Month: January 2003
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Buck Creek Barbecue Sauce. Hee! (Some explanation: Buck Creek is the “name” of this crazy property near my aunt’s house in Indiana. The people on it, like, lived in a teepee and had an Indian canoe out front, except they weren’t Native Americans. And they had lots of signs with Bible sayings on them. For…
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The second installment (“The Subtle Knife”) of the His Dark Materials radio show has been posted. I listened to it at work today and I liked it a lot better than the first one. My only complaint was that the guy that plays Stanislaus Grumman (aka John Parry) sounds a lot like Terence Stamp, so…
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Funky Hat: Last week I figured it was time to try something new with the knitting, so I settled on this funky (yet easy) hat. It’s easy because you don’t do any increasing or decreasing; you just basically knit a tube with a circular needle and then close off the top (like a square). Then…
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New poll: Yeah, I’m still bitter.
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abulia: abnormal lack of ability to act or to make decisions Once again the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day provides an eerily accurate analysis of my current mental state.
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Tonight’s accomplishment: all three pieces of sushi in my bento box, along with a mouthful of baby octopus courtesy of the Snook. It was good. I think that it’s helped that I’ve been at least partially drunk during each of these gastronomic experiments.
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Pat Rafter has formally retired from professional tennis. (Yeah, I thought he retired last year too, but apparently he was just taking time off to think about it.) My sister will be sad. The photo gallery accompanying that story should cheer her up though. She once spent, like, a whole summer Photoshopping herself into photos…
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Our Lovely Bones discussion just never ends. Some of you might want to revisit it to answer points that random visitors have brought up.
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Friday Five: 1. Where are you right now?Sitting in front of my computer in our upstairs office. 2. What time is it?9:15 am. I just got up. Luckily the office is only a quick stumble across the hall from the bedroom. 3. What are you wearing?Comfy brown corduroys that – thanks to the diet –…