flaming walnuts

missed from yesterday: the walnut story. mr smear *hates* walnuts, but if he hasn't had pancakes (with ground flaxseed) then it's the next best source of omega-3. the other day he had the bright idea of putting chocolate syrup on the walnut, which was wildly successful. yesterday, when i offered him walnuts with chocolate syrup, he said no, and asked me to put a single drop of the jalapeno hot sauce on one of them for him to try.

let me be clear: mr smear experimenting with food is new, and absolutely thrilling for me. so i carefully put a single drop on a walnut, and he loved it! so he asked me to pour the hot sauce on all the walnuts. liberally.

and he ate the shit out of it 🤯

today:

it was a pretty calm morning. i left for work early so that i could have a chat with astute and discuss the politics surrounding the war. it was supposed to be half an hour, but an additional hour flew past before i realized that i needed to go back to my office.

an electrician came to our apartment while i was on that call, and was unable to get mr smear's bedroom light to behave badly. of course. so he tightened things up and hopefully it'll be fine now. that cost a whole lot of money we didn't need to spend... i didn't even try to get our landlords to pay the bill (but i did make sure they knew about it).

it was an odd sort of workday, punctuated by a mission to tamir for falafel and salt 'n vinegar chips, and again for vegan bourekas.

i got home with barely enough time to shower before joining a webinar with bijan kian, which was very interesting.

i'm tired, and i'm probably going to bed shortly.