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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - Hopography
What's been keeping me busy lately? Unsurprisingly, it's a dorky website combining two of my interests: homebrewed beer and databases. Hopography is a homebrew logging website I made so I could keep track of what kinds of hops, malts and other ingredients went into my brews. I hope it will take off and help people improve their beers too; I know mine have been getting better... Sunday, November 30, 2008 - Thanksgiving 2008
::sighs::. The gravy is finally put away, mary's beautiful shiny knives are back up on our wall, and the end of a 4 day weekend is near. We cooked our Italian Turkey this year, just like last year, with a panceta-chestnut-ciabatta stuffing. Dinner included: * Brined turkey (1 cup salt, 1 cup sugar, rosemary, lavender, thyme from the garden, soak for 2 days), meat massaged under the skin with herbs and olive oil before the roast. Gravy was standard, with all the sweatbreads finely diced and thrown in. * Bechamel basil lasgana (which my dad stole almost all of when he took leftovers home) * New Glaurus Red Ale (door county cherries) Cranberry sauce * Ale Asylum Contorter Porter Pumpkin Pie (it called for only 1/2 a bottle, but 3/4 would have been even better!) * Green Bean Cassarole (my dad's, but we got the recipe from the back of the fried onions at TJ's that Mary demoed) We didn't have mashed potatoes, although we peeled enough to make them, from the sheer volume of other food. We kept thanksgiving small this year. Monica had Rodey's mother & brother over, and we had my folks. The girls really seem to be stressed by the holiday family gatherings. Their holidays were always small, but there were always intermittent guests (POW's, etc.) Mary's family, who moved out to MA to be with Mary-Ann earlier in the fall, had Thanksgiving with her sister. I haven't had a chance to breathe, let alone write, since Shelly left in June. I'm just now starting to get a system to take care of all the work that needs to be done in the lab. There are really 4 3/4 time jobs that I can figure out, and I need to be better about sharing them with people, although I've finally been able to train people on a few key tasks. Kris handles the extra systems stuff for me, Elisa handles the analyses, and Ken handles the programming. I still don't have anyone to do data management, keeping track of participants when they come in and making them available to people. I'm working on automated ways to do this with Ken, but it's still time-consuming. In terms of the lab work, it's a dirty job - not glamourous, kinda repetitive, subject to the whims of the timing of the computers, but yet still difficult and confusing. It requires a high degree of organization, which in turn requires focus. That I can't always give. I'm also surprisingly rather enjoying the web development, both for hopalicious and for the Scan App. It's hard to choose what to spend my time on, what I really want to do. I could imagine being good at development, at system work, at research, at graphing and playing with interfaces, computer psychology, memory and awareness. It's hard to talk about memory and awareness in the lab... It's hard to test at the level we're looking; sometimes I feel like we never really get memory in the way they do with aplasia studies, lesion studies, that kinda thing. Well, I just wasted an hour and a half looking at uw graduate progrms (wisc & wash). So many possible directions to go... Labels: rant, thanksgiving Monday, January 14, 2008 - Decency < Stank
Monday, January 07, 2008 - The point...
I feel like the proper time to invite friends over for dinner is right after the point they ask "why haven't you asked us over before? We should really do this more often!" Sunday, December 02, 2007 - Heh heh
Dec. 1st corresponded with the first real snow, and since we live right on a steep hill on a busy street, it's been hi-larious watching cars and busses try to climb up it. I just felt like announcing my schadenfreude to the world. I also realized, while I was making Mary coffee this morning, that I especially like the sound of the coffee grinder when it's snowing. Maybe it's a kickback to when I would run downstairs Saturday mornings and watch two hours of cartoons and [ in the winter ] snowfall at dawn before my dad would come down and make himself some decaf coffee. Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - On the bus to work...
I think it's one of life's little humors that the Livestock Laboratory on campus has a weber grill sitting right out in front of it. Sunday, August 26, 2007 - Candy Irony of the Year: 2007
Guofan has Chinese Hawthorn flavored candies (he's got several actually, some are cubes, some are flakes... all are delicious in the best of carcinogenic senses. The irony comes when you read the label of the "Happiness Brand" Haw Flakes, which advises us to "keep flakes away from sunshine." Heh heh heh... |
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