the birds are really hitting the birdfeeders hard: i refilled the sunflower seeds last weekend, and birds emptied that after a few days. they're also visiting the suet feeder in greater frequency, hardly any visitors during the winter, but now i put in two new suet cakes. i saw chickadees and downy woodpeckers.
i brought my musubi to share with my parents. unfortunately my rice was too dry, and once refrigerated, the rice became hard as a rock. a minute in the microwave managed to soften things up, at the expense of the nori wrap, which became a little soggy but still edible.
around 12:45pm my mother and i went out for a walk. we visited mt.auburn street, where my mother wanted to get some produce at arax market. being one of the few middle eastern markets opened on sundays, business was brisk. my mother ended up only buying some long green hot peppers before we started to head back. we also ended up going to super vanak. we didn't see anything we wanted, but my mother didn't want to leave empty-handed so she picked out a $3 turkish fruit cake before we saw some senna tea ($4) which she also got. on our way back, a neighbor had a table on their front lawn filled with free bottles of hand sanitizers; my mother ended up taking one.
at 5pm we grilled the drumsticks which my mother had marinated in a cajun spice all afternoon. after having tried grilled wings, i prefer smaller wings over these larger drumsticks. but you can't deny the price on these drumsticks, which were just 87¢/lbs. we grilled them first on high heat to crispy them up, before cooking them to doneness with low-medium heat. before coming out of the barbecue, we also coated them in sweet thai chili sauce, which is our secret weapon for delicious drumsticks. the chili sauce basically covered up whatever cajun marinade my mother had used.
just the drumsticks were enough for dinner, but my mother also cooked up some cauliflower along with a stirfry of smoked ham with the long green peppers we bought earlier.
i left around 7pm. the sun had just set but it was still bright out, though i did put on my lights for safety.
i keep on trying to install big sur onto a thumb drive, but it always seem to get stuck with less than a minute remaining. when i got back home i tried installing on a different sandisk thumb drive that was slightly faster. just like before, everything seemed okay until it got to the end and go stuck. i waited for nearly an hour at the less than a minute remaining screen, then finally gave up. i'm going to try again tonight, leave my machine on overnight, to see if it'll finally install. i also zapped my NVRAM, which some of said fixed their installation issue. it's happened to enough people that it's a legit issue but apple doesn't seem to address it. makes me really leary of ever doing a system upgrade without first doing a complete backup.