meatloaf science

This meatloaf is kind of fally-apart. Unfortunately I have no idea whether this is because 1) I used a beef/pork blend this time, 2) I threw in some TVP, or 3) the oven knob has gone catatonic, so I had to pull it off and set the oven by orienteering with the knob stem. I swear I'm going to have "ONLY ONE EXPERIMENTAL VARIABLE" silkscreened on my fridge.

Maybe it'll firm up on sitting. If not, hey, this sure is tasty meat-porridge.

presence of heart

letter of Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 August 1815:

We [Lamb and his sister] felt as if we had been not enough expressive of our pleasure. But our manners both are a little too much on this side of too-much-cordiality. We want presence of mind and presence of heart. What we feel comes too late, like an after thought impromptu. But perhaps you observed nothing of that which we have been painfully conscious of, and are, every day, in our intercourse with those we stand affected to through all the degrees of love.