So Fi and I--but mostly I--just invented a really good chicken pot pie variant, and I want to write it down now before I forget. No pictures 'cause they turned out horrible.

Ingredients
Filling1 lb chicken (we used thigh meat ( Read more... )

It has occurred to me that now is as good a time as any to inform the wider internet (at least, whatever portion of it is reading my livejournal...) that I am not dead.

It wasn't exactly touch-and-go, but for a while it was pretty scary, especially early last week when a second visit to the E.R. revealed that the stabbing pain that had been ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was a straight-up adventure. Complete with blood, pain, tears, and the kindly intervention of so many, many people ( Read more... )

I'm home safe in Salt Lake now, and I don't really want to update Livejournal because there are so many pictures and it's such a daunting task, but if I don't tackle it now I never will. And also I miss my friends. So, to the Asian Art Museum ( Read more... )

So I think the last I wrote was Tuesday morning, and we were planning to head to the Asian Art Museum and the Japanese Tea Gardens. Well, we ended up not going--after the excitement of the Muir Woods and Catching Fire on Monday people were feeling kind of tired, so we ended up just lazing about in the morning, and then heading out for sushi.


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We got a late start yesterday, which meant a kind of lovely leisurely morning (for everyone except Zach, who had to go to the doctor). We headed out by 11 or so though for San Francisco, which is some sort of choke point on this peninsula; you have to go through the city to get anywhere on the other side, and oddly there are no main thoroughfares ( Read more... )

So yesterday was the most lovely day I've had in a long, long time ( Read more... )

The longed-for day is finally here ( Read more... )

I have just discovered that it is possible to take photos with my Macbook's Facetime HD camera. It is entirely likely that I will now use this power for great evil.


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Well, we've wrapped up phase 1 of the big project at work. Yesterday I said goodbye to my first-line reviewers, who are contractors; they've worked hard and done a good job, overall, and I hope we can get them back for another project soon. (Of course, better for them to find full-time employment somewhere--I remember my own contractor days, and ( Read more... )