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Shepherd's Pie recipe.
By request, here is my Shepherd's Pie recipe. This is the large batch version, but it is what I made. Aside from missing lamb, this is a fairly traditional recipe, with the obvious substitution of animal milk for rice milk and leaving out butter. Shepherd's pies were originally a way to use leftover meat, so any number of ingredients were thrown ( Read more... ) -
Shepherd's Pie for Yule
Kit (Our WWOOFER) and I have just finished baking a shepherd's pie for Yule. I make a few casserole dishes worth every year, and I usually don't take home leftovers. Shepherd's pie is one of my favorite dishes, but it is usually too time intensive to make for an average dinner. This is the only time of year I'm certain to make it.
yarrowkat has been ( Read more... ) -
I need virtual machine hosting
I need a place to park a relatively large virtual machine (32gb disk+512mb memory) that I can assign a public ip address to. Latency is a concern (I log into it nearly every day), and bandwidth is relatively low.
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Update on the Burglary.
While I was gone, this story was published in the Albuquerque Journal about tracking the burglars with a GPS signal. It tells the part of the story I didn't have when I left, how exactly the police caught the burglars.
Albuquerque Journal Article
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Boston => Albuquerque Trip Report
I've just completed the 2,374 mile trip from Boston to Albuquerque. I was supposed to be back yesterday, but an ice storm in Oklahoma kept us in Oklahoma City overnight. If you want real time updates from my trip, here they are:
(For your reading convenience, here was everyone's codenames:)- Blackwing = desertwind
- Falcon = catcheshiseye
- Golden Egg = Moving Van
- Mother Goose ( Read more... )
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Visiting the USS Constitution in Boston
Tomorrow morning I'm flying out with korith and desertwind to ~Boston. korith's mother has decided to move to New Mexico, so we're heading out to make that happen.
We'll pack her things on Sunday, then desertwind will fly Mom back while korith and I drive the moving truck across the country ( Read more... ) -
Burglary.
A few weeks ago, we had a break-in at sunflowerriver. That was a terrible experience, save I suppose for the wisdom and countermeasures we put in place ( Read more... ) -
Tour de Tucson 2008
I've just finished the Tour de Tucson, which ends my racing season this year. I placed 599th place (912th last year), with a time of 5 hours, 16 minutes, 6 seconds. (search that page for "ALAN POST") This is a personal best, as my time last year was 5 hours, 30 minutes, 36 secondsAlas, this wasn't good enough for a platinum. I placed platinum ( Read more... )
