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Dog Pile

I found this little picture of bacon when we first decided she was the one we wanted. She was sleeping in a pile with her brother and sister. We went to the petstore to buy a crate and color and stuff, and when we came back she had plenty of energy and was so cute! I wonder where her brothers and sisters are in the world, and how they are doing.

Oh winter is here. We had a pretty great fall, and luckily in the next few days the days will be getting longer.

One thing it doesn’t feel like at all, is Christmas. Although listening to this can help get you in the mood.

2011.12.21

Seattle, WA
Showers (45Â° f)

Bacon
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Dinner Tonight

Gnocchi with Butternut Squash, Spinach, and Chickpeas with Balsamic Reduction

The gnocchi I made last week was a lot better. I don’t mean the actual gnocchi, I don’t make those, I used “shelf stable gnocchi”, which are surprisingly good. I feel like the gnocchi absorbed too much liquid when added back to the vegetables while the chickpeas did not heat up enough, so will probably try this again, with some timing changes.

And for dessert, a Cinnamon Baked Apple.Â Had some apples that were a little bruised and not the most appealing as they started to over-ripen. Not the best dessert ever, but pretty good.

2011.12.19

Seattle, WA
Cloudy (47Â° f)

Starting early

Good Morning…

It was great, I got to drop Amanda off at the work. That happens a lot. But today, she was excited, she started her new job today. I am happy that she is excited about going to work, and that she gets to work on some amazing research.

Big ups to Mr. Pirone, who had a 27″ monitor in his basement, and let Amanda have it for her new office. He has also not been updating his podcast very often.

In other EXCITING, not really, news, I now have a Facebook Timeline. I am not sure what the difference really is, but they are excited about it over in Facebook land.

I like that in the photo above, you can see Kerri talking shit about M.I.A. It is a fun past time.

I realized today, that I better start getting ready for the bike rides coming up. I am looking around online for a good beginners training schedule, to get someone ready to ride. Hopefully I will be in good enough shape soon to go on weekend rides with Nate, who must be riding a lot, since he also is not updating his blog.

Last year’s Chilly Hilly was a pain in the ass, I can’t imagine how hard the STP would have been if I hadn’t been on tour. By the end, that smiling face was GONE!

2011.12.19

Seattle, WA
Cloudy (47Â° f)

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Blog Notes / Morning Poker

Good Morning…

So I think I have the basic layout for the mail section of the blog, as well as the single page/posts to look like I want them to.

Still working on the navigation on the bottom.

I think the footer is close to what I want.

Header needs some work, not sure what I want to do with it, but thinking of putting some sort of rotating image up there.

Also having an issue where sometimes the line under the date to the left of the post and the line under the post title don’t always line up. Sometimes it does, sometime it doesn’t. I have found that often I am 1 pixel off doing stuff in this css world.

No flashback post today, since the day I started this blog I have never posted to it on December 18.

Took the bus to downtown today, to walk up to meet Derek. Speaking of Derek, I wish he still was doing his food blog. I need new places to eat.

Speaking of Bonks, maybe head over and check out Kerri’s blog. She doesn’t seem to have been doing it much lately, maybe she needs some traffic to encourage her.

Went and played poker this morning with Derek.