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commit
Amidst the holiday glow, I’ve committed to a camera lens. Well, amidst figuring out how to spend some Christmas payola on a smaller item, I discovered that the Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS II USM was on sale. Actually, it was slightly cheaper on Amazon than the B&H so I bought it there. We’ve all heard […]
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hypnosis
Been a while since I checked in on Freddie Wong. I pointed to some of his videos in August. Today, I stumbled on a video he did where he hypnotizes a friend. Throw in some Kevin Pollak and it’s good. By coincidence, I’ve recently become a slightly bigger fan of K-Po on my own.* He […]
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Final Bakin’ Around the Christmas Tree
And for my final weekend…started off making candy cane cookies. Cookie dough that not’s very sweet with crushed candy canes folded in. The candy canes add the sweetness and melt during baking to form a caramelized crust at the edges. Next was the roll-out sugar cookies. I was very impressed with the final results. I’m […]
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A New Running Season Begins
Tis the season for signing up for races and I made it into the Covered Bridges Half Marathon (June 5) and The Road to the Pogue (May 14). Covered Bridges sold out quickly again and I managed to get my iPhone chugging away at 7pm on Monday night when registration opened. Pogue is a little […]
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Bakin’ Again Around the Christmas Tree
So weekend two of my holiday baking included candy cane frosted brownies for my crafty gals holiday brunch (with an extra batch of frosting for a yellow cake for Ben and I). Also peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies for my work cookie swap tomorrow. I finished up the weekend with another batch of chocolate […]
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room with a view
And with the news that we’ll be stuffing our faces with treats for the next three weeks, I should mention that I’ve joined the gym. Well, Amy joined me a month ago as a little gift and I have renewed the membership. I like it quite a lot. Since moving to the woods five years […]
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Bakin’ Around the Christmas Tree
I have started a new tradition. Baking every weekend until Christmas. Ben and I will enjoy the sugary goodness and increase our holiday spirits (and hopefully not our waistlines…we have joined the gym, after all). It’s my little way of enjoying some holiday cheer every weekend and gives me a chance to try out new […]
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walking in circles
It’s weird, I heard this somewhere recently and now there’s an animated representation of it somewhere else entirely. Could be that I actually heard it on RadioLab. Robert Krulwich is a host on the always excellent radio show. One of their episodes nearly brought me to tears, so I sent them money. RadioLab is the […]
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here’s to your health
We were informed today that our joint health insurance is going up $100/month next year. I’m not sure about Amy, but I haven’t received a raise since 2007. Not only have I not increased my income, but I’ve recently seen a significant decrease as my company attempts to stay afloat. I wish I could understand […]
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an bhuatais
Amy bought this Celtic Sojourn Christmas album the other day. We were pumping the jams as we prepared the house for Thanksgiving and although I dig the radio program and I’d very much like to see the Christmas show live, I didn’t really get into the disc too much until this; The track is called […]