I got tiger stripes on my decaf this morning! Mille grazie, Lavazza!

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Finished the front left panel and started the front right. Then blocking, assembly, and border.
My place was 89 degrees when I came home– down to 79 now, but sheesh!
Finished watching the rest of this season of Code Monkeys, some funny bits but not sure it is worth the effort. The Tivo is totally getting [...]

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I finished the second sleeve of the kimono sweater that I am working on. So I have the sash, back, and two sleeves complete.  Now I start on the front left and right.  Then assemble it all.
I am trying to have this complete  by Sept 19… we’ll see.

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Today almost past without me realizing it was the anniversary of my accident. Maybe next year I’ll completely miss it.
I have a little back soreness today, even iced a bit but I think it’s from doing too much when camping; which is a fine problem to have– will be more carefull next time.
Oo

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Made Linguine with Pesto tonight, used 18 basil leaves instead of 24 and it was perfect.  The garlic was a little old and oniony (even though I bought it yesterday).  I also made some scallops in brown butter and saffron.
Now I have pasta for the week and Pesto in the freezer.

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I’ve dusted off my PHP/MySQL book (Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL) and am going to start on my new application.  I have done the table planning and am ready to get started.  It will fun to be doing something more technical again.

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I just upgraded and things are going well (now that I rememebered to copy my themes and plugins to the new directory.

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All you burning man folks may have some advice here.  How do you clean your tent and sleeping bag that are now coated with a fine coating of red dust?  It is EVERYWHERE? I have everything else from the trip cleaned and put away except for my sleeping bag (not too bad) and tent (VERY [...]

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Slept much better, woke up and the day was thankfully cooler (high 90s).  Many folks had bits of sunburn here and there and weren’t looking forward to being in the 90 degree weather so we decided to go to one of the nearby caves (60 degrees for relief).  We chose the one with the tram [...]

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For me, the second day was the best. We had a yummy breakfast (I skipped the scrambled eggs and had MEs delicious zucchini bread and some bacon and potatoes. I also tested out my new Moka pot and made some decaf (Sigh) espresso.
Then came the fun. We drove to the lake and hiked down to [...]

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The drive to the camp wasn’t bad.  The fact that it was called the Gloryhole campground (fun for the whole family!) made for a lot of fun jokes along the way.   We also stopped at Sonic so I have finally eaten a Sonic burger after years of seeing ads.  (It was pretty good and they [...]

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Saw my first scorpion ever tonight, apparently there are rattlesnakes and tarantulas.

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I’ve always chewed my nails. Nothing my parents did helped. They put gloves on me before bed. They painted this really nasty tasting stuff on my nails (I can still taste it, cause I chewed right through it) Nothing helped. At 41 I decided not to bite them any more, but they [...]

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but in one of the moves, I guess I got rid of it. So I bought one tonight. It is really awesome. I realized when I got it home, that I’ve never put line on a pole before. The one pole my dad gave me came loaded and I never had [...]

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I’m really tired from the last two days of training and a lot of work. When I get tired, I get punchy:
I see you found my turkey cannon…
Turkey Cannon…..NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
That is all.

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I tried assembling the tent that M and R gave me a few years ago.  It went up fairly quickly (15 min) considering I had never seen it before and I didn’t know exactly what I was doing.  I also suspect that with one more set of hands it would have been up in 5.
I [...]

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It’s by Fuji, pretty sweet, 12mexapixels, fits in my purse, and came with a 2GB card (plus I already had one). Here’s a shot i took in Macro mode, which came out surprisingly well.
http://flutt3r.com/~llama/photos/nature/html/index0001.html

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