Technically, New Year is on Feb 17th, but people have been celebrating early this weekend. Heck, the local Asian mall started as early as Feb 6th. I had to work this weekend though, so will have to see my family next week. It's President's Day too, but I don't have the money to go shopping today. Bills are wiping me out.
There was a sale on chicken thighs, so I made a sort-of chicken stroganoff to use up my mushrooms and sour cream. However, I always misjudge how long it takes to cook the chicken; it will look like it's done outside, but still be pink inside. I cooked it in the pan trying to make crispy skin and also have some fond to make sauce with, but I can never get the skin crisp enough. Oh well. Maybe I should just stick to using my crockpot to cook chicken.
Meanwhile I found a free software program called Krita which seems to be free of AI and is somewhat like Photoshop. I'll try once again to make a new book cover for Prelude, so I can try to sell it as an ebook. I wish I was better at design or had inspiration to draw something. Maybe I need to reread it again to think of a specific scene to highlight, or maybe I just need to repurpose a Sidney Paget drawing. (Of course Paget just did the short stories, not A Study in Scarlet. It looks like Richard Gutschmidt did the novel.) Ooh I also found this interesting article on Bluesky about a Henry Paget, apparently no relation to Sidney or Walter Paget. But he did ask Doyle to help him after a jewel robbery.
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