We've been trying to eat in more, and part of reaching that goal is preparing more food ahead of time and having it handy in the freezer. To help with that, we went freezer shopping and wound up buying one from Lowes, who threw in free delivery - not to bad ( Read more... )

Lately Julie's been wanting chocolate in general, and chocolate with peanut butter in particular. That's usually more my taste, so who am I to argue? I thought about doing some peanut butter scones with chocolate chips, but as fast and easy as they are, I do like to make other things as well. After a bit of digging, I settled on this particular ( Read more... )

Just wanted the first episode of AMC's remake of "The Prisoner ( Read more... )

"If you can't open it, you don't own it" is the Maker's Motto, and an attitude I appreciate a little more every day ( Read more... )

Julie and I listen to a variety of podcasts while driving in the car. Among our favorites are Coverville - an all cover show (unless he does an "Originalville" where he plays the original of well known covers), Acapodcast - which plays a variety of acapella music - including all voice covers of popular songs including the instrument sounds, and ( Read more... )

I'm thinking the next thing I should read is Asimov's Foundation series ( Read more... )

I enjoyed the tour of Rosehill Mausoleum. Somewhere I got the idea that the building wasn't always open, but it actually is. It's nice to have the informed comments of a tour guide, but you can go see it anytime ( Read more... )

We have a lot of ambitious ideas about stuff we'd like to build for ourselves - including some non-trivial furniture ( Read more... )

We're watching Good Eats, specifically the program on pound cake. I've been a pretty good cook for a long time, with a lot of books. I've even read the book that was Alton Brown's main reference early on. Even so, I still learn something useful nearly every episode ( Read more... )

I remember reading "The Lord Of The Rings" around high school, and I hunted down a variety of Tolkein's other works around then and early college. While I've always considered myself a fan to at least some degree, I haven't actually touched anything by him since then ( Read more... )