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Week fifteen: two of five - no asterisk. I tried an experiment, to make a treat for my bro-in-law who can't have caffeine or chocolate. I made browned butter blondies. Fabulous! I'll make another batch to share.

Week fourteen: five of five with the asterisk! My first perfect week of the season, despite my lingering cold. To help clear the cold symptoms, I decided to make chili tonight, but the hamburger in the freezer smelled a bit "off" after thawing. So tonight is experimental chili, with a bunch of canned mushrooms in place of the meat. We shall see how it goes, and if it's worth replicating for the T45!

Week thirteen: one of five, no asterisks. I have no excuse but a bad cold. I'll sit at the annex to the Table for One, so I don't pass this bug along to any one else. I think my brains are dripping out of my sinuses!

Week twelve: three of five with the one asterisk and therefore one of the C-asterisks. It seems that every time I miss the show and try to catch up via theJeopardyFan.com, I miss the correct solution. Argh! I'm stuck with choir and bell choir practices twice a week until after Christmas. I think I need another slice of pie.

Week eleven: three of five. I'm really irked not to get Friday's FJ. My dad grew up in Montana, and I've been to visit family dozens of times over the years. I would swear that it was Flathead County - the locals there have been complaining about outsiders moving in and raising the prices on housing and food for years. I knew it wasn't Glacier County - that's where Dad grew up and it's losing population. In honor of Saber's birthday, and in anticipation of the coming holiday season, I'll make a Bûche De Noël. The traditional recipe is chocolate cake with coffee filling and chocolate icing, to make the rolled cake look like a log. But I've got a family member with AFib, so I used peanut butter powder in place of the cocoa. It is, if I may say, fabulous! Not mine, but this will give you an idea of what a Bûche looks like.

Week ten: a big, fat zero! (I did a little looking in my files, and found that the last time I scored a zero was Week 16 of the 2021-2022 season. It was in the middle of Amy's original run, as I was tracking the Amysterisks at the time.) All of my favorite pies are already named for the T40, so I guess I'll have to experiment and make a Boston Creme Pie!

Week nine: one of five with no asterisks. Table For One, here I come!

Week eight: three of five, with one asterisk! It's seems that it was my week for geographically related questions -- I got Wounded Knee, Shangri-La, and Zurich. My mother is descended from Swiss immigrants, but we don't have any traditional recipes. I guess I'll have to bring chocolate fondue!

I haven't heard one way or the other. I work with a summer camp, and in the last three or four years, the standard is for everyone to introduce themselves at the beginning of camp as "Susan Smith, she/her". I will have to ask some of the camp staff about verb tenses and personal pronouns. (This is "geek camp" -- they will love the question!)

I'm an old fart, so adapting to they/their/them as the pronoun for an individual has taken some time. But I have started using it, with singular verbs. It's a little weird at first, but it helps to differentiate between they referring to one or many. For example, "In the first game of the TOC, they were having a lot of difficulty with the Parliament of Vowels. But as for rowan, I think they is going to kick butt in their game."

Week seven: three of five, but no asterisk. Sorry for the late posting. I was out of town, at Homecoming for West Virginia University, where I was honored for being one of the first women in the University Marching Band 50 years ago, in 1972. I even got to ride on the back of a convertible in the parade!

Week six: four of five, with one of the asterisks! Which is, eerily, the same as last week, down to getting Monday through Thursday correct and missing the solution for Friday (though last week didn't have an asterisk). I knew that Friday's Final Jeopardy was someone in Charles Dickens, but I was trying to turn one of the Ghosts of Christmas into a weaver of tapestries. Argh!

The new detective was obviously a rich kid / legacy preference hire. The more expensive clothes, the floppy, fashionable (for the time period!) hair, and even the name - Fitzroy means "son of the king". That said, I think the character will be an interesting addition to the show. Most of Wellington's constables are streetwise and experienced, but not well-educated or well-paid. I wonder if Fitzroy will become a conduit for Eliza to information that Wellington doesn't want to give to her.

Week five: four of five without the asterisk. I sat there Friday thinking, "it's the French guy that wrote Around the World in Eighty Days... and all those other early sci-fi novels..." time!

Week four: three of five, with the asterisk! If we're celebrating Thanksgiving with our neighbors to the north this week, I'll bring an apple pie. I haven't baked one in ages; it's time I got back into the kitchen!

Week three: four of five, with two asterisks! (Or as a friend of mine used to call them, Nathan Hales -- "I only regret that I have but one ass to risk for my country!"

All of everything everyone already said.... But I really loved the tango with the black woman. Addison tells Ben that he can't really dance, but he grabs the bad-guy woman and starts to dance. And the music is the tango that shows up in many movies, but that I best remember from True Lies, with Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. FYI - It's called Por una cabeza by Carlos Gardel.

Week two: three of five. I seem to do better when I watch live, rather trying to guess from thejeopardyfan website. I had an evening meeting on Monday, and on Friday the family headed out of town for a weekend in Cass, West Virginia, an old logging town turned state park with tourist train rides up the second highest mountain in the state. Beautiful weather and a great weekend with friends and family!

Week one: three of five, without the asterisk! I was on a roll, getting the first three right and then fell apart. I was at a family reunion over the weekend, and one of my cousins made a Key Lime Mousse. Since this seems to be dessert week, I'll test the recipe, make that my contribution to the beginning of the season. (Not my photo, but a picture of the results of the same recipe!)

Saber's back! Huzzah!! I'm in.

True, Claire had no right to be mad at Jamie for having gotten married. But she had every right to be absolutely livid that he didn't tell her that he was still legally married to Laoghaire. Claire and Jamie are together for days, perhaps weeks, before they return to Lallybroch, but Jamie conveniently forgets to mention that he has another wife. I would have left him, too!

Week forty-six: three of five with both of the asterisks! I was rolling at the beginning of the week and fell apart at the end. For the year, I'm 121/230 or 52.61%. For kicks and giggles, I went back to my text files for previous years. For season 37, I was 127/235 or 54.04%, and for season 36, my records show 116/200 or 58%. I'm getting old. Who's got the Neuriva?

I'm intrigued by the idea of the Lower Decks gang on Strange New Worlds. It's going to have to be a time travel episode. According to Memory Alpha, SNW season one takes place in 2259, and LD seasons one and two take place in 2380 and 2381. That 120 year difference makes it tough for the characters to interact, without using time travel (or a holodeck adventure). It sounds like a Lower Decks version of Trials and Tribble-ations!

Week forty-five: three of five, with no asterisk. I attended a reunion picnic today, and there is plenty of macaroni salad left -- with loads of tiny bits of green onion and red bell pepper.

Is that Anton Lesser sitting at the head of the big table, at about five seconds into the video? I don't see his name associated with this on IMDB, but it sure looks like him. And it would explain why his character on Endeavour, Chief Superintendent Bright, had rather long hair for a high-ranking policeman in the early 1970s in Oxford, UK.