Here’s the status on the books I’m currently reading:

• Writer’s Market 2007 Deluxe Edition: Mostly read; also need to evaluate the online service

• The Oldways Table (essays and recipes): About half-read; done making recipes
• College Cooking: Read; half-done making recipes
• Super Natural Cooking: Almost done reading; need to make recipes

I also have more that I haven’t started on yet.

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A handful of years ago I read the first three books of Glen Cook’s “Black Company” series. I very much enjoyed the first one, thought the second was okay, and loved the third. Since then I have been repeatedly lambasted for daring to think of his words as anything other than absolutely masterful. So, here I quote my reply to the latest person to take me to task for this:

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Just a brief post to catch up on things. Yes, we have heat again; I hate our oil delivery company. How they managed to sludge up the tank so badly in less than three years is beyond me. Our HVAC repair folk are awesome, though. I can highly recommend the Baltimore-based MYCAV to anyone in that area.

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Really, I’ll be making some blog posts and writing reviews again soon. It’s just freezing here again since our heat went out yesterday (again). It’s been a long week, so I haven’t gotten much done.

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On those rare occasions when my husband isn’t home for dinner, I tend to lack the motivation to cook much of anything. Unfortunately this doesn’t tend to lead to a healthy meal. I had just enough motivation to try something new the other day, however, and it worked out particularly well, so I thought I’d share.

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Just to recap, our fun with our oil company started this summer when our A/C went out. We were planning to “fire” them after our current contract for oil runs out this year anyway (three strikes is definitely plenty), but today we found a fourth strike.
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Want. Heat.

Thankfully it was a comparatively warm weekend, but it’s rather cold in here this morning.

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We just got this furnace put in this summer. Today it seems to be spewing out fumes and sounding funny. So, I turned off the heat and someone will be by tonight to check it out. Thankfully it’s a sunny day and there’s a nice bay window in this room. I still feel kind of cruddy from the fumes, but hopefully that’ll wear off soon.
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I guess it’s time for my once-every-few-months political link. I do try to avoid them for the most part, but every now and then I see something so good I can’t resist. At least I try to let them speak for themselves.

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We decided to try out a restaurant nearby last night that we’ve wanted to try forever. It’s a weird combination of a sort of downscale decor with upscale food. When you look around at the cheap veneered tables you just don’t expect the sheer awesomeness of the sesame-curry crusted salmon.

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