A colleague of mine mentioned she was having trouble coming up with good meals from her crock pot, so I decided that when I made borscht this weekend, I'd write everything down and type it up for her. So since I typed it up anyway, I thought I might as well share!

Chaos Queen’s Crock Pot Borscht

Inspired by the recipe at http://simplyrecipes.com/ ( Read more... )

You may have heard me mention that I recently joined the Denver Turnverein Chorus.

My first concert with them is a week from Saturday. It happens that I joined just in time to participate in a joint venture between the Denver Turnverein Chorus, the Colorado Hebrew Chorale, and the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, to mark the 200th birthday of Felix ( Read more... )

If you would like help from the technical person in your office, consider asking the question you actually want answered. For example, if you ask a question like, "Is there some reason my [application] isn't working?", the technical answer is, "Well, yes, probably". Did that help you ( Read more... )

 In case anyone was wondering, I did buy the nice Acura with all the bells and whistles. I'm enjoying tooling around in my "new" car!

Only two problems so far:
- Every time I look at it, I see a scratch or ding I hadn't noticed before. It is 4 years old, so this isn't unreasonable, but I get startled anyway.
- The awesome stereo includes a 6-CD ( Read more... )

Just a little reminder, for those who were there on Sunday, of what I'm sure is now their favorite theme song!

Interesting trivia at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/trivia -- including the fact that Mexican censors required the peasants to always be wearing clean clothes!

Next week we'll see Unforgiven, the last in our Westerns theme.

I have been trying for a long time to follow the advice that you should drive your car until it falls apart before buying a new one, because you'll save tons of money over your lifetime. This has been a bit of a struggle lately, because after 10 years I really was starting to get sick of my car, especially after it picked up some new dings and ( Read more... )

Comments on this week's movies:

* Stagecoach, 1939 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971/
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Here's my original list of suggestions for westerns. This doesn't include "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", but I wanted to see that, too. (1966, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196/)

Are we alternating Westerns with so-bad-they're-good, when we come back on the 20th?

Chronological order would give us a feel for the evolution of Westerns. Some of ( Read more... )

Ok, here's my newbie question. Somehow, when I first set up this LJ account, and started adding people, I found a setting to be notified by email when a particular "friend" posts something on their own journal. I want to set it up on other "friends", but can no longer figure out where the setting is. This is not the same as the setting to receive ( Read more... )

This is Cara. I finally broke down and got a LJ account.

I'll probably just be posting on friends' pages.