Occasionally, other than a way to avoid talking to my parents to let them know what I’ve been up to lately (kidding!), my blog serves a useful purpose.  For example, the other day as Hanne and I were talking about her birthday (last Sunday), I couldn’t remember what I was doing on my 24th birthday, [...]

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Three cloves garlic: $0.15
1/2 yellow sweet onion: $0.45
1/2 red bell pepper: $2.00
1/4 pound fresh mushrooms: $2.50
1 can tomato paste: $1.00
Kalamata olives: $0.50
1/2 pound spaghetti: $0.50
Bread: $1.00ish
Lots of spices: $Not much
Ravenblum Zinfandel:  $12
Making your girlfriend dinner for the second night in a row after making a big deal about making a special pizza for her birthday [...]

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Last week I was a bit perturbed to discover that my Media Center PC I built earlier in the year to replace my TiVo was, shall we say…malfunctioning. That’s a fast and loose use of the word, though. When I finally powered on my TV after a day or two of not using [...]

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10 gallons of beer fermenting in my kitchen, with 200 billion yeast cells chewing on almost 20 pounds of malted barley and spitting out CO2.  Now, if only I could have global warming keep my apartment warm, I’d be happy with this contribution to the decline of the world.
On the other hand, mmmmmmmm.

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As I put it to a friend in an email yesterday, I’ve been brewing like a maniac recently.  My party was such a hit and my beer supply has increased so much recently, I decided to have another party the first weekend in December with four new beers to show off (plus my stock of [...]

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Stephen Colbert announced that he’s running for President of the United States.  I fully support this action and the truthiness of the political situation: if actors can be Governors and Presidents and wrestlers can be Governors, I can’t imagine that a comedian would do a worse job than the people currently in power.   Or running [...]

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Perhaps if I even have an inkling of worries about my waistline, drinking a bottle of beer at work during a baby shower before I head off to drink beer at a McMenamins isn’t the wisest of choices.
Of course, neither is being on the mailing list for the Green Dragon.  Every time I get an [...]

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When I start writing a post, the first thing I think about is the title–probably because “Title” is the first field I’m presented with–and my first inclination is to use a lyric from the last song I was listening to, in tonight’s case “Supermassive Black Hole” by Muse.  I usually wait until I’m done writing [...]

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While it provides with a few moments of boredom every now and then as I wait on pieces of information to get to me, work has been going quite well this week. I finished up one project, I’m well on my way to finishing up another, and a big piece of the puzzle for [...]

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