Archives—November 2010

November 9—New Recipes

I went to the Austin Satellite Rally to Restory Sanity on October 30th, which was the local variant on Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity. Mostly all that happened was we stood on the steps to the Capitol and watched the real rally on TV, which I have to admit I did not think lived up to the hype. It was fun, but I'm glad I didn't spend my money on a plane ticket to go to the real one. I went to a hockey game that night, which was more enjoyable, all the more so since the Aeros won. Go Houston! It was a pleasant kickoff to Halloween, my favorite holiday. I went to a local coffee shop to listen to some Celtic horror stories, which was considerably better than Sixth Street, which I passed up in favor of going home to cook. I invented a recipe for spicy twice-baked sweet potatoes while I was at it. I did a lot of cooking this week, which resulted in a couple of new mole recipes. All of the above were of course fraught with the usual klutzy incidents.

I worked Shrek the Musical at Bass Concert Hall last week, which was a good gig aside from working an idiot. That in turn provoked me to email a different coworker, who doesn't even like me but is a good hand, and beg him to call the stage manager for work. I had hoped he would get work instead of the idiot coworker, but said idiot was there during the load out. Oh well, at least I helped my coworker get work. He didn't answer me when I messaged him asking him how he liked working there, though, so I'm still not on his good side. *sigh*

I've updated the political blog and PAWP.

November 14—PAWP Gets Its Second Wind

I have, as usual, updated The Project a Week Project (PAWP). Due to carpal tunnel syndrome, I haven't been able to keep up with much of the knitting itself, but I have posted patterns. My biggest to date is the pattern for the yoked keyhole sweater, for which I got the idea at least two years ago. I've nearly completed it now; I hope to have images of it and a couple of hats up soon. Anyway, I finally contacted Hank Schwemmer, the guy who inspired me to create PAWP. Contrary to my fears, he did not react in horror but rather was flattered. Good. I find that that encourages me to work all the harder on PAWP.

I've also updated klutzy incidents and the political blog.