As various American Gods are shown to have feet of clay, it's good to find things you want to buy from people you want to support. Penzey's spices, for example. Or AV Crosswords, which sent this out today. If you are a word lover and don't subscribe to AVXW, you really should.

Well, this one is named after a fruit, even though it flies. Which is confusing.

H Mart finally opened in Davis square! And boy do they have a lot of different types of mushrooms! It was too crowded to take pics of the rest of the store but there's lots of good produce, frozen dumplings, meal kits, and sadly a dearth of eat-in foods or French patisserie.

I'd be more appeased by this apology from the post office about having damaged the enclosed letter if a) it hadn't been dated December 3rd and b) it hadn't been addressed to somebody other than me on a street other than my own.

And yes I delivered the letter by hand to the address on the envelope

H Mart doth protest too much, me thinks

Packing sucks, but I do find cool stuff. Here is a picture of Mama Topaz and me on the day I became Frau Doktor Professor Gutbezahl

Moonbow!!