March? I barely knew her!

Finally coming to the end of the flu. Still have the hacking cough and getting through a box of tissues a day, but it’s better than the start of the week.

Having said all that, still not a lot to talk about. I have finally done my taxes, although with the current state of the IRS, I’m not exactly convinced my refund will be coming to me any time soon. It’ll be nice once it does arrive though, as it’ll move me a big step closer to Weird Financial Goal.

I am still trying to work out Maeryn’s birthday cake. The basic contours are set: chocolate cake plus a raspberry component. But do I make it in the Berlin mold, which will be fancy, but I feel like it doesn’t have enough cake, as well as making a ganache layer much harder. Or I could use Kyoto and have a ganache filling and raspberries on top. It feels a more substantial cake size, but not overwhelming for toddler hands (I am fully aware that I’m over thinking this, and it could just be a box cake in a sheet pan and she’ll shove it into her face just the same, but left me have this!). Don’t worry, I still have two weeks left to figure it out…

First tech blog of the year has most of the first draft done. Unfortunately, it requires a vast amount of changes in the second draft, turning it from “look at this cool new technique” to more of “look at this idea that didn’t actually work out. Which is a little less fun to write up, and I need to do a few more experiments to convince myself one way or another, but I do feel it’s important to write up the things that fail as well as the things that succeed. So stay tuned for failure!