Archive for August, 2009

Let’s hear it for physics!

Friday, August 21st, 2009

:echoes: Hoooooraaaaaaaayyyy, physics!
http://www.acetj.com/videos/player.php?mediaID=3045l
I am also quite pleased that I managed to reason out what I needed to do to my trusty Dremel tool to make it work. Considering I haven’t changed the thingie on it in a couple of years and the collet was missing, I was fairly impressed with myself.
In other news, […]

Smugness

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

As I told Grandma, I’m feeling very smug and self-satisfied today.
I needed something to hold cones of yarn while I work with them, because they can get knocked over and kicked about, and they fall off the couch and the yarns get all tangled up. So I designed something in my head that would hold […]

“Julie & Julia”

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Went to see this with a friend today and I highly recommend it. Very funny, heartwarming, and will make you so hungry you rush home to make a beurre blanc, or maybe just to the nearest patisserie.
Reviewers have complained about the intertwining of the two stories—one of Julia Child, the other of a young woman […]

Triskaidekaphobe’s bane

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Stone’s 13th Anniversary. That’ll knock the pins out from under ‘em!
Whilst slogging through 22 oz. of that stuff, I had to address The Lycra Problem. I came into a kilo of cobweb-sized Lycra (r) for use with memory-free fibers, such as the llama/silk blend I’m working with at present. Since, when they stretch out of […]

Dinnertime!

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

After the dog PT, watering and coddling the garden, and wiping off the sweat, I am having for dinner a huge salad of
Kale (2 kinds)
Swiss chard
Lettuce
Beet greens
Snow peas
Sugar-snap peas
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Carrots
Boiled egg
Cheddar cheese, and both last and least (in quantity),
Cashews
Of all of that, only the last four did not come from my tiny garden that other people […]