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| Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | | 4:29 am |
24 Years and a Box
I don't write here as often as I mean to… I'm caught between expressing the trivial and the important. The trivial seems too trivial. The important seems too big to wrap with words. I want to talk about stuff, but then I don't have the energy and when I do have the energy, I don't have the time. When I finally have the energy and the time, my words dry up. Actually, you guys don't know it, but I talk to you all the time in my head. Probably fortunately for us all, you don't answer, which is the main downside. But today I wanted to show you guys something. ( This is a picture of a box. ) | | Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | | 9:01 pm |
Norovirus Details
Mostly for my own information (i.e., I really hope you don't need it): CDC's webpage about Norovirus: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/norovirus.htmCDC's technical fact sheet: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/norovirus-factsheet.htmUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Pesticide Programs, List G: EPA’s Registered Antimicrobial Products Effective Against Norovirus (Norwalk-like virus) January 9, 2009: http://www.epa.gov/oppad001/list_g_norovirus.pdfProduct: SPRAY NINE EPA Reg#: 6659-3 Registrant:: Knight Marketing Corp. Approval Date: 07/10/2008 Active Ingredients: Alkyl*dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride *(60%C14, 30%C16, 5%C18,5%C12) 0.15% Alkyl*dimethyl ethylbenzyl ammonium chloride*(68%C12, 32%C14) 0.15% Spray Nine is available at Tags in Porter Square, Cambridge, MA | | 8:40 pm |
Nearly Lost My Temper
Remember when I mentioned that I have some anger issues? Well I just added another event to my list. Someone blew through the light at Porter on Mass Ave (the light for Upland Road). It had been red for a full two-count. I was walking in the same direction the driver was driving, so I saw the whole thing. Pedestrians were IN THE CROSSWALK and halfway across the near side of the road and she beeped at them! The next light was red as well and there were cars in front of her so she had to stop. One of the pedestrians swung around and banged on her hood (by no means hard enough to dent) and yelled "You almost hit me!" She leapt out of the car and starts screaming at him, "Fuck you! I don't care what you did! I don't care what I did! You don't fuckin' touch my car!" And he's almost yelling (more like speaking firmly) and she's yelling at him to "Fuck off!" and I drew abreast and said, "No! YOU fuck off, lady! You almost hit him! I saw the whole thing!" So she turns on me with "Fat bitch! Fat whore! Fuck you!" on and on and on. My favorite? "Lose some weight, get a job and a haircut." It was 7pm. What the hell made her think I didn't have a job? I have THREE jobs. ( MOAR DRAMAZ HEER )So I went to Shaw's and bought my Super Bowl snacks. But I was shaking from the post-adrenaline come-down and I think my eyes leaked a little. Man. I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut. | | 2:42 pm |
| | Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | | 11:20 pm |
| | Thursday, January 12th, 2012 | | 8:25 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 | | 6:18 am |
WARREN ELLIS: CAPTURED GHOSTS Screening
So, I'm going to this: Patrick Meaney directed and Jordan Rennert shot the documentary Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts as a followup to the critically acclaimed Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods. The film screens on Saturday Jan 07, 2012 7-9pm at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116. Tickets are $7 - or, rather, $8.24 with tax or surcharges or something. More details here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218886See you there? | | Thursday, December 29th, 2011 | | 7:27 am |
Semi-Useful Things
A couple of things that have been floating around in my head lately... If you have a digital camera, go get a piece of paper & a marker. Write your name, country of origin, and phone number (with country code) on it. Take a picture of that piece of paper and make sure that image is the first one in your camera. If your camera lives in a small case or bag, put the paper (or a business card) into the bag. Consider laminating it first or using some clear packing tape so the ink doesn't run. This is kinda dumb, but if you know someone who's trying to learn how to use chopsticks (or get better at using them), suggest eating a bowl of popcorn with them. Popcorn is both difficult and easy to pick up with chopsticks - good practice. Feelin' like a font of suggestions today. | | Thursday, December 8th, 2011 | | 5:04 am |
Spoiler-ish Question
I finally sat down and read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson the other day and WOW. That is one intense and detailed book. I was quite astonished at how much happened and how well it all hung together. I also grew very fond of the characters introduced. I'm debating whether I want to see the movie. Part of me wants to see how they adapted it and part of it is terrified that they did it so well I'll have nightmares. Anyway, I have a question about something I found somewhat incongruous. ( CUT for SPOILER ) | | Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 | | 1:57 am |
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Sick Of The Sick
I have had a cold or flu thingy (and I got a damn flu shot back on 10/5!) for going on 10 days as of today (Tuesday). So not only am I sleeping EVEN MORE than my usual 12-15 hours a day, I feel like a bucket of poo as well. Thus, if I haven't replied to you or done something you expected, I apologize. My brain is full of snot, my body is one big cramp from coughing, & I'm losing the will to live. | | Monday, November 21st, 2011 | | 3:23 am |
Root Cellar?
Anybody do anything root-cellar-like to preserve your harvest or CSA shares? I don't want to build a room in the basement, I just wanna keep most of my fruits & veggies from rotting too fast. | | Sunday, November 13th, 2011 | | 12:42 am |
| | Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 | | 3:48 am |
| | Monday, October 3rd, 2011 | | 7:05 pm |
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Attention California Peeps
Anybody California peeps willing to let a friend of mine couch surf for a day or two? She's headed for San Francisco, then her plans are up in the air (I think). She's a nice kid. A friend of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) ceciliatan's too. If so, drop me an email (kjc at kjcedits dot com) with your phone # as she's pretty much phone only with limited Internet as she travels. Thanks! | | Friday, September 23rd, 2011 | | 12:10 am |
Dealotrons
I need more dealotrons. When my depression waxes, I have less ability to deal with stuff & a limited queue, meaning I can only deal with a few things at a time. When it wanes, I gain more dealotrons and have a longer queue and can think better. I'm definitely coping rather than dealing right now. Needed a break from dealing, to be honest, but a whole bunch of stuff that requires dealing keeps falling on my head, refusing to be ignored. | | Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 | | 1:45 am |
Food & Motivation
Today's farmshare (from Farmer Dave) contained a ginormous eggplant, so I cut it into thirds-ish and roasted it, then turned the innards into baba ghanoush. The roasting took the longest at 40 minutes (probably 30 would've done it), with peeling a distant second while throwing all the ingredients into the food processor was the fastest bit. Also used farmshare garlic & farmshare parsley. Easy peasy. In fact, the winner for PAIN IN THE ASS in this recipe was the tahini I had in the cabinet and hadn't even opened, much less used, in years. It took me probably an hour of abusing it with a spoon and a butter knife to bring it back to a state of creaminess (rather than a solid and a liquid). I ate the bunch of arugula I got in the farmshare for dinner, after topping it with home-made vinaigrette dressing (using pomegranate vinegar as a base; it's a little too sweet... I like fig vinegar better, I think). The new pouring top we got this weekend for the olive oil bottle helped a lot with that task. The "slicing tomato" got sliced and each slice went on a piece of fresh garlic ciabatta (an awesome kind of bread) then topped with a slice of fresh mozzarella (bread & mozzarella were store-bought, alas). Also washed, drained, & froze the raspberries. Everything else went in the fridge. Next up! First, eating the chilled baba ghanoush. Second, using the Thai basil I grew in a pot in the backyard in fresh spring rolls. (I've only ever had them with mint, I think.) One of the nice things about food is that eating is a good motivation for going through the process of finding a recipe and preparing it. And, similar to the ease of being lame and not going anywhere, but having people show up & help me do things, having a farm share puts me in the position of having a pile of food that I need to handle. It sort of works for getting me motivated. Not as much as I'd like, but sort of... | | Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | | 2:17 am |
A Lack of Excitement
Is this a thing? Something that everyone feels? I imagine so. I don't know if I've heard it articulated quite this way, but I feel like it's a thing... except... I dunno. I keep feeling like I expected that my life would be more exciting. That more stuff would happen, perhaps happen TO me, and I'd have to do the adult-equivalent of a treasure hunt or research or an investigation to deal with those things. It's not like I don't travel... I've been around the world. I've tried the foods of many countries, both here and abroad. (Sidebar irony: all 3 (or more) cases of food poisoning I've had in my life have been from eateries that were local to me at the time serving stereotypical "American" food.) I talk to all sorts of people. I work retail, for goodness' sake. I used to go out a lot more than I do, but I still see concerts and plays and movies and artsy events and street parades and craft fairs. I've done a VAST amount of medical research trying to diagnose or at least understand the complexities of my various conditions. I've also experienced a plethora of weird medical procedures, some a bit obscure, but nothing Frankesteinian. I haven't learned anything interesting or made any great breakthroughs... On the plus side, I haven't ended the world by accidentally creating zombies either. Did I use up all my excitement by having an unconventional living situation in The Ranch? Or is there stuff I'm supposed to be doing to tap my allotment of exciting? Or is this part of middle age, this settling down thing? Or the restlessness... is that a mid-life crisis thing? Of course I'm going through vast mental and personal upheaval, and depending on how the next few months go, I may have a dramatically different life ahead of me. But that's not the FUN kind of exciting I'm talking about. I'm not looking for the consequences of "may you live in interesting times" or anything like that. I just feel... disappointed is probably the best word for it. | | Monday, September 19th, 2011 | | 1:43 am |
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