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June 13, 2010
Sunday: Music All the Way Through
The day started off as usual (alarm goes off at 6 am. Bleh.) At 7, I was on the road to the city, and then rehearsal, where I discovered that we had only three sops and three altos and one bass, two baritones, and four tenors, including the soloist for the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "Amazing Grace" (Offertory anthem) and Randall Thompson's "Alleluia." One of the other altos was the paid one (thank heavens.) We did pretty well. Then came breakfast in the parish hall. By the second r...
June 12, 2010
In the Kitchen
M- decided to spend the weekend with us, and I asked R- to pick up some chicken thighs on the way back from the city to get him. I wanted to try out my new All-Clad sautee pan. These were the biggest chicken thighs I have ever seen--monster thighs. So this morning I fired up the new sautee pan with a bit of oil in it, and after a bit of discovery (modern chickens also have more fat, so less oil is needed to start with...) I had lightly browned chicken thighs, sauteed onions and...
From Twitter 06-11-2010
13:13:08: RT @kaysea14: RT @tpmmedia Back To The Future: Boehner's Recipe For Recovery Same As Bush's | TPMDC http://bit.ly/dfx3L9
14:21:55: I SO did not need another time-taking toy to play with but...this little GPS is kinda fun.
17:17:36: Austin's getting a Formula 1 track so we can have lots more traffic, noise, and air pollution. Whoopee (NOT.)
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June 11, 2010
The Other Cartographer
On the one hand, Writer-Cartographer has been and is still working on the maps for the next book in this series.
On the other, Naturalist-Cartographer just acquired a GPS to define locations where something was found or photographed. To practice, I went out back and marked some spots where I know I'm likely to take pictures...and found the chaste tree in bloom, and a cloud of Fiery Skippers, Hylephila phyleus, around it and some nectaring on the flowers.
I could even tell you exactly (as...
On the other, Naturalist-Cartographer just acquired a GPS to define locations where something was found or photographed. To practice, I went out back and marked some spots where I know I'm likely to take pictures...and found the chaste tree in bloom, and a cloud of Fiery Skippers, Hylephila phyleus, around it and some nectaring on the flowers.
I could even tell you exactly (as...
From Twitter 06-10-2010
15:38:23: RT @kaysea14: Former Bush Official Josh Bolten Advising BP On How To 'Defend Its Interests' And Restore Its Reputation http://twurl.nl/o ...
15:38:57: RT @kaysea14: Atrios says: It's important to remember that a big contributor to the current deficit is... the recession. http://twurl.nl ...
15:41:58: 2800 words on III. Surprising words. He's going to do WHAT? With WHOM? Also young fellow w/foot-in-mouth disease may learn caution.
15:42:44: I so love it when the writing suddenly...
June 10, 2010
The Consuming Passion: Pots & Mapping
Another All-Clad pot was inevitable. OK, not inevitable, but irresistible. This one is the 2 quart straight-sided saute pan, with lid. The 4 quart was nice, but...heavier. Much. Or it felt like much to me. So I went for the 2 quart. The interior diameter is a little less than the big iron frying pan, but still plenty large enough for what I often want to brown but don't want to have to hold (or clean out) the big old iron one.
The citrus squeezer thingie, maybe not so inevitable...
The citrus squeezer thingie, maybe not so inevitable...
From Twitter 06-09-2010
09:22:11: RT @ZooBorns: Chicago's newest Zebra Foal debuts - http://bit.ly/ceZPCw
12:34:40: RT @robinmckinley: HA. Rude noises at the purblind nay-sayers. @newscientist Children of lesbian parents do better than their peers ht ...
22:23:17: Onions, mushrooms, bacon, Red Leicester cheese, merlot, pinot noir, 2 big cans of Ro-tel: major cooking will occur in next few days.
22:24:33: Choir practice was intense. I CAN'T sight read Baroque anything like that fast. Can get either the Latin or the...
June 9, 2010
From Twitter 06-08-2010
15:57:18: 2200 words of story just rolled out of my brain into the computer.
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June 8, 2010
From Twitter 06-07-2010
07:39:59: New stew--ground venison, Ro-tel, fire-roasted peppers, mushrooms, black beans, and--for fun--some chopped stuffed green olives. GOOD!
07:41:09: Out of red wine for cooking, though. Forgot to get on last grocery trip. Blackstone's pinot noir excellent for this.
11:58:36: AC compressor fan motor is gorked. Guess the temperature. Glad we called repair people.
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June 7, 2010
Things Jesus Did Not Say: part one
From teaching a high-school Sunday School class, and listening to radio and TV preachers and some of their followers, I learned some years back that a lot of people think Jesus said things Jesus never said. And as a result, both people who consider themselves Christians, and those who know they're not Christians, can have a very distorted view of what Jesus actually said, and what Christians (defined here as "those who intentionally try to do what Jesus told his followers to do) actually b...
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