Wednesday

The sky this morning seems as smokey as or even more smokey than it has been. I cannot imagine how horrible it must be closer to the actual fires. But, as I'm thinking this, the dude on the radio says it should be leaving tomorrow and gone by the weekend. Plus, he says that Sunday promises cooler temperatures and maybe some rain.

That latter is particularly fabulous news since my last afternoon Diamond Mariner game is Sunday. If I did not have to sit in hot sun, or any sun, I'd be so thrilled. Rain would be outstanding but no sun would be fine enough.

Today's baseball is also an afternoon game. My plan is to use it as the back drop to The Great Kitchen Cabinet Reorganization of 2017. This morning will be working out some sewing kinks.

It's another day of being inside because of heat and smoke but also, today, there's the addition of Metallica. They are in concert tonight across the street. The police have told us to expect the crowds to start causing traffic flow issues about 4ish. I don't need to go anywhere so I can just enjoy the madness.

I spent some of yesterday watching the first 15-20 minutes of a bunch of British/Australian/whatever TV shows on Acorn. None really stuck. I watched the first episode of the new Vera and it was great. Something about that show is just so compelling. I have to use closed captions and even then, I don't get a lot of the colloquialism and the plot is basically the same every time and still... I love it. But, I think Acorn and I are headed to splitsville pretty soon. They have two new shows coming this month and unless one or both of them are block busters, that will be it.

I just looked up the term block buster... never knew: 1940s denoting a huge aerial bomb capable of destroying a whole block of streets.

Off to the sewing room now.

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I use baking powder about once every decade - a teaspoon there and 10 years later, a half teaspoon there. Today's kitchen reorg uncovered 3 tins of baking powder - 2 unopened, one with a store sticker of a store that closed at least 15 years ago.

Seems like the task should have been done years ago and also years before that. Holy crap. I did find my original Google Chromecast which I spent a week looking for last year. I don't have a clue why it was in the kitchen cabinet.

But now dishes I rarely use are stacked in a cabinet I can't get to easily. And the food stuffs now have more room so that I can actually see what's in there. Oh, and come the olive shortage? You will want to be my best friend. Kamata, green, black... I gotta 'em... LOTS of 'em.

I did break my very favorite bowl. I'm very sad about that. I sure hope Goodwill has another one.

TBS - The Guest Book. Hill-Ar-EE-Us. The first episode was fun. The second episode was a Watch-it-again-right-now GEM. Can't wait for the next one. Maybe Stockard Channing's greatest roll.

The Mariners won today in a really good game with some fun highlights. Got the kitchen done and all cleaned up and made a trip down to the dumpsters where I caught the Metallica crowd filing in. Upstairs with the door closed and the air conditioner droning, their sound check sounded like dumpsters falling off a truck. Down there, in the open air, it sounds more like they are dragging the dumpsters across the parking lot.

Now I need to decide what's for dinner.