Because, why not.
Using this recipe, because a blog post got me in the mood (of course). It was labor-intensive, but very cool to watch the batter rise up with the action of REAL LIVE YEASTS. Also, I must say any recipe that requires the use of a food thermometer is pleasing to me.
Also, in [...]
My latest obsession - spawned by an ad on CL that didn’t even pan out - is raising some hens in my backyard as egg-layers. Where did that come from!?
So I did a lot of reading into coops, and nest boxes, and tractors (not the tractory kind, the mobile chicken box kind) and [...]
it’s been months, it’s like I have limited energy for creative output and lately instead of writing I’ve been doing a lot more photography. Really delving into the technical sides of it and understanding the why of techniques. It’s been fun, after branching into more sports type photography, I got called upon to take portraits [...]
Just because I finally managed to figure out when my current 2 year cell phone contract is up:
My contract is up on July 2, 2009. Early cancellation is $175. No pro-rating available. Grrrr.
Sigh - I had been hoping it was June, but was off by a month. And maybe it’s because it’s been so unseasonably [...]
Whatever, I felt like doing some selective desaturation. DON’T JUDGE ME.
Tired of themes that don’t do what I want, but the css and 50 pages are so overwhelming to try and edit! I’m not a huge fan of the twin bars of color down the left and right though, so white on white it is. [...]
Wait, seriously? I managed to only spend half of my long weekend ODing on wow, amazingly enough. Sunday I headed out into the Jemez to stalk some wild aspens. Sadly I jacked up a setting on my camera and overexposed half my pictures by 2 stops but still got a good number. I went driving [...]
I got a raise at work this week! Our fiscal year ends Sep 30, so there’s been the usual flurry of omg spend money omg we’re out of money omg performance reviews. Somehow I manage to convince people that I’m useful and ended up 3.5 + 4 = 7.5 from the two appraisals (don’t ask) [...]
I actually managed to get up at 4:30 am on a Saturday (!) to drive to Albuquerque for the Balloon Fiesta, which was somewhat amazing in of itself (with a lovely wakeup call to make sure I was actually out of bed ). Drove though the Jemez, which at 5am means I was traveling [...]
And now, a moment of complete unabashed joy in life, to get me through the rest of this Monday:
OMG GRASS AND SUNLIGHT! /squeeeee
Also in the yay! department: I forgot to mention it, but on Wednesday I only took one of the 2 painkillers and made it through the day, though still with a lot of [...]
Only got through a few pictures from the early morning before the mushroom tour started! It was a really fun day, though. I dined on chanterelles! At 9am, the caldera was still totally full of the fog that always appears after an overnight rain.