The trip to Seattle went well. The weather cooperated, I had some really good seafood out there, met a lot of my remote coworkers, and got some great feedback from Anil. No regular-employee status, alas, but it's close. My only complaint on the trip was that I got booked into a smoking room, and I'm allergic... the hotel did not have another room ( Read more... )

A quick update, while the muffins are in the oven. Tae, the Friendship starter is still going strong, and it's picking up sourdough-like characteristics that play out well in the end bread ( Read more... )

Lots to write about today, so it's lj-cut time for the sake of space.

( grandma update )

It's been a tired week up here. I had an allergy...hate to call them allergy attacks, it's more like allergy guerrilla warefare. They sneak up on me and backstab me, then run off snickering. I actually took time off to stay home and sleep. It's not that I can't be at work, it's just my 'heavy' allergy meds (hydroxisomething HCl, known as 'those ( Read more... )