Sillybean
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Ice cream
I’ve been making a lot of ice cream lately. Thanks to my friend Shaima, I’ve become a fan of David Lebovitz’s blog, and when the weather turned hot I finally broke down and bought his ice cream cookbook.
Holy crap, y’all. This man knows how to make ice cream.
So far we’ve made vanilla, chocolate, chocolate [...]
Five years later…
… he’s not sick of me yet. I think I’ll keep him.
If only every day could be like today…
Woke up with half a story in my head, and snoozed a bit until I’d mentally finished it. Got up, wrote about 2K — not done, but enough to leave it alone for a while. Went to the library. Did a little web work. Went for a run. Read a little while cooling down, then [...]
“It’s fixed.”
This has happened a lot lately.
One of my users reports a problem. Some time later, I get an email from the IT staff saying “It’s fixed!”
Except the person who originally had the problem still can’t do whatever it was they were trying to do.
Look, tech support workers of the world:
If you fixed it, but you [...]
Because it ought to go without saying, but doesn’t…
I have been reading, and listening, and learning from the enormous shit-flinging clusterfuck of a flame war known as RaceFail ‘091 on LiveJournal… but I have been mostly not participating. I didn’t feel that I had anything useful to contribute, and that my participation would merely add to the general level of ignorance and failure [...]
Nowhere near the helicopter
People are asking, so I’ll just reassure everyone that I was nowhere near the helicopter crash on campus today, nor was anyone else you’re probably acquainted with if you know me in real life. We’re fine.
Virtual Christmas cookies for you
For you, my imaginary invisible internet friends, here’s the virtual version of the holiday treats I gave out this year:
Chocolate chocolate chip cookies with dried cherries
Citrus Bars
Shortbread Sandwich Cookies(with tart cherry, red plum, and raspberry)
Cheesecake Brownies
IMO, it’s the two chocolate recipes that get the gold stars, but the sandwich cookies have been surprisingly popular at [...]
Snow!
The weather service predicted snow overnight. Having been out to lunch in uncomfortably humid, mid-70s sunshine yesterday, I did not entirely believe them. Then the wind started whistling around the house.
Behold, what I woke up to:
Actual fluffy flakes rather than the usual coating of solid ice we usually get in winter! Awesome.
Which seems as good [...]
Ouch.
XKCD on relationships with insecure men, with devastating accuracy.
In other “ouch” news, I’ve had a low-level migraine for about a month. Time to locate the neurologist’s phone number, methinks.
Gifts for Writers
When people who do not write try to buy gifts for writers, they often get it wrong.
Books
Specific books — things you think your writer might enjoy — a bad choice in most cases. We’re picky as hell. We have piles of books we intend to read that we haven’t gotten around to. We also have [...]
Miles and Miles and Miles
The reason I haven’t posted in a couple weeks? After kicking the cold I came home with, I started physical therapy for my ongoing neck and shoulder problems. (Turns out the muscles in my back are knotted up like strands of pearls. Not good.) The therapy is working, but it hurts to type afterward. And [...]
Back from HighEdWeb ‘08
I’ve just returned from HighEdWeb ‘08. I came down with a cold the day I left and am just now starting to feel normal, so I was way less bouncy than usual and didn’t attend much of the after-hours stuff. Still had a great time, though.
If you’ve been following my Twitter stream, I imagine [...]
Bye, Ike.
Well, that was dizzyingly anticlimactic. We did get a lot of wind and rain, enough to blow down tree branches and fences all over the neighborhood, though none of ours. We never even lost power, and have been comfortably holed up doing homework (him), cooking (me), watching CNN (both) and bad Sci-Fi Channel movies (him), [...]
Hello, Ike.
Getting very windy out there. We spent the morning stocking up on stuff — although we still had the water and stuff we bought when it looked like Gustav was coming this way — and bringing everything inside. All that’s left on the back porch is the grill (too big) and the plants (too many). [...]
