patience ❎ @patience@witches.town

the oddity about tonight is my head feels fairly ok now that i've found a balance with my anti-D/anti-anx meds after three months of trials, but my body feels wiped out even though i haven't done anything strenuous since friday. sure, some sore leg muscles persist, but where the h*ck did all my energy go rn. i have, like, routine chores and life stuff to do

i put graffiti — the script system from PalmOS — on my phone today

i also found there's a way to put a palm emulator on my phone, but the engine costs money w/ no demo. and i'd need to find the roms for the versions i'd want to run, such as 3.5.2H or 4.0

and if you're thinking, "gosh, how baroque, patience. why would you do that?" it's because its UX simplicity & flexibility is why i used my palm device (a red handspring visor edge) more each day back then than i've used my handheld phones in the years since, my BB-compatible device excepted. the "convergence" period of PDAs & phones sort of ended that, but the basic PDA principle was incredibly handy

that was brown basmati rice, canned tuna (skillet-heated with olive oil), and the fiddleheads were steamed, then sautéed in peppercorn bacon fat, all of it garnished with parm and fresh-ground black pepper

[personal notes: my late grandmum, big on southern cooking (her entire lifetime in eastern texas), often used the very treyf bacon fat thing for her fresh-snapped green beans. she also died of a coronary and previously had a triple-bypass in a family otherwise lacking a history of heart disease. i think she would have approved of this dish, even as i'm positive she never got to try fiddleheads during her lifetime]

(that's plain ol’ canned tuna in the corners because that's what i had on hand)

so tonight i winged it with the remaining fiddleheads and ventured heavily into the treyf, i'm afraid to say. this is less photogenic than last night, but it's something i suppose https://witches.town/media/XoGNbJ4ULcVL71xzE7I

so if anyone has any other fiddlehead recipe ideas with stuff one might usually have around the house (or can get quickly at the corner grocery), send me what you've got!

it seems most of the other recipes i could try with the remainder of my fiddleheads seem to centre on either going to the store and buying either salmon or maybe prosciutto, and unfortunately i have the budget for neither at this time

so probably more pasta it is. i might try roasting some tho

and that's exactly what i did https://witches.town/media/0tuFc9XIA1jwGlaQb0g https://witches.town/media/9_iH5iOlVNt3-48Oa40

if I get a second wind tonight I might steam and sautée some fiddleheads

I'm terrible. I haven't showered since coming home, but I did make sure no ticks joined me. I was tuckered out by hours of squatting and bending my back and the almost two-hour commute across town

(oh, and: that forest was inside the toronto city limits)

I won't know until later when I strip to the bare, shake out my clothes, bathe, and wash my hair on whether i've gotten any ticks, but it will have been worth it either way for this haul of fiddleheads i'm bringing home https://witches.town/media/zeBortdlbPvele6AxkA https://witches.town/media/5_Gwhy2WXE8Ef-HQaFk

i'm gonna go get ticks this afternoon

that pic earlier was my first selfie with the newly-configured phone. it takes better pictures than the old one for sure 👍

puns. puns, not pins

when they rolled her in from tests, I made a couple of bad pins: "liver? damn near killed 'er!" and "you're just gutted by my being here, huh"

she's still on a lot of drugs. a lot

old https://witches.town/media/t8CBaWlTD8oJ83xbpJQ

update: she couldn't have any but she accepted the raincheque and wanted to watch me drink the milkshake. what she didn't know is that was my second milkshake of the day and I'm still on this cheap sugar high halp

I'm omw to visiting my friend now recovering from liver donation and smuggling in her favourite freezy treat. it'll be a raincheque if she can't have any and will still be a raincheque if she can