avgolemono soup on a cold night at Greek Corner in Cambridge



Swedish sapphires

December 7, 2018 Friday

6:55 AM Sassy
Happy Friday kid!

7:13 AM Phil
Happy Friday!

1:09 PM Sassy
Dig this parure! I so adore the Swedish sapphires!

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Queen Silvia of Sweden wears the tiara and jewels from the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, December 2004

http://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2018/12/the-daily-diadem-leuchtenberg-sapphire.html

Guacamole

December 6, 2018 Thursday

8:42 AM Sassy
Good morning Philip! Another sunny cold morning! Wiggle those sexy toes for me!
10:04 AM Phil
Good morning!
8:21 PM Sassy
Marvelous Mexican dinner at Catina la Mexicana in Union Square Somerville
Shrimp ceviche
Guacamole
Gorditas
Veggie fajitas
Chilaquiles with chicken
Shrimp enchiladas with rice, refried beans and pica de gallo 
Tres leches cake
Flan

Sleep sweater

December 5, 2018 Wednesday

6:26 AM
Sassy
Good morning! Made it to Wednesday!
7:24 PM Phil
Happy Wednesday! Hope your day was good. 
Nice to see politicians acting like adults today.

[photo of the fireplace on his balcony]

7:25 PM Sassy
You have the day off to mourn Bush?

7:27 PM Phil
No, I had to work but taped the funeral. I liked the president.

7:27 PM Sassy
Cold down there? We’re at 31. Brrrr….

7:27 PM Phil
GW did a great job today

About the same here, snowed a little

7:28 PM Sassy
I’ve been reading lots of folksy stories about GHWB. The folks in Maine adored him

7:28 PM Phil
My pal and I froze last night

7:28 PM Sassy
Doing what?

7:28 PM Phil
Secret Service telling good Bush stories too

Smoking cigars on the porch

7:29 PM Sassy
Ah. How’s your pal?

7:29 PM Phil
Good as always
We keep each other sane

7:30 PM Sassy
Excellent!

I took an anti-harassment online course today.

7:31 PM Phil
[photo of his pal eating a huge slice of pizza]
Great guy

7:31 PM Sassy
He’s looking sharp!

7:32 PM Phil
dude always looks sharp

7:32 PM Sassy
Heh
Do you have a nickname amongst the dudes?

7:33 PM Phil
Phil, just Phil
7:33 PM Sassy
The folks at work being nice to you?

7:34 PM Phil
Yeah, much different system but I’m learning.
Good people

7:35 PM Sassy
When will they let you do actual work?

7:36 PM Phil
After school. 
Gotta earn my credentials and I am earning them.
School is a booger

Brrrrrrrrrrr

[graphic of the temperature – 30 degrees]

7:40 PM Sassy
Wow! You’re in for a cold spell…. we’re about 10 degrees colder all long. But at least no snow!
7:41 PM Phil
It’s gonna come though
Still early
7:43 PM Sassy
I pulled my favorites off Tumblr last night
Looking for somewhere new
7:44 PM Phil
Let me know when you find it
7:45 PM Sassy
Lots of folks are going to a place called swarmr
7:45 PM Phil
Not sure why sex is such a bad thing
Sassy
Swarmr is committed to letting people post what they want

Yeah… it stumps me. I get nixing child porn but… geesh

I hope it kills Tumblr

There was a funny article today about the posts their algorithm thinks are adult content… like Garfield
or a bowl of fruit

7:47 PM Phil
Me too!
7:48 PM Sassy
I’ll find good stuff to send you. 
  

The way Tumblr worded it also was yucky. They didn’t go after the content, they went after people… “We don’t want you as part of our community.”

7:49 PM Phil
You can just send me pics of you. 
Those are my favorites

Ah well. Screw em

7:51 PM Sassy
Awww… you are so sweet!
7:51 PM Phil
Truth though, love you girl
7:52 PM Sassy
I adore you! And love you lots.
  
7:52 PM Phil
<3

7:52 PM Sassy
Did you see the video of Senator Dole at the Rotunda yesterday saluting?

7:52 PM Phil
Loved it
Very touching. Rivals with great respect
7:53 PM Sassy
He reminded me so much of my dad
Going and doing the right thing, even when it was very difficult.
He looked so frail.
7:54 PM Phil
Yep! Nothing but respect. He’s 95
Loved watching GW slip Michelle a candy. Those two are cute
7:56 PM Sassy
My coworker is reading her book, says it’s excellent
7:57 PM Phil
I’m sure. I like her
8:05 PM Phil
Ahhhh

[photo of his hot tub and his foot sticking out of the water]

8:05 PM Sassy
Toes!

8:39 PM Sassy
My sassy sleep sweater

[photo of me in the bathroom in a black sweater and night shirt]

8:51 PM Phil
My sleep sweater

[photo of him in the bathroom naked]

8:51 PM Sassy
Ha! Gonna smooch those sexy shoulders!

8:51 PM Phil
Mmmm
8:56 PM Sassy
Let’s go to bed early and not sleep
8:58 PM Phil
I like the way you think

On to the bike I go. There are much more fun ways to exercise

9:00 PM Sassy
I bet you’d keep me warmer than the sweater
9:01 PM Phil
Yes ma’am
You know it

Starbucks Kaput and Alaskan Luck

December 4, 2018 Tuesday

5:48 AM Sassy
Good morning! Have a super Tuesday! My internet is back!

8:15 AM Phil
Good morning! Woo Hoo! 
Aced test number two!
Enjoy your day!

11:31 AM Sassy
The Church Street Starbucks in Harvard Square is gone. They’ve already emptied out the store!

11:13 PM Sassy
Story of the guy whose car got stuck on the broken road after the Alaska earthquake… so Alaskan!

That guy driving the earthquake-marooned GMC? Yeah, he made his flight out of Anchorage.


Tom Sulczynski’s GMC sits marooned on an island of pavement after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Anchorage on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. (Photo by Nat Herz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)

https://www.ktoo.org/2018/12/01/that-guy-driving-the-earthquake-marooned-gmc-yeah-he-made-his-flight-out-of-anchorage/

Tumblr idiocy

December 3, 2018 Monday

8:07 AM Sassy
Good morning Philip! Hope your week is off to a grand start!
7:14 PM Sassy
Tumblr is banning porn. Sigh

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th 
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode

7:28 PM Sassy
First time at Genki Ya in Davis Square Somerville

Entrance
Bar
Dining room 
Place setting 
Soft-shell crab tempura
Toro no kariagi – fried chicken
Steamed gyoza
Beef negima with asparagus
Escolar tataki
Crazy maki – shrimp tempura
Volcano sushi


9:05 PM Phil
Ah well
9:05 PM Sassy
Puritanical b.s.
9:06 PM Phil
Yep