Baking is as much alchemy as chemistry. You take these ingredients at just the right stage, you combine them in just the right amounts under just the right conditions with just the right force and, if you've done it right, they turn into something else. What constitutes "right" at each point can and does vary ( Read more... )

So, it all started innocuously enough.

( Jules' adventures in consumer culture and corporeality )

I work in a converted house. Downstairs, we've got a few lawyers, a property management company, and a graphics company. Upstairs, as of last summer, we have yacht brokers. When they moved in, they jokingly asked if any of us wanted to buy a yacht. I said no, but if they could keep their eyes open for a pirate ship, I'd go for that ( Read more... )

Not sure why, but last night I got one of the better nights of sleep I've had since Spouse deployed. Well, actually, I do know a bit of why: I'm finally coming out of the quarter year of sick, though the lingering ear issues and yesterday's nosebleed might fool you otherwise. My sinuses just do not like the way the air pressure builds in San ( Read more... )

Done dided ( Read more... )

I need to use this weekend to try to catch up with some parts of my life, because next weekend I'll be out of town (I'll email you, Oyce, so we can figure out when we can meet up, and I think the Ferry Building sounds like a good place for it), and if I wait until after next weekend to catch up with these things, it's going to be too late ( Read more... )

I am currently planning on being in San Francisco February 22nd through 25th for the Chinese New Year, accompanying Jenn and Reece. We've got reservations at the Grant Hotel. Is anyone up for meeting while I'm in the area? I don't know if we'll have a car, and I'm a bit leery about driving in unfamiliar cities (it's been close to twenty years ( Read more... )

So Utah, despite the presence of a few bases and despite the number of Utahns in the military, is not actually one of the most supportive states of the military. One way this comes out is in its treatment of out-of-state residents. In fact, I can't really tell you if the Utah government doesn't like out-of-state residents because most of them are ( Read more... )

I'm going to preface by saying, I do know how to sew. I have sewn my own clothes in the past, and I plan to do so in the future. I don't, however, have the means, equipment, time, or energy to sew everything I wear. Suggesting I do so will get you a warning. Not heeding the warning will get you banned ( Read more... )

Spouse will be in Seattle next week on deployment. Neither of us have been there before. My hometown is in Northeastern Oregon, and while I've had a stopover or two in Portland while flying, Spouse has never been to the coast Pacific Northwest. If he finds he doesn't like it, we're back to the drawing board on where we want to settle. I suspect ( Read more... )