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Bicycle memories

  • February 16th, 2011
  • Posted in General

My father was a strict, self-disciplined man. He went to bed at 9 pm every evening to get up at god knows what hour for the hour-long commute to his job in downtown Houston. He rarely took a sick day, and he definitely never took a “mental health” day. Somehow it’s his rigid work schedule [ READ MORE ]

More Tortillas with Fajitas!

  • November 3rd, 2010
  • Posted in General

At the recent Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear, many worthy causes were represented and promoted. There is one that stands out above the others, not because it is most important, but because it’s actually achievable. It’s a movement started by a visionary, the push for restaurants to give enough tortillas with fajitas. Typically, restaurants supply three [ READ MORE ]

Yarn As Decoration

  • October 12th, 2010
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We bought new shelves last weekend for the living room, a necessity in light of the considerable mess of yarn, books, and other assorted knitting paraphernalia lying about downstairs. The lovely arrangement of yarn and knitting shown here is deceptive, as if this was all there was. Not pictured is the bin full of crap, [ READ MORE ]

5 Things We Could Learn From Dogs

  • October 8th, 2010
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1. Be interested. Dogs are naturally curious about almost everything, they want to see what you’re doing and get involved in it. Emulate that when dealing with others, take an interest in them and whatever they’re doing or talking about (people love that). 2. Be social. Dogs have a social creatures, they very much want [ READ MORE ]

Breakthrough in Bee Colony Collapse Mystery

I just wrote a blog post about colony collapse disorder a couple of weeks ago and now they’re announcing a breakthrough on solving the mystery! See how much I helped? (Oh shut up and let me have my little fantasy.) Apparently there is a connection between a fungus and a virus causing colony collapse, and [ READ MORE ]

Is this avant-garde-good or really horrible?

  • September 1st, 2010
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I saw this odd new tunic pattern at Lionbrand this morning: I can’t decide if it’s Pucci-cool or seriously awful. I think it could look cool on a runway, but it’ll never work in real life. It seems to have a little fuzzy halo going, too, which, again, never work [ READ MORE ]

Blogathon!

  • August 28th, 2010
  • Posted in General

Blogathon is happening today in Austin! I’m volunteering and scored the cool job of picking up the breakfast tacos from Torchy’s Tacos. Then it got even better when I was sent to pick up the cupcakes. It’s always fun to be the person bringing the food, everyone is happy to see you. Just to keep [ READ MORE ]

Beer Grain Rolls (and Peaches)

  • August 1st, 2010
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Since Brian has been brewing beer, I’ve been experimenting with using the spent grain from the brewing process to make bread. No, it’s not alcoholic, this is just from the brewing process before fermentation. Since the grains have been cooked they don’t have a lot of nutritional value, but they do have a lot of [ READ MORE ]

Hello World!

I just downloaded the WordPress app for iPad, this is just my hello world post to test it out. It’s got some problems, you have to manually add tags to bold or italicize text, but eh, it’s a free app. Since I didn’t plan ahead and have relevant photos to test with, I’ll attempt to [ READ MORE ]

Gah, stupid landscaping

  • June 13th, 2010
  • Posted in General

Didn’t I say at the end of my previous post that I’m in no hurry to finish the landscaping? Well I lied, I want the whole freaking project done, I’m sick of the bare-dirt look around there. The hard part now is figuring out exactly what to do, though. I did fix some of the [ READ MORE ]

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