So on August 1st, I lost my job. Laid off. The upside is that I’ve already landed a replacement gig elsewhere and I’m excited about the opportunity. So here I am. Waiting for my start date on the 29th. So I guess this means I’m on sabbatical for a bit, and that I need to … Read more
I originally left this in a comment on Gloria Liu’s blog. Scars are trophies of a life well-lived. It’s no different than a book with dog-eared pages, really — there’s a certain degree of love and respect for material things (bodies included) that results in a bit of damage-by-familiarity. Those little imperfections, the same things … Read more
Jumping back to old Livejournal memes, this one is from April of 2006. It’s rather unoriginal/uninspired — answer the questions from Inside the Actor’s Studio.
Because everyone loves this stuff, I feel like I should lay out my least favorite flavors of La Croix: Mayonnaise Cat Food Whatever that flower is that smells like a corpse when it blooms Pickles Bat/Coronavirus
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s been awhile. A long while. I need to get better about posting here, and I need to get my 2018 Reading Review post done, which is a task I’m hoping to tackle this weekend. In the meantime, here’s a brief update going over what’s been happening.
This blog is supposed to be focused on tinkering/making/hacking stuff. So why am I posting another chili recipe? Well, mainly because I can’t stop tinkering — every time I try a recipe, I mess with it a bit. My Unholy Good Chili recipe started fairly simple and grew over many iterations into a burn-the-hair-off-your-feet monstrosity. It wasn’t something I wanted to cook up for the Birchwood Bike Team Superbowl Party, as I wanted something more mild. So I found a different recipe, and scribbled it down. Then I edited the hell out of it to formulate my own take on it. I’d say about 60% of the original recipe remains, if that.
Going to try to be more on-the-spot with these posts in 2018. In 2017, I was busy pretty much constantly and unfortunately, some of the tinkering fell by the wayside. So let’s chitchat about what went down in January of 2018, and what my nerdy goals for 2018 are.
So this is one of those things that I try to do annually — same questions and everything. Here’s my 2017 year in review…
Today’s accomplishments: Fed, dressed, and delivered kids to school. Did dishes. Took out trash/recycling. Load of laundry. Worked on personal consulting site. Had grueling two-hour nap. Signed up for Khan Academy, started working through the “Pixar in a Box” series on storytelling. Gave “Grand Tour” a look on Amazon — watched the first episode. Soaked … Read more
