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[Jun. 18th, 2009|02:32 pm] |
I guess I ought to catch y'all up on what I've been doing.
Mostly wasting too much time putzing on the computer!
I dragged Bob back to Dublin (TX) for one more attempt at finding my great-grandmother's birthplace. Unfortunately, we still haven't found it and it was too #$@#$ hot already for any serious exploring. When we got back home, I slept for 14 hours (I told people that the first thing I was going to do was to sleep until I couldn't sleep no mo').
I've been trying to do all of the cooking, but Bob sometimes tempts me to a restaurant. We planted a container with herbs and the dill and parsley had gone bonkers, so I made salmon poached in white wine and topped it with fresh dill and parsley. I've also made stacked chorizo enchiladas (aka mexican lasagna) and pork roast. Lots of leftovers have been had.
There's a small economy grocery store (Elrods) near where we live that caters to a large hispanic population. I like chorizo, but when I tried to buy some at Market Street a couple of years ago, I made the mistake of reading the ingredient list. The first ingredient listed was pork salivary glands. TMI, TMI!!! One of us made the crack "Makes your mouth water, doesn't it?", which has become a standing joke between us. At Elrod's, I looked through the wide variety of chorizo looking for one that didn't feel the need to enumerate which parts of the animal were used. I don't mind if they lie to me! One brand from San Antonio was called "Kielbasa Chorizo" - a lot of Germans settled in that area. This is the sausage I got and it was tasty.
One of Bob's co-workers "gifted" me with Amish Friendship bread starter. The recipe is more like a coffee cake. Tasty, but I'm not sure I want to be making this every ten days. I'm going to try it in my bread machine.
I've cleared out the den closet in preparation for re-insulating the attic; most of it has gone into the craft room, which is now hip deep in belly dance gear.
I've spent two afternoons over at Mom's, getting her computer system working. We ended up having to buy her a new monitor because the one she had, the one Mark had gotten for her, and my old one had all gone bad. But I got her printer working - go me!
I've been working a little on an Etsy store, a website and Amazon Mechanical Turk (7 bucks! Wow!). But, mostly spending too much time playing computer games. |
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| Kitties! |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|12:18 pm] |
I know that all of my friends will like this.
A person on the SDMB put out a call for kitty pictures, then made this video
Turn on closed captioning to get kitty and owner names. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) minirth - Amira makes an appearance a couple of times! Check her out at around 1:59
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[Apr. 30th, 2009|08:18 pm] |
I was rather amused at this one. Surprised I scored so low on extraversion:
Your result for The Brutally Honest Personality Test...
Loser- INTP
( Read more... ) |
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[Apr. 29th, 2009|08:01 am] |
Very good article on the issues surrounding swine flu and reporting:
Sound the Alarm? Swine Flu Bind
Selected quotes:
"If the public health emergency declared by the W.H.O. and the Obama administration turns out to be a false alarm, officials will be ridiculed for unnecessarily worrying millions of people — perhaps even for creating fear to justify their budgets.
If a pandemic materializes, some of the same critics are very likely to blame officials for failing to prevent it."
"To evaluate outbreaks, [Epidemiologists] need, among other things, accurate information about the numbers of cases; where they are occurring; the age distribution of those infected; and what contact they might have had with one another. At this stage of the swine flu investigation, such data are sorely lacking."
"H1N1 appears to be passed easily from person to person, and reports from the United States suggest that some cases may be mild and therefore may go undetected, allowing the disease to spread further. ... [avian flu] has shown little ability to pass from person to person ... SARS ... is easily spread and virulent." |
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[Apr. 27th, 2009|10:53 am] |
I have a strange personal superstition. I feel that whenever I get a really strong sense of déjà vu it is because something is happening at that time which will have a major effect on my life.
Last Thursday I was getting such a strong sense of déjà vu that I was almost dizzy.
Today, I got a meeting notification for a one on one meeting with my group manager. Eep! |
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| Amazing miniature collection |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|11:49 am] |
Another thing I found on Ichiroya - a vast collection of antique miniatures. You must look at the pictures: Wow
Here is an explanation. Sorry, it's already been sold. |
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| Attention Deficit Disorder article. |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|04:28 pm] |
ADD has always made it hard for me to do well in a business environment. I found this page and its description of the various coping strategies of women with ADD to be very interesting.
I think I'm some sort of earthworm/cricket combo. |
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| Crafting |
[Apr. 14th, 2009|03:34 pm] |
A couple of weeks ago, we were all saying "Post here, and I'll give you five topics to talk about". Well, I got five topics from Dave Woo, and I just now finished the first one.
( Click here and you'll see why )
BTW: Post here, and I'll give you five topics to talk about. |
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| Hey Biggirl! |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|11:43 am] |
You wanna see what 3 mil buys down here?
1707 Cheek Sparger
This guy is an idiot - he built this on a feeder road, on a lot that is barely bigger than the house he built. |
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[Mar. 30th, 2009|08:02 am] |
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