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Back to work tomorrow. Wahhh! But at least we’re all set to start a new year:

• Tree and inside holiday decorations are down (outside lights…well, eventually)
• Stale Christmas cookies flung into a ravine
• Taxes and bills all paid
• Fridge and freezer are full of food so I don’t have to think too much about dinner choices for the next few weeks
• Ellie’s home with Kendra

Today was one last big cooking day; made a batch of Good Eats beef stew (ate leftover stew) and Confit Byaldi, the Ratatouille dish from the Pixar movie with the rat chef. Wow, was that good…you’d think bland because of the vegetables involved, but the piperade really contributes a lot and the little bit of vinagrette drizzle really brings it together.

Surprise to nobody: the producers of Expelled purposely conflated social and biological Darwinism in order to create controversy. You know, like the artificial ‘controversy’ they’re supposed to be teaching in science classes, despite the fact that there *is* no scientific controversy, only a philosophical one (at best).

Happy new year folks.