Long, boring ramblings of interest only to the person who posted them. You know....journaling....

( Job brain dump )

Someone just clipped my car.

I was a block away from work and they changed lanes into me.

Now I have to deal with the hassle of making a claim, getting a rental car, and getting my car fixed.

What a great start to the day.

( Now with pictures )

Today I performed a very intricate experiment concerning the smoke point of olive oil when sauteing. It involved adding the oil to a hot pan, having it immediately catch fire, trying to get a pot lid out to smother the flame while moving the pot out from under the increasingly black microwave, giving up and taking it outside to burn off, and then ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday ash_grey_sky!

• Got a raise today (retroactive to January 1)
• Got the CFO to realize how important it is to me to get out of the Land of Spikey Bats
• Got 1 step closer to getting another article accepted by MSDN Magazine (though they haven't given me a pub. date on the first one yet, even though they think it's good).
• Didn't even have to use my AK

I gotta say it was a ( Read more... )

Attempted my first bit of Serious Cooking today. This involved procuring a cast iron skillet and various other bits and then pan searing some blackened tuna steaks. There was quite a bit of smoke (to be expected, Note To Self: use the burner under the vent hood) and a suprisingly small amount of time spent with food actually on the heat (total ( Read more... )

Back at work ( Read more... )

I'm guessing this still works.

Got back from a decent visit to Tulsa. Meals and general hanging out were more fun than the New Years party itself, owing more to the huge number of people I didn't know and my unwillingness to actually try to meet any of them than anything else. Still the trip was well worth it.

As airspaniel mentioned ash_grey_sky and I had vistors ( Read more... )

I hope I'm wrong.

( Peer pressure HP Meme )