Tis the season

I threw my annual dress-up-and-eat-finger-food holiday party last weekend. This time, I was completely happy with every single thing I made. In particular, I found a great recipe for a raspberry torte that only had three layers, which meant it took about 90 minutes to make, instead of the usual three hours I usually have to reserve for German tortes.  And I will definitely make the Turkish Poğaça, a feta-stuffed bread, again, although not anytime soon because I still have three dozen left over in my freezer  that I'm trying to eat up.

As usual, I forgot to take any pictures, but my friend E remembered. Our group from grad school posed for this one. Don't we physicists clean up well?

And last night I attended a concert of early English music at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which has a Elizabethean-era theater. I had never been there before, which reminds me that at some point I need to hone my tourist skills and try hard to see more of the corners of Washington, DC that I have thus far missed. Maybe I can do that right after I finish the bathroom construction...

Bathroom, Part 10

Here we are, nearly a year after beginning the bathroom project. Another Thanksgiving come and gone, turkey and plumbing inexorably intertwined. And while the room is not done, we have made great progress.

There are walls and a door that opens completely. I can use the lights and the outlets and the bathtub. Yet to come: the shower, one more ceiling light, and the additional HVAC. That last one is a doozy, and I don't even like to think about it because I fear it will cost far more money than I have spent thus far on the entire bathroom. And to distract myself, I will take many long hot baths in my new tub.