I drove up to Portland last night to take a class with Rachel Brice. Every now and then, when she has a month where she's not traveling too much, she'll teach a short class series at Datura. This was a 4-week series of technique drills, and last night was the final class. (It was also the only class I could make it to, so I was glad she allowed ( Read more... )

After waiting most of last week to hear from the insurance company of the people that hit my car with their motor home, I finally decided they weren't going to call me, so I called on Thursday to get the ball rolling. I left a message and didn't hear back from the Progressive agent till Friday, but after going over my information with her and ( Read more... )

I was out and about running some errands this afternoon. On the way to errand #2, I was stopped at a red light on a busy road, waiting to turn left onto the entrance ramp to the highway. If this intersection was a clock, I was at 6, pointing towards 12, waiting to turn to 9. Traffic was coming in from the exit ramp off of the highway (think ( Read more... )

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I don't feel like I have much to report here, but I feel like I should report in anyway ( Read more... )

Sunday I cooked a ridiculous amount of food, way too late in the evening. But that's what Sundays are for, and I generally try to cook enough food on Sundays to keep me in leftovers well into the week. That night it was a whole chicken roasted on a bed of root vegetables (sweet potatos, onions, parsnips, and golden beets), with tarragon-mustard- ( Read more... )

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Hello, Livejournal. I now resume normal boring posts about my normal boring life.

Remember back when I posted about the American Farmland Trust's "America's Favorite Farmer's Market" contest?. Guess what? The contest is still going on, and the Bloomington Farmers' Market is currently in 10th place in the Large category! So go here to vote, and ( Read more... )

Did the slow lorris being tickled video show up on today's Cute Overload or something? 3 or 4 people on my flist have all posted it today-- 1/5 of my friends page is entries with that vid. It's cute and all, but I've already seen it and I don't really need to watch it 3 posts in a row ( Read more... )