It's Thanksgiving in America, so I'm going to use that as a segway into what I really want to talk about... which is belly dancing ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since I've posted a meaningful update. While in Salt Lake City, I did visit the Buddhist Temple. Unfortunately, it was pretty disappointing. I was expecting a statue of buddha, pillows or benches for people to meditate on, and maybe some Buddhist monks meditating. Instead, it was a converted small basketball court and they were in ( Read more... )

Some of you know that loftgeek and I were going to host Thanksgiving this year for the first time. Neither one of us had ever cooked a turkey before, so I was a bit nervous. You need to know, too, that I'm a turkey fanatic and have ridiculously high expectations for turkey. My grandparents' turkey is the best in the world (best I've had, anyways), and that ( Read more... )