I judge me first attempt at potstickers to be a moderate success, an I'll definitely try them again. However, in the future I need to have some hoisin sauce on hand, as soy sauce doesn't quite do it. It all goes well with a beer, though.

There are certain websites that I read and use on a regular basis and when they go down I find myself refreshing the page every half hour or so just to see if it is back up yet. My top five are:

1. Making Light
2. LiveJournal
3. Craigslist
4. Gmail
5. the private message board of which I am a member

What internet sites are you lost without?

Why am I having such a difficult time figuring out the tune to "The Jolly Beggarman"? It's a simple song, not like one of the tunes that loops and doubles and trills all over the place. But I need to figure out how to play it, if only to get the chorus out of my head.

We'll go no more aroving, aroving in the night ( Read more... )

Trying to remember the name of that song you have stuck in your head? Don't know the lyrics? Wish you could just it an have a search engine find it for you?

Well, you can, sort of. Midomi.com doesn't always get it, but that may be more of a factor of my ability to carry a tune. So freaking neat!

The recent kerfuffle over at Making Light reminded me that I probably don't back my data up nearly as often as I should. I suppose I can start making better use of the iMac to store copies of new stuff on the iBook, but I need a less time consuming way to do it.

Hey, people who are smarter than me: how do you back up your data?

Is anyone else having a problem getting LJ userpics to load, or is it just me?

My little red wagon is a sad little thing. It is made entirely of plastic, extruded in some factory in China, purchased for $20 at the Family Dollar and hastily assembled right in the store. Even the wheels are made of plastic--hollow plastic at that. It can hold *maybe* 30 pounds and I'm waiting for the day when it falls apart on a grocery run. I ( Read more... )

I've been giving a lot of thought lately to how I want to live. My ideal would be to leave a small carbon footprint, support small and local business and good environmental and labor practices, keep myself in good health, and be economically responsible. What I need to determine is my level of commitment as my ideals come up against the realities ( Read more... )

Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth!

Well, that's another semester of Choral Union done and another amazing piece to add to my mental list of music in which I have participated. It's also my second Vaughan Williams setting of Walt Whitman, the first being Dona Nobis Pacem (which remains one of my absolute favorites ( Read more... )

I just got back from the monthly "beginners session" at the Willy St Co-op. It was much smaller than it has been other times I have attended. (I would end up at a small one the first time I actually came to play, wouldn't I?) There were three whistles, three fiddles, a mandolin, and a button accordion. (Huzzah! I just spelled accordion correctly on ( Read more... )