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| Monday, January 2nd, 2012 | |
| 10:19 pm | belated trip report I saw that meme about places one has slept in 2011, and instead of giving the rather short and mostly uninteresting list, I figured I'd finally post my pictures and story of going camping in Ipswich this past September. I tend to pick up sporting-ish hobbies and discard them without accomplishing a whole lot; this is partly because I am competitive by nature, but not actually very athletic, and partly because I am lazy. But I've wanted to go canoe camping for a long time, and finally managed to do so on our honeymoon. That was fun, so I wanted to do it again, and also was going boating a bunch with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small} saxifrage so I idly started looking at canoes. One of the ones I liked best showed up used on Craigslist, and suddenly I had a boat. So after a few paddles, I booked a night on Perkins Island on the Ipswich River, in the middle of the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary. And this is where the picspam commences, so ( follow me behind the cut for more ) Next summer: as I said above, if anyone wants me to lead a group overnight on Perkins Island, I'd be happy to. It'd be kid-friendly and novice-friendly -- we wouldn't have to start as far upstream as I did, which would avoid any possibility of dealing with downed trees. And then I'm going to take my boat up to Maine and do a longer trip. This entry was originally posted at http://antimony.dreamwidth.org/350.html. Please comment wherever you prefer. Current Mood:  accomplished |
| Friday, November 25th, 2011 | |
| 9:35 pm | thanksgiving: the tl;dr recipes edition, part 1 Okay, so some new recipes, with additions/comments! New recipes: ( Chestnut-Mushroom Stuffing ) ( Goat Cheese Cheesecake ) Cranberry sauce was simple and an amalgam of recipes: the only note is that 2 12oz bags of cranberries take way longer to deal with 2 cups of liquid than recipes state; use less. Spicing was about right -- 10 cardamom pods, 20 cloves, 1 long cinnamon stick, 20 peppercorns, 5 allspice berries or so, in a tea bell. |
| Thursday, November 24th, 2011 | |
| 10:25 pm | another thanksgiving that couldn't be beat I will put up recipes later, but that went very well! We hosted both my parents and dphilli1's, which always is a little nervewracking as the families have sort of different styles for holidays and I don't want anyone to feel let down. Which basically translates to worrying about having ridiculous quantities of food (my families' hospitality gold standard) and having beautiful presentation (his). Though I did forget to find time to go change out of jeans and a shirt, whoops, and didn't realize that until after dinner. The table was gorgeous, though. Current Mood:  full |
| Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | |
| 9:46 pm | whiskey review: bulleit rye So there was this high-rye bourbon I picked up one day at Downtown Liquors, after convincing the clerk that I didn't really want smooth uber alles. That was Bulleit, and it pretty much instantly became my favorite bourbon. (Unseating nothing, as I hadn't really found one in that price range I liked more than any other, nor any more expensive ones.) A little rough, in an intentional way, spicy, whatever. When I saw they had a rye out, I bought it. Apparently they went to the other end of the spectrum on this one. Smelling it, if I didn't know from the label that it's 95% rye and 5% barley mash, I'd say it was a bourbon in there. Sugar and caramel and more sugar. Pretty color -- a nice ruddy amber. As for the flavor -- sure, it's got some spice -- if it didn't, I'd wonder how, but it doesn't stick around. A hit of cinnamon-and-rye and a little flash of heat from the alcohol and then it's gone, leaving that sugar and caramel behind. A few drops of water brought some smoke out of hiding, but nothing else. Meh. I'm sure it'll mix nicely, if I just go easy on the sweet things, but I'm unimpressed. ETA: Locking comments as this post has become spammerbait; if you want to chat whiskey, I'm sure I'll post again about it sooner or later. |
| Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 | |
| 3:45 pm | This is really dumb, but anyone know how to get oneself listed in the phone book around here? We just got a new copy of what appears to be the proper white/yellow pages for Medford, and I was reminded AGAIN that I've never managed to get myself listed. dphilli1 is, but I'm not, and that's kind of annoying.Yes, I know. Landlines are so twentieth-century, but we have one. I can't find a damn thing about it on Meffa's site, and the url on the phone books only gives a form for advertisers. |
| Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 | |
| 6:39 pm | air gripes that, for once, do not involve the TSA I am seriously about done with this whole idea of air travel. It's come to be that every single trip I pick up at least one cold, either coming or going. NOT OKAY, WORLD. Car travel? No problem. Trains? Greyhounds? Not enough data from recent years; I'm not sure if my immune system was more planeproof when I was younger or if I completely failed to notice the effect. In other news, zzzzzzz. My life is so exciting. Current Mood:  drained |
| Monday, September 6th, 2010 | |
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| Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 | |
| 11:18 pm | why yes, I am easily amused There will never be a point where the sort of things trying to google for LaTeX info brings up will not be funny. There really ought to be a nice searchable index of classes people have already written. Some of us are LAAAAAZY. Current Mood:  sleepy |
| Monday, May 17th, 2010 | |
| 7:48 pm | probably a stupid question, but... ...I know there's a bunch of folks with body jewelry on my friendslist. How the heck do you get captured ball earrings in? Or captured coil ones. I got my second holes redone, and to keep them from closing up this time I got a bunch of things I figured I could sleep in. Well, except that two of the pairs are actually too small, because I mistook diameter and radius and have a couple of teeny tiny loops smaller around than my ears are thick. But I do have some that fit. Except I can't get them closed once the hoops are in my ears. Ow. At least these piercings appear to have healed well, since they haven't started bleeding and I've been shoving them around for the past twenty minutes. Right now I've got the captured coil loops in without the coils, just letting them rest. Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | |
| 10:59 pm | privacy on the internet? Okay, another major provider has done something failworthy. AIM is now logging people's status updates and displaying them twitter-style. And by default, it's PUBLIC. Go here to turn it off: http://lifestream.aim.com/settings Argh. It also shows things like last-friended-by which is annoying as AIM hasn't done that -- you could add people and not feel like a stalker or that you needed to ask permission or whatever. Current Mood: annoyed |
| Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 | |
| 10:51 pm | Recipes that people might want! ( phyllo kale vegan triangles, the ones I made last summer )( Pudding cake ) |
| Monday, January 18th, 2010 | |
| 1:36 pm | mystery hunt, also, invitation reminder Mystery hunt was awesome again. Hopefully the Halibut folks had fun too -- for all that we were just down the hall, I have no idea if you guys had a good hunt. And I got to meet doctorskuld, if only for a drive-by hug. I also just added a couple of folks from II&F to my friendslist because hey, I know you! If you dislike this, let me know. Also, we are having two shindigs, and if you can see this, you should come. (Yes, I know this post is not locked. That would be the point.) First, this Saturday, Jan 23, starting at 6pm -- Rye and Applejack tasting. There will be booze and food; if you want to bring more it will be appreciated but not required. Then, Sunday, Feb 07, starting at 4pm (kickoff is ~6:30), Superbowl! If you don't know where we live, ask! RSVPs would be helpful for correct food quantity determinations. EDIT: We have two cats. They do go everywhere in the house. Our apologies for those whom this is prohibitive. Current Mood:  amused |
| Saturday, January 9th, 2010 | |
| 7:35 pm | wedding planning: fringe benefits? We have a fridge full of cake and wine for tasting purposes. This is apparently the fun, non-stressful part of wedding planning. Although how that balances with the ridiculous pressure to lose weight, I don't know. Oh well. I am tipsy enough I just had to edit that first sentence so it didn't say "a cake full of fridges", whee! (Danish Pastry House, Gordon's Liquors, for those who might care.) Current Mood:  tipsy |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | |
| 5:30 pm | food! For future reference, thanksgiving dinner experiments: ( Maple Pecan Pie ) ( Sweet Potato and Parsnip Gnocchi ) Not sure how these came out as have not eaten them yet; just recording amounts from winging it. ETA for verdict: Maple-Pecan pie good -- slightly less sickeningly sweet than the usual recipe, maple flavor present but not super strong. Sweet Potato gnocchi = perfect in the chewy sense that I like. Parsnip gnocchi light and fluffy and likely closer to the platonic ideal, but I like 'em chewier. More flour would probably fix that -- the roasted parsnips & russets were quite dry and didn't need much flour compared to the sweet potatoes. Current Mood:  chipper |
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | |
| 2:04 pm | lol rain Bullet points as see #2. 1. I *heart* my chiropractor -- I'd forgotten what it felt like to have full range of motion in my neck and have it not hurt. Whee! I'd been just about to give up on chiropractic fixing it, too -- all the other times had made it feel a little better but after a day or two it was same-old-same-old. Dunno if she did something different this time or if it was just cumulative improvement, but yay! 2. Between work, work on the house, and wedding planning, I have no time, and no brain. Sorry 'bout that, to all the folks whose events I've not attended and blogposts I haven't replied to etc, etc. 3. It's really raining out there. I'm on wifi at the Arlington Panera, doing my best drowned rat impression. (And am about to close the 'puter and play video games because I need to chill.) 4. Thanks to eustaciavye for using the Horizons salon all those years ago -- it made figuring out what to do for hair/makeup for my wedding a much less painful process. Current Mood:  drenched |
| Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | |
| 12:39 pm | MBTA: don't do that again plz? http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac I'm pretty sure I was on the eastbound half of that last night. Well, okay, the next time they say they're having signal problems and proceeding slowly, I might even believe them. (The reason I'm pretty sure: I'd gotten up to stand in the aisle because I was hoping we'd pull into Back Bay only late-enough that I'd be able to catch the 6:35 bus home -- I'd mostly given up on that at the point we stopped inching along and came to a sudden screeching halt. And then I could see what looked like a train headlight through the front window several cars up and went WTF was that a near miss? And I guess it was.) |
| Monday, September 7th, 2009 | |
| 4:27 pm | for the boston contingent One: what do folks call the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, here? Wikipedia has told me that what I grew up calling it (tree lawn) is a very localized regionalism, which explains the blank looks from garden-store personnel. But wiki failed to tell me what you *do* call it up here. Two: anyone without house pets want a very pretty peace lily? I'd misremembered which things were/weren't toxic and they were on sale and gorgeous. And highly toxic to cats, so it's been exiled to the porch. We spent $15 on it but anyone who wants it can just have it. |
| Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | |
| 7:36 pm | scenes from daily life Me: Why is there a street sweeper bristle in the dish drainer? David: Because it was dirty! Current Mood:  tipsy |
| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | |
| 3:03 pm | the walls were shaking / the earth was quaking Jackhammers running *inside* the house you are in is a strange sensation. (Nothing to worry about; basement renovations.) Current Mood: amused |
| Sunday, July 26th, 2009 | |
| 1:56 am | blogging is a spectator sport list of links to instant rimshot etc, for the blogathon peeps: http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/instan also, quotes: "the one where I hate all the characters" "...Medea, or Wuthering Heights?" some_kitten and tikva....it was funnier in context. not that that isn't always the case with these things. |
