slow cooker. i don’t like cooking but i have to feed this meat sack every day so anything that allows for that to be easier. pressure cooker, sure, but i’m a fan of “dump it in the slow cooker on my lunch break and then eat it for dinner” levels of effort.

speaking of effort, i’m an idiot and am in a go-at-your-own-pace degree program, but the semester ends in 16 days and i have… four classes to complete. gonna be a long two weeks.

i’m largely asking because my Buddhism deeply informs my vegan practice. it seems logically consistent that to believe in the morality of not killing, that same morality should be applied as universally as possible, and thus also ought to apply to my diet. that kind of logic was instrumental in my “conversion” to veganism; applying that logic in various situations allowed me to make different choices which have eventually become habits/lifestyle that rejects killing as much as possible.

two things, i think: my rice cooker is hella cheap; in fact, it was free from someone on Craigslist i think. that doesn’t mean it’s bad, necessarily, but in this case the bottom of the rice was burnt and the top was soggy. also the taste of this ended up like fairly sweet. i am wondering if there was an issue with the tomato paste i used; when i open a can i freeze little tablespoon sized balls of tomato paste and i just tossed two of those in. it just ended up soggy and weirdly tomato-sweet.

that said, there are a couple folks who recommended this recipe, so if anyone wants to give it a shot and see, it’s here.

been just preposterously busy with work as i just got kind of thrust into a new role as a sysadmin for which i am entirely unqualified, lol. but! in order to swim rather than sink i’m now learning Powershell, which will hopefully be useful long-term. we’re also in a season of needing a lot of work on our home; my wife and i just finished rebuilding a fence that blew over in a windstorm, and then as we were preparing for a flooring project we found mold in some drywall that we’ve had to isolate and will need to mitigate, and just this morning we had someone out to do a yearly furnace check and we need a new actuator in the furnace. hopefully by the time this is all done i’ll both know powershell and also be a functional handyman, ha! which is something i never had any interest in before.

outside of work and home repair, i’m trying to start a habit of yoga in addition to my meditation practice, but that’s been tough because the room i usually do yoga in is the room that closed off due to the mold remediation! lol/sob.

also just trying to stay on top of cooking. my wife and i make a giant weekly pot of Nigerian style jollof rice, and that’s been a great relief so we don’t need to figure out lunches for the first few days of the week.

so, boring life stuff but busy. never a dull moment.