1/2 peck peaches
pint raspberries
5 lbs frozen blueberries (quantity last week was incorrect, it was 5 lbs too)
"a basket" of basil
quart bottle of maple syrup (for French shoggoth toast, now cooking)
one large maple candy

2 hours to kickoff

Homer's last two loaves were a failure -- far too dry. Pretty sure I added too much flour. At least they have proved suitable for making yummy bread crumbs.

Today's two, though, were pretty darned perfect, with my best crust ever.

Wish I knew what the essential difference was!

1/2 peck peaches
pint raspberries
20 lbs frozen blueberries
5 smallish bags of basil
large bottle olive oil
2 lbs quality parm
smallish bit of quality romano
8 oz pine nuts
cream soda
2 root beers

need to consult with local Scotch experts
need to buy freezer

4.5 hours to kickoff

Finishing up my run of watching all of Brisco County. (Yay DVDs!) There have been a number of surprises along the way, stuff I forgot, didn't recognize at the time, or just never saw in the first place. For instance, the last episode has Terry Bradshaw as an Army colonel, leading an elite team (clearly inspired by the super-posse from Butch ( Read more... )

All the authorities say you should have your bag packed and ready to go to the hospital four weeks before the due date. Well, it's now a bit less than three weeks to go, and as you can see here, I've got everything I can pack ready (but a fresh deck of playing cards, which I meant to buy while I was out today):


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You can definitely tell that's an Iron Chef on Dinner Impossible now. Tonight he is doing chocolate-coated bacon with almonds.

Plus: Apparently they've fixed the Audacity audio editor so that if you try to write MP3s from a 96/24 file, it writes valid 48Khz MP3 files.
Minus: My CD burning software apparently can't burn an audio CD from 48Khz MP3 files.

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Have a new power cord for my laptop; so far it seems to be working. Have a new battery for it on order ( Read more... )

I just killed five bees in the basement. (Smallish fellows, mandolinjen would probably call them wasps or hornets.)

That seems like bad news....