weaktwos

Today involved miscelaneous housechores, a hair appointment, grocery aquisition, and baking.

I acquired a Bluetooth GPS Logger to play with. It makes it quite easy to log my movements and overlay that data onto Google Earth.

I logged my mundane driving path today. Here's what it looked like.

taogrl, remember how we talked about doing walking tours? This can track our route. There's other neat things you can do, like add point of interest pictures. Fun stuff.

Kermit Roosevelt's Counter Coup is an interesting story on the behind the scenes skirmish to maintain British Oil interests and gain US Oil Interests in Iran in the 1950s. More on that later.

Anyone care for a Pownce Invite? I have 6 to share. ariedana graciously sent me an invite this morning.

I awoke this morning to a slightly raw throat. The one someone gets with excessive post nasal drainage. I'm feeling a bit wrong in the sinuses, with an unsavory runny nose to boot.

So, it's time to drop some Airborne, and other vitamins, as well as some sudafed.

I'm watching the Asia channel on Comcast and there is some show about a South Asian Swimsuit Calendar.

Last night was spent watching an episode of Six Feet Under, drum practice, and some more reading of Bill Moyer's Genesis.

I found a new Podcast from Pandora on some music recording and some basic music theory stuff. I think for a beginner, this is a pretty cool thing.

zonereyrie is reporting on Tivo's booth at CES 2007. For those who are interested in the Comcast/Tivo collaboration, check it out.

Time to get ready for work.

How's your day going?

...one woman's vacation dies.

Back to work today. Time to plot for the next vay-cay.

Of course, it's a Tuesday, and it feels like a Monday. So follows the bittersweet emotions that reconcile a 4 day work week versus having your internal clock on the fritz. Though one could get used to a 4 day work week again. Sadly, those days are over at my company.

I hope everyone else is having a marvelous Tuesday!

To Do List:
-Make hair appointment
-Schedule annual run-in with the stirrups and speculum
-Go to Home Depot and look into shelf pins and appropriate drill bit. (Yes, had an interesting shelving issue this weekend with the shelves over my tv.)
-Troubleshoot bedroom cable. Tivo S3 is doing great. It's the bedroom tivo that lost video.

But before all that, I should actually get dressed for work.

Well, a few miles southeast of where I live, PG&E is having problems with a gas leak. The road is effectively closed for the next six hours. So, if anyone wants to huff natural gas, go there.

Xbox 360 lust is creeping into my veins. Bad. And I just got my Christmas bonus. On the other hand, prices are supposed to drop after the holidays. Hmmm...On the other other hand, Costco has some nice bundles that effectively save money on lots of accessories. I should wait. I should. Yes, I should. Maybe. Yes. No. No! Yes! Way! No Way!

Self: You are not allowed to enter Costco until after Christmas!
Inner Child: But I'm sure I need to get a half-ton of essentials, like toilet paper and detergent. and an Xbox 360.
Self: It looks like we have plenty here.
Inner Child: I need batteries!
Self: in addition to these rechargeable ones here?
Inner Child: rats!

I sent an email to Comcast last night to consider carrying LinkTV. It's a really neat television station. I was watching their World Music show last night and there was a lot of fun music from Colombia, Tunisia, France, and other countries I forgot to note because a) I missed the video title info and b)I couldn't understand a word they were singing. One looked like it was from a Muslim country, with women dressed in clothes that covered their heads and bodies fairly well, and since it had subtitles, I knew that the chorus is "this love is not a means, and nor is it a game." There was also reference to the Prophet. What was interesting is that most of the people had more olive complected skin, but the lead singer was beyond white.

Of course, I already received a canned response from Comcast. So, if anyone else who has cable wants Comcast to receive an interesting television station that brings world events and culture to your door, Check out LinkTV.org and send Comcast a letter asking them for it!


Tomorrow rubbrduckage are supposed to take a little trip to Apple Hill. taogrl will not be able to have the day off, sadly. Fun should be had, though. Later that night, rubbrduckage's husband's band will be performing in Davis. I'll be attending that, and perhaps R will be able to make it as well.

Ahhh, the morning after Thanksgiving.

Black Friday, for some.


I love the battle of wills between my desire to stay warm and cozy in bed on a lovely winter morning versus the desire to be a good employee and show up to work on time.

Sascha is in favor of me staying home; he just jumped on my chest for a snuggle.

Alright, I'll get up. I will, I will!

In other news, I fixed my Tivo last night and now I can resume my morning habit of turning on Rubgy to walk myself up in the mornings. My problem can best be described by a line from Raspberry Beret: "she walked in through the out door". But instead of in doors and out doors, my problem was with input and output jacks.

I hope everyone is enjoying their day!

I awoke this morning feeling like it should be later in the week. I was slightly sad to know it was only Tuesday. Of course, I feel this way because I worked on Sunday all day, so I feel robbed of a weekend.

Now, it's time to go do my civic duty and vote.

I'm glad I took my home phone answering machine down. It saves from political cold calls. The NRA was bugging me a few times the other day.

Ugh. I feel so sluggish. Exhaustion is currently resting like heavy weights upon my brow. I sit here in the San Antonio airport, awaiting my flight home.

This week was an informative one, and I'm quite tired as a result. But the prospect of being home gladdens me considerably.

I hope y'all are having a marvelous Friday!

Today's plan features goofing around with the drums and making crab cakes.

In particular, I will be making coconut crab cakes.

( Crab Cake Recipe from Food Network )

But I also wanted to try a sweet/spicy sauce to go with these crab cakes as an alternative to the Coconut Basil Mayonnaise. I surfed the net and couldn't quite find a recipe that spoke to me, so I winged this part entirely. We'll see how they go with the cakes later.

Here's what the experimental sauce consists of:
1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
1 mango, pureed
1 jalapeno pepper, pureed
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon shredded coconut

So, I pureed the pepper and mango together, then mixed all the other incredients together with the puree in a saucepan and boiled it for about 15-20 minutes until the sauce was thickened. When I tasted it, I had the desired sweet 'n heat combo I was looking for. The spice isn't overpowering, in my opinion.

I'll actually make the crab cakes later on. If the band gets together tonight, I'm bringing that. If we don't, guess who has a lot of crab cakes at her house?

I'm up too late again.

How did I get here?
-worked late at work.
-stopped at the grocery store
-had dinner
-played city of heroes
-watched more of s2 of Veronica Mars.
-played city of heroes
-had a phone conversation
-learned some chinese on Chinesepod. Consequently, my cats heard strange sounds come out of my mought as I tried to pronounce xiexie, woa hen hao, and other words.
-did research on Tmobile SDA phones. I'm getting frustrated with my nokia 6600. I see an upgrade in my future.

But tomorrow, I'll be feeling a bit crusty. Bad Anne. Bad.

Hey, what the hell is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip doing on my tv? I tivo'd it so it's not like I need to watch it now. What am I, retarded? Don't answer that.

First off, National Atlas is a fun site. You can create all sorts of interesting maps about the United States.

Second, today was on the rough side, albeit largely successful. I got some sort of sinus headache and allergy action going on. I came home, promptly took a 50 minute power nap, while my cats snuggled up to me, then was able to be up and running.

Third, while playing City of Heroes, it's really fun to walk up to the other female in your party who looks like she's undead and ask, "Say, Pink Raven, do you ever have that not-so-fresh feeling"?

Fourth, as many of you commented, today is the fifth anniversary of 9/11. ( My thoughts on this )