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Clickie's Journal: another gelling thing!

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21 February 2008 - 11:40 pm - another gelling thing! Adding to the list of plants used for gelling. I just found out that bracken fern rhizomes, in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Woo! Looking at the list, I note that the Japanese must be really into gelled things. Traditional Japanese desserts use glutinous rice, bracken, konnyaku, agar, and kudzu.five of the nine. 2008-02-22 09:32 am (UTC). Cornstarch gells up nicely, but you've already got Poaceae. 2008-02-22 11:01 am (UTC). 2008-02-22 11:57 am (UTC).

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Clickie's Journal: swarming bugs

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24 January 2009 - 01:14 pm - swarming bugs. When it rains in California, weird bugs start swarming out of the ground. Usually it's just ants, but this storm has brought out some kind of gray swarming thing onto the patio:. Here's what one looks like at 10x magnification:. They ". come in a wide variety of decorator colors, including white, pink, yellow, green, orange, red, blue, and indigo." I'm not sure it makes me feel better to know that my swarms are tastefully colored. 2009-01-24 09:29 pm (UTC).

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Clickie's Journal: a small dream realized

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6 August 2008 - 09:13 pm - a small dream realized. I have been obsessed with sloe gin. In concept) for a pretty long while, because it's gin! Flavored with a plum-like fruit! That tastes slightly almondy! These are all things I love! Finally, I read. In the New York Times. That Plymouth started exporting a limited quantity of the Real Thing to the U.S! Yay It is plummy, with a hint of bitterness and a hint of almond. After I post this, I will probably have another, my third of the evening. I always wonde...

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Clickie's Journal: bad poster

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10 March 2008 - 11:50 pm - bad poster. I got this in an email.isn't it horrible? It just screams "Look at me! No, really, I am! It makes me sad that someone made this on purpose. 2008-03-11 04:39 pm (UTC). Index funds are interesting! They're the opposite of the lottery- a financial benefit for dumb people who actually understand how dumb they are. With no scruples. Like me. 2008-03-11 05:34 pm (UTC). Oh, I'm all for index funds; I just thought that that flyer was trying way too hard to make them AWESOME.

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Clickie's Journal: burnin'

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23 October 2007 - 02:16 pm - burnin'. The light coming in the windows is somewhat orange in tone. Outside, you can see a light ashfall covering the cars. It's very eerie. The fires aren't too near me, but the entire LA Basin is full of smoke, and I don't know if it's psychosomatic or if it's real, but I swear my lungs hurt and my thinking is not up to snuff. Bleh. 2007-10-23 10:29 pm (UTC). 2007-10-24 12:35 am (UTC). I've been wondering how all my CA people are doing. 2007-10-24 12:41 am (UTC).

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Clickie's Journal: bad luck

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18 October 2007 - 06:31 pm - bad luck. Two flat tires. Two days. Anyway, I came home after school, a bit early because I was feeling stuffy and tired. I turned into my driveway and hit the curb hard, like an idiot. When I got out of the car, I heard the hissssss of the tire going flat. Bah! This hole was in the sidewall, so UNREPAIRABLE. Fortunately, I am now quite familiar with the procedure to change the Prius's tire, so twenty minutes later, I'm headed back to the tire store. 2007-10-19 01:53 am (UTC).

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Clickie's Journal: did I mention?

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8 January 2008 - 04:03 pm - did I mention? Tom left me last June and I filed for divorce at the end of last year. There's probably a lot of story in there that I could go into, but the short version, from my point of view: Tom freaked out because he wanted to keep acting like we were 25, and I wanted to be a grown up. 2008-01-09 12:41 am (UTC). I'm going through something similar, although nobody's left anybody. Maybe I can learn from your experience. 2008-01-09 12:53 am (UTC). 2008-01-09 04:55 am (UTC).

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Clickie's Journal: grocery stores

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4 March 2008 - 10:14 pm - grocery stores. For some reason, while Wikipedia surfing, I ran across the category of Supermarkets of the United States. I found a need to score myself on how many of them I've been to. (43 out of 210, for those interested.) New meme, maybe? ETA: up to 45 of 210! Bold the stores you've been to:. Associated Grocers of Louisiana. Associated Grocers of Maine. Associated Grocers of New England. Associated Grocers of the South. Buehler Food Markets Inc. Farm Fresh Food and Pharmacy.

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Clickie's Journal: yet more dog damage

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13 October 2007 - 02:54 pm - yet more dog damage. My dog (I assume it was Jodie, but I wasn't a witness to the action) ate my cell phone today. By the way, a chewed lithium-ion battery is really, really hot. I used potholders to put it outside on the driveway so as not to set anything on fire. 2007-10-15 12:50 am (UTC). My cats just ate my house guest's headphone cable. *sigh*. 2007-10-15 03:35 am (UTC). Do you think it got hot whilst being chewed upon? A story of the city. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

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Clickie's Journal: what I did for spring break

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31 March 2008 - 05:56 pm - what I did for spring break. While I may not have had any manual labor skills, I will say that my calculations were not very far off. I needed to return 10 pavers, buy 10 more blocks, and would've had just the right amount of sand if the Home Depot guy hadn't talked me down in my sand purchasing. Here is the pit that was the backyard before. You can see why it needed to be fixed! My Illustrator layout, to show how dorky I am:. Brett and Jodie seem to like it. A story of the city.