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r-pentomino: September 2014
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. Home Canned Spaghetti Sauce. I've been experimenting. This is the current iteration. 8 cloves garlic, minced. 1 Stalk Celery, minced. 1-2 Carrots, minced. 4 yellow onions, chopped. 1C Red Wine Vinegar. 2t crushed red pepper flakes. 1/2 t Black Pepper. 6x 8oz cans tomato paste. 3 Green Bell Peppers, Seeded, Chopped. 3 Add the remaining ingredients EXCEPT for the Tomato Paste and the Bell Peppers. Let that bubble over low heat for an hour or more. 4 Thicken with tomato paste.
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r-pentomino: Gardening adventurers 2014
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. I did a fairly poor job at the gardening last year, and the one grand experiment for the year was so poorly documented as t barely qualify as an anecdote, but here it is anyway. I decided to do some experimentation with tomato growing, to see what would give the best yield. I tried three different methods. well, six, really. 1 Free growing bush, no pruning. 2 Free growing bush, some pruning. 3 Tomato cage, no pruning. 4 Tomato cage, moderate pruning. 5 Single Stake, moderate pruning.
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r-pentomino: January 2015
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Monday, January 12, 2015. An alligator in Logan, UT. At lunch today I went for a walk. There is a path near my office which runs along the Logan river, through a pasture. It was cold, raining-on-the-verge of snowing. SO I had my hood pulled down, and I was walking fairly quickly. A small one, maybe a a foot or two in length, but most definitely the correct size, shape, texture, color and motion. Then that smart-astic voice in the back of my head chimed in with that annoyingly smug voice. The funny thing ...
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r-pentomino: The Secret I Discovered in "Meet the Mormons"
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Monday, April 13, 2015. The Secret I Discovered in "Meet the Mormons". It took three viewings before I saw it. I went and saw "Meet the Mormons". In the Theater with my Kids. I enjoyed it. mostly. I mean it is a great story, six great stories actually, of six amazing people who have done and who are doing great things in the world. As documentaries go, it was well done, well filmed, good flow, good music. fin, light, inspiring. What's not to like? Still, I enjoyed it, so, when it went on sale, I bought it.
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r-pentomino: April 2014
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Saturday, April 26, 2014. Regrets 4: I regret not using a planner more consistently/effectively. While serving a mission for the LDS church, I was introduced to the idea of a planner. They had little weekly planner sheets, which were used to schedule out the weeks activities. Nothing very sophisticated, but it helped make sure our time was filled, and that we didn't miss appointments we had made. After using these for a few months, I was introduced to the Franklin Day planner. 2 When I would pack that pl...
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r-pentomino: Health Update: An Unexpected Turn of Events.
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Health Update: An Unexpected Turn of Events. A few months ago I started experiencing rather severe joint and muscle pain. It was beginning to look as if I might be graduating from just Crohn's to something more debilitating. My Dr. ruled out Rheumatoid, then gave me some meloxicam to see if that would help. Then comes the twist. During all this, I decided to try a different GI doctor. He asked some questions, and decided to work his way through my insides: Endoscopy, small...Now u...
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r-pentomino: June 2015
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Monday, June 8, 2015. Different Flavors of Marriage. The cool and crummy thing about language (American English in particular) is that it can be fluid. Language is really just sounds that we put together in unique ways and assign meaning. And written language is just a way to represent those sounds. without making any sound. I say that word, and you have an image in your mind. Fat", "Phat.". Same sound, different spellings, different meanings. That may not be the right title, suggestions? I am trying to ...
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r-pentomino: May 2015
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. I really want to get my kids better trained in picking up - keeping their rooms clean, keeping their stuff picked up and put away. I know I get frustrated when I have to look for things that I know should be in a specific spot, so I'd really like to get them trained up right, with the right habits. I just snapped this photo of the floor in my office. It has been like that for a couple months now. I tried three different methods. well, six, really. 1 Free growing bush, no pruning.
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r-pentomino: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Netscape, Vmware, Microsoft and The Propellerheads ft. Shirley Bassey. Anytime I think about history repeating, I think about The Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey. So, here's your random song for the day. But setting aside the word association. Sometime right around 1980, a Fine, upstanding British chap by the name of Tim Berners-Lee. Proposed a project to create a Hypertext. System to facilitate the sharing and updating of information among researchers. In 1995 Bill Gates weig...
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