In which I share some of my research about diet and overweight. It turns out dietary fat is fine; it’s the refined carbohydrates – white flour, white sugar – and the HFCS that are fucking killing you and making all those children fat and sedentary. On January 5th, I started a weight-loss contest with a […]
In which I went out to eat. I went to my CCNA class today. It’s been on Tuesdays at 1:30 for two terms now, but today there was an Intro to ColdFusion class in the room (do people still use ColdFusion?) and my instructor wasn’t in his office. So naturally I went to eat instead. […]
In which this is a quick primer for all y’all who are innarested in packing your own lunches all healthy and cute-style. Matro said this, so I’m saying this: Bento boxes are nothing more than lunch boxes that happen to be from Japan, so you can put non-Japanese food into them if you want (and […]
In which Dr. Mel’s going to Iceland next month, so he had to do some stash reduction. The good news is that Mel, in a sudden stash-reduction fit, sent me two boxes of yarn:
In which I record my first-ever bread baking experience in great and tedious detail! Yay! I am not a baker. I have never made a loaf of bread in my life (except for in a bread machine, and that can’t possibly count for anything). In spite of this handicap, I am going to bake a […]
In which I tell you all I know about the Polaroid SX-70! I have two SX-70s. One is a lovely silver and leather top-shelf SLR, and the other is a black plastic Model 3 (the non-SLR model). I’m lucky in that I got them both really cheap, and they both function beautifully and close completely. […]
In which I tell you about the gifts I received. For Christmas I got a Kindle gift certificate (yay moar ebooks!), a red goblet, candy (some of it filled with tequila, I kid you not!), a hand-made tote bag, cash, and a little herb garden kit. I really wanna buy myself some sort of shiny […]
In which there’s a blues festival. Saturday morning my alarms went off at 5:35 and 5:45 respectively. I showered, dressed, grabbed my gig bag and walked out the door at 6:15. IN THE MORNING. After sleeping maybe two hours. Curt and Cookie picked me up, we grabbed breakfast at McDonald’s and drove to Richland, where […]
In which there are books. In various formats. I’ll start school in eighteen days (if the financial aid office at WWCC ever awards me any aid, that is) and probably won’t read much that isn’t assigned for the next nine months. That being true, I thought I’d share my current reading-for-pleasure list with you. “Real” […]
In which a tradition is born. A year ago, Left Coast Girlie and I went to see the Shakespeare Uncork’d production together and had such a great time we did it again this year. Here’s how it went: She said she’d be here at six, but for some reason I remembered it as seven and […]
