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I’m glad for you, @CHAS and hope that your vision continues to improve.

My retina specialist told me that there was a 50 percent chance I could be blind in my right eye after cataract surgery. Then he paused and said, “that’s one in two.” Yeah, I can do the math. So I waited a few more years until my vision was so awful it was making my work life stupid. It’s turned out mostly great.

Under promise, over deliver?

Chas, I hope you feel and see better soon! I had cataract surgery a couple years ago (one at a time), and it is a miraculous thing.

I’m high risk retinally (had to have one tacked down with a laser 6 months after cataract surgery), but it is all way better than how I used to see.

Copperplate script is hard to read!

@Jodi That’s lovely.

This is one of my favorite songs of his. I used to sing this with a friend, a lot.

Electric

I’m just not that fussy. As long as Mr. AM brews it and delivers it to my nightstand before I wake up, I’m happy!

Oh yum!

I’m a big Hawaiian poke fan, too. Love tuna.

Crispy roasted chickpeas yes. Crispy roasted garbanzo beans sounds wrong.

@wtg We only had EVOO, too. Loved the brownies anyway!

@wtg Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool is decent!

Yes, frogging is ripping because you rip-it rip-it rip-it.

My cousin in Pasadena is on voluntary evacuation, may get changed to mandatory. Her son at Pepperdine sheltered in place in the library a couple weeks ago when fire went through campus. Kids went home early, finals canceled. He’s at home under that voluntary evacuation order right now. Was supposed to return to school next week.

My uncle (her dad) in South Pasadena doesn’t have an evacuation order, but the power keeps going in and out.

I saw that the Episcopal church in Altadena burned.

@wtg I’m younger than both of them, IRL! But older than SK for sure.

Well, it’s in Las Vegas, so it’s a feature not a bug! Yo ho ho!

@Jodi Smoked paprika is great for a deep bacon-y zing when you’re not eating meat! We love it, too. Sprinkle on split pea soup…

@wtg Thanks, we’re friends in real life, met at Sonata camp in 2000. Our friend group is nicknamed the AdagioBabes! So I knew it was Adagio somethingorother.

I’m in! We eat lots of those dark fruits and veggies, and i could be persuaded to eat more dark chocolate. Don’t forget the Smitten Kitchen olive oil brownies!

Covid on top of a stroke, that’s just awful.

I’ve been in touch with her sister Sheryl (I can’t remember her forum name), and it is indeed difficult trying to organize from a distance. Teachum’s husband passed away last year, so it’s a pile on of hard times.

@wtg I love Smitten Kitchen. I mostly cook from online sites, hers and NYT especially. But I bought her book to be supportive, and then gave it to my sister, who likes cookbooks.

We loved the olive oil brownies. My kids did, too. Densely chocolate. Didn’t taste like olive oil.

The proliferation of assisted living/memory care centers makes me nuts. Yes, we need a way to care for our elders. But it feels like the centers are in it for the money, not about the care.