My newest toy, an O’Keefe and Merritt double oven: Finally. I found it on Craig’s List in the LA area. This is the trouble with the internet: it’s troublingly simple to find Just the Right Item for sale several…
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Cookin’ With Gas
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(Not) Cooking With Gas
Still without an oven. Our house has been breadless for almost 3 weeks now. While it’s been nice to have time for chores and other hobbies, I miss baking bread—the smell, the product, the mysteries of dough. We are going…
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They Come in Pints?
My wife will be very excited to know that this truck was parked RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY OFFICE BUILDING. Picture That is all. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Dare I Say It?
Last night the gate opened freely. No binding, no sticking. It must’ve been the humidity, but I decided to sand the hell out of it anyway to make sure we are trapped in the front yard again. I now I’m…
Time Warp
Please excuse my purple Mohawk, parachute pants with bandana tourniquet, boom box, and Vuarnets. I’ve been time traveling! I stepped into some kind of rip in the space/time fabric when I went to my bank this morning to dispute a…
Done! (almost…)
Weekend of Tasks 2009 was a fantastic success. I planned on building the gate this weekend, and thus closing and sealing the perimeter of Casa Soutowood. Finally we would be able to work in the yard and Baby Harbat wouldn’t…
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Hi Ho, Hi Ho…
Recently I heard Bryan Adams whining, “Everything I do, I do it for you”. It instantly brought me back to 1991, watching the end credits of Kevin Costner’s craptacular Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves for the thousandth time. It was…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: 1991, bryan adams, global tetrahedron, icee, kb theaters, kevin costner, movie theater, popcorn, prince of thieves
Huh…what?
Yesterday I had a cold coming on like an overwrought metaphor that was…ah, forget it. Anyway, I left work early to take a nap. The first half hour I lay in bed and my mind jumped gleefully between random topics. …
Surf’s Up
Here’s one of the things I love about living in San Diego: the surf report. Every morning on my drive to work, our local public radio station does news, traffic, a blurb on weather, and the surf report. The laconic…
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Funk
This can refer to a style of music characterized by a heavy beat and sweaty bass guitar licks, a malodorous airborne cloud, or a contagious bad mood. Last night I encountered the third definition. Baby Harbat was in a good…
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