QotD: What I Love About Vox

In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox? Oh Vox, you're so needy sometimes. YES, I like you. YES, I'm faithful to you and tell all my friends about our great times together. We've been through some rough patches and we've both changed over the couple months we've been… Continue reading QotD: What I Love About Vox

QotD: Weekend Plans

What are your plans for the weekend? Homeownin' takes center stage this weekend as I try to decide what to do about a plaster wall that's giving up the ghost. What got me to where I am now with it? First I noticed some moisture issues on that and an adjacent wall. There are some… Continue reading QotD: Weekend Plans

She's real fine my 409

End of the tea King's 409 Dark 1st Grade [this is good] This is going to sound like a J. Peterman story, but the friend who introduced me to this tea was a monk from Thailand named Tan Suvit. He was one of my very best friends when I did a year's study abroad in… Continue reading She's real fine my 409

QotD: This Week's Top 25

What are your top 25 most played songs?  Submitted by Cooxie.   This is what iTunes currently has to say about the matter. I think it's lying about all the Shins songs. I've misplaced my iPod so this is just what I listen to on my computer. Car listening also excluded: What Ever Happend to You?   … Continue reading QotD: This Week's Top 25

hobby assessment part 2: how about a roll call

Before I break down another interest like I did the crafting one, I'm running down the list. I'll add to this as they occur to me later: crafting (check) reading (yeah, it counts, and yeah, the shapes do still make pictures in my head sometimes) amateur entrepreneurship/product development/world domination planning cooking/baking sitting around vintage scooter… Continue reading hobby assessment part 2: how about a roll call

Some areas taken up by crafting supplies and other miscellany

I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and peep these two annotated Flickr photos to see a few of the junk caches I'm trying to contend with. The photos are labelled as friends/family only over on Flickr. I don't know if I've got you all in there, so if you're not and would… Continue reading Some areas taken up by crafting supplies and other miscellany

Anadama Bread — he is not risen so good

More like..passive dry yeast It's tasty, anyway. Click through to the Flickr version for my cooking tip(s). For the record, that's a rice cooker in the back, not a bread machine. Read and post comments | Send to a friend