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the beat goes on
I need potato recipes, please. I have a small bag of yukon gold that will form the base of my next 5 dinners, but I have no idea what to do with them. (Two caveats: no cheese, please. And if the recipe includes the phrase "move the potatoes from the double boiler to the chafing dish," you've lost me. Twice ( Read more... ) -
Trash/Treasure
True to my word, last night I went over the video shelves and got rid of all the commercial titles that were available via Netflix streaming...except the X-Files. Which take up a whole shelf. GAH ( Read more... ) -
utter defeat
Not exactly the optimistic note I had hoped to strike for the second day of the new year. I am utterly defeated by my books and videos. There's just nothing left to throw away. Or, rather, the remaining books are either read regularly or read only occasionally but I want to know they're there, waiting for me. I have four shelves' worth of books on ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
And welcome to 2011: The Year of Recovery. (Hang in there. 2013 is going to be the year of living dangerously, so there's fun times ahead.)
Resolutions: Read more fiction and narrative non-fiction. Either max my retirement contributions or start an investment account outside my 403(b). -
I have a knick-knack problem
My holiday week has been characterized by small bursts of cleaning surrounded by huge pockets of lazing about. I've finally disposed of the old PC after ripping out the drive, which is destined for physical destruction. I vowed to be ruthless in cleaning out my college texts, which occupy 4 shelves in my living room. I...failed. I had no problem ( Read more... ) -
media moment
Amazon had a Black Friday-Cyber Monday promotional offer of $3 credit at their mp3 store...which I should have mentioned earlier. My bad. But you're probably all set for music. Me, I still have more cassettes from the 80s than CDs, and almost all of my mp3s are ripped from my cd collection. So, given just enough credit to download 3 songs, I chose ( Read more... ) -
welcome to bramageddon
Gah! If I don't post NOW, I won't have a post for August and I'll have broken my New Year's resolution. So here are the bullet points ( Read more... ) -
Rain, rain, llamas and rain
This past weekend, spacealien_vamp and I visited Mendocino. I've never been before, and I have to admit that I would never have proposed the location because, on the face of it, there's "nothing" to do there. There are wineries and galleries and vegetarian restaurants (and extreeeeeme vegetarian restaurants) and dogs and a profound love of California flora, but ( Read more... ) -
this could have been an email
sara_tanaquil, have you moved to YNAB 3? They're trying to sell me on the upgrade, and they're doing a very poor job of it (dudes, tell me why it's better), so I thought I would ask if you had tried it.
Also...you haven't posted since February. And/or you're posting under seekrit lock (HEY!). And/or you've moved to dreamwidth (DOUBLE HEY!).[Insert endless ( Read more... ) -
this is where the subject goes
I'm just going to link spacealien_vamp's entry on our trip down to Monterey and Pacific Grove this weekend. The only details I have to add are ( Read more... )