Just thought I'd mention, that tonight for the second time in a row attempting it, I made a white sauce gravy (flour, water, milk, salt, pepper), and some ground turkey, to be poured over bread for the main course of dinner, without burning either pan I used--we're talking stainless-steel (copper-bottom) pans that wash out in less than a minute ( Read more... )

So here I was, earlier today, sitting at my computer at home (trying to get over being sick), working for the company (because what else would I be doing on a Wednesday? I wasn't that sick)... and I decided I needed my music. I often listen to Yahoo LAUNCHcast because it pretty consistently plays what I like to listen to (on "my station") in ( Read more... )

Now in the past: one essentially perfect weekend. I keep reliving all the little moments. It was so short, yet packed full of nice, brief experiences; put them all together and it was amazing, and pretty much exactly how I wanted it. The drive to and home from the cruise ship terminal with two hours of no real traffic problems each way. The ( Read more... )

So for anybody that doesn't know, this may come as a surprise to you considering that some of my writings may have seemed to reflect a Christian belief, but I don't celebrate Christmas. I could get into the reasons in more detail, but I'll just summarize and say that Christmas really doesn't have a lot to do with the facts of the Bible (even ( Read more... )

For one reason or another, I have decided it would be good to know. I'm starting with the finger-spelling alphabet. I don't know if I will ever learn more than that, but just to learn that much seems very useful. I should have it learned pretty well by the end of the evening. I'm using a quiz-practice program which I found on the Internet for ( Read more... )

As most of you know, I've developed an interest in creating sheet music. I've been doing it professionally for Vienna Teng now for a couple years (although only 3 songs have been published, I'm hopefully that more will be published eventually, when I get time to finish them, she gets time to edit them, and she convinces her management to front the ( Read more... )

So I was watching CBS's "How I Met Your Mother" last night; I think it was the season finale episode. Anyway, Marshall and Lily are having an argument, and they have this rule where they can pause their arguments whenever they want, for example if they need to do something else, like, say, talk to friends about an unrelated subject, or use the ( Read more... )

I thought I'd share some thoughts which were originally an excerpt of an e-mail I wrote, but have now been heavily edited, with some context added. (I think the original recipient of the e-mail won't mind, since I'm leaving out all the personal parts. :))

Tonight, along with many other ethnic or spiritual Jews, I celebrated a commemoration of a ( Read more... )

Whole Foods Market's "Organic Whole Grain Burger Bun"s... are in fact far too flavorful and dense to be used with burgers. Obviously I tried this, and it was less than ideal. The whole wheat bread flavor is quite strong, and overpowers the burger, and the bun is chewy. Also, they are not even cut in half, so to eat them around a burger one has ( Read more... )

Sometimes the most significant truths are discovered through communication consisting of more than just words. I danced, tonight, at various times, opposite a half dozen strangers. We learned some fancy footwork, and then a short, complicated, difficult and fun routine, which I picked up rather well. But then as a finish to practicing that ( Read more... )