Ingredients

• 3 tbs vegetable oil
• 6 cloves garlic, mashed or minced
• 3/4 pound pork tenderloin, cut into thin medallions
• 2 tbs Thai fish sauce
• 4 tbs golden brown sugar

Fucking Group Health.

So, my employer switched from Regence Blue Shield (good insurance) to Group Health (shitty insurance).

Because I want to keep my current doctors and pharmacy, I elected the Group Health PPO. So I go to Bartell Drugs to switch over, and while they show that they're covered under the plan, my medication is rejected.

I called the ( Read more... )

Well, kinda.

Last Wednesday, November 4th, I was told my last day here at Real is March 31st, 2016.

So, I'm brushing off my resume, and open to offers, but not super frenzied yet.

I've updated my resume and resume page, but I still have a lot of work to do on them. It's been a long time since I needed to find a job.

I mostly program in Ruby, Perl and ( Read more... )

Monday morning, I hurt my back. My upper back, and not too badly; I've hurt it worse in the past.

It was my own fault. I tried to put a shirt on. If you're going to do such a hedonistically irresponsible thing in the morning, I suppose you have to expect the occasional pulled back or broken neck.

Having hurt my back before, I have a set of back ( Read more... )

What is the next number in this sequence?

12, 5, 32, 4, ?
Here are the rules:

• 4 follows 32
• 5 follows 12
• 9 follows 4
• 12 follows 9
• 32 follows 5

Julie's book is out!

Waking Up Naked in Strange Places (Tales of the Rougarou Book 1)

To get a recent version of Ruby running under Debian stable, you have to install it yourself. Well, not quite yourself, there's a very handy system called the Ruby Version Manager (RVM) to help you out.

I set up a "ruby" user, and install RVM and Ruby under that user. Then I create a short shell script "/usr/local/bin/ruby":

#!/bin/bash ( Read more... )

So, I got an Ooma a few years ago for two reasons:

• So I could have the cheap equivalent of a landline
• So I could get a secondary Bellingham number, so my parents could call me for free from their actual landline

It worked all right for the first, but not great -- it regularly drops calls. Now, my connection isn't great, but I recently got a Republic ( Read more... )

So yesterday, on the way home, I walked by the stadiums as usual and several of the hotdog vendors were open. I knew there wasn't a Mariners game that evening, so I figured there must be some other event going on. Then I saw the sign.

Welcome to the Health and Fitness Expo.

I first encountered John Kendrick Bangs when I worked in my father's book store. One of the rare books that he had was a copy of A House-Boat on the Styx. I enjoyed it immensely, though I certainly didn't understand all of it.

The Associated Shades is a Gentleman's Society of the shades of famous historical (and occasionally fictional) people. ( Read more... )