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Jack Nicholson demonstrates hydrogen powered car - in 1978!

2008-07-31T04:28:00.001-07:00

Spinach pizza

2008-07-11T17:12:00.001-07:00

With added bell peppers

Justice Scalia on torture

2008-04-30T15:53:00.004-07:00

Torture is not "cruel and unusual punishment" as outlawed in the constitution because - get this - he says it's "not punishment." This is what a Bush appointed supreme court justice looks like. And remember, it's an appointment for life...

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2008-04-23T07:50:00.000-07:00

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2008-04-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

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Update

2008-03-29T10:30:00.001-07:00

It started snowing again

Spring in the NW

2008-03-29T06:50:00.002-07:00

It snowed off and on all day yesterday and last night.

Obamania!

2008-02-09T15:33:00.000-08:00

I just got back from my first caucus ever and I had a blast. There was a really positive energy in the room. One old guy who was voting for Obama told me he remembers the Kennedy campaign and he said this feels the same way. The final tally in our room was 103 for Obama, 39 for Hillary, which works out to 13 delegates for Obama, 5 for Clinton. Guess who one of the delegates is? That's right, me. I'm going to the county convention, and hopefully even the state convention (as long as it's not during the work week).

I'm going out for a celebratory pint of Ben and Jerry's.

New Year's day flog

2008-01-01T19:42:00.000-08:00

breakfast

oatmeal with pumpkin seeds and - pumpkin pie spice!
yogurt
organic banana
orange juice, and a little water (not together)

lunch
pan fried tempeh and potatoes
Vault energy drink (boo! my new year's resolution was to stop drinking soft drinks - it lasted half a day)

dinner
lentils in gravy, with chopped carrot
whole wheat garlic toast

fresh herbs

2007-12-06T20:36:00.001-08:00

Today I tried something I've always wanted to do - cook with fresh herbs. I made spaghetti and instead of dried herbs I used fresh basil and oregano and it was out of this world good. It also successfully covered the taste of the spinach I added. I'm a regular rachel ray. Now I need a girlfriend so I can cook for her.

Since I don't have a decent chef's knife or a cutting board (things that I really want to get now that I'm watching the food network), I cut the herbs with what's known in the telecom industry as snips, which are basically very strong scissors which they use to cut through wire. Wanna know something gross? I've used them to cut wire before. And I think I tried to use them once to cut up some old moldy carpet. And god knows what else. Don't worry I've washed them sometime in the past.

flog

2007-11-28T22:03:00.000-08:00

breakfast
2 pb&j sandwiches on organic whole wheat bread
chocolate soymilk

lunch
tofu smoothie with yoghurt, blueberries, strawberries, wheat germ, and nutritional yeast, sweetened with brown rice syrup

dinner
homemade lentil stew
whole wheat toast
homemade yoghurt with blueberries

Indian curry

2007-11-25T21:14:00.000-08:00

I found a source for Indian curry pastes, and I've been trying a couple recently. My favorite so far is a madras curry. Tonight I used some leftover sauce I made earlier in the week and simmered some frozen peas in it. It tasted just like something I had in a frozen Indian meal I got at the grocery store. I'm planning on making a big batch and freezing it in individual serving containers. I just don't know what I'd have with it.

Spinach Pizza!

2007-10-14T21:18:00.000-07:00

I had a spinach pizza from Amy's recently and it was pretty good. I've come to the conclusion that you can eat anything with cheese and it will be good. Today I had a spinach pizza pocket which is much more convenient for me at work since it's microwaveable. I've had Amy's burritos before but I always thought they were overpriced for what they provided nutritionally, though they are all organic. The ones I'm eating now have tofu in them as well which you cannot really taste but add tremendously to the protein content.

I've decided that I will continue to eat cheese in prepackaged meals, so I probably won't be vegan anytime soon. Not because I can't go without cheese in my life, but because so many veg options contain it. I will try to eat only organic cheese preferably that doesn't contain animal enzymes or rennet (which is obtained from animals' stomach lining, thereby supporting the slaughter industry) and thankfully Amy's stuff at least meets those requirements. It's bad enough knowing that I'm eating animal excretions. If I had more time and money and could find or cook food that didn't have cheese or other dairy products I would, but for now I'll have to be happy with this.

After browsing through their website I am eager to try more things. I think the next thing I try is the Indian samosa wraps with peas, potatoes, and tofu. I might even break down and try the one with broccoli, cheese, and potatoes, or the palak paneer (though the ratio of spinach to cheese looks a little low) or even the Indian vegetable korma (although it contains cauliflower, which is completely alien to me and looks like brains, although it's far down on the ingredients list and mixed with other stuff so you probably can't taste it).

Moving day

2007-09-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

I moved my kitty Squeaky in with me in Bellingham and it was a very traumatic experience. She cried almost the entire hour and a half. I stopped at Taco Bell because I was starving and when I got back to the car I couldn't find her. I panicked and thought somebody took her or maybe she snuck out when I opened the door and didn't notice, but then I found her hidden under the drivers seat. She spent the rest of the day under my bed at her new home. She came out a couple of times but goes right back whenever she hears somebody talking or one of the other cats peeks it's head in the door. I'm off for the next couple of days so hopefully she'll be acclimated by then.

Yummy

2007-09-02T21:06:00.001-07:00

1/2 serving of veggies in each serving of chips.

Sweet Potato Awareness site

2007-09-01T20:31:00.000-07:00

No kidding. It's really confusing. Chances are you've probably never seen an actual yam...

EOM Picnic

2007-08-30T19:23:00.000-07:00

I got paid to hang out at the lake and play Frisbee today.

My first eBay auction

2007-08-26T12:42:00.001-07:00

Yeah it's a lame item and a poor photo but I'm just getting my feet wet in e-commerce. If this works out I have tons of old stuff to sell. I've casually thought about the idea many times but this time I'm serious. I have to start making money off the internet like everybody else.

Salsa bar!

2007-08-22T19:03:00.000-07:00

miso soup

2007-08-20T20:31:00.001-07:00

Tonight I made miso soup, from a packet rather than scratch, but I added a few leaves of organic baby spinach. Probably not enough to count as a serving, but it was very good anyway. I ate it before I thought about taking pictures, but it's just soup so it's not important. I also bought some other veggies to try out in different recipes, so I'll probably have more to say in a few days.

Incidentally, the hard plastic package that the spinach came in was made from corn, instead of oil byproducts. This is exactly what we need to be doing right now as a country.

Curry!

2007-08-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

Tempeh, peppers, and carrots

Sweet potato or yam?

2007-08-20T12:07:00.000-07:00

How can you tell?

2007-08-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

Test

2007-08-19T13:42:00.001-07:00

Test

OK another hiccup, and the reason I got so mad the first time I tried this. I posted a test text from my phone, and it posted fine. I then tried to post a pic and my phone gave me an "invalid address" error. After a call to Verizon support a very helpful operator told me he had to change a setting on my phone and directed me to do the over the air reprogramming thing. I was then able to send a pic from my phone, but it never showed up on my blog, and again it gave me a claim token, essentially starting the whole process over again. I had flashbacks to trying to do this last year but I kept at it. I went back through the whole process and it is now working. I'm not sure if reprogramming my phone was causing the problem or what. I assume it screwed up Blogger's "caller id" or something, because it was treating my txt as if it were from a new user. Anyway, enough housekeeping, let's start mobile blogging!!!

2007-08-19T13:36:00.000-07:00

My cat sqeaky. This is an old pic so it's not exactly a good example of cutting edge mobile blogging.

Moblogging!!!

2007-08-19T12:59:00.001-07:00

OK so a long time ago I wrote about mobile blogging, or moblogging as it's called. I was all excited about being able to post blogs from my cellphone. Then I tried it and got blogged down in the details, and finally gave up in disgust after I thought that each time you send something from your phone you have to log onto the blogger website and enter a code to claim it and link it to your blog. As it turns out, I skipped a step somehow. How it's supposed to work is the FIRST TIME you do that, you have to log on and claim it (thereby linking your phone # with your blog) and then all subsequent pxt/txt that is sent from your phone automatically goes to your blog. That step was never explained originally, and I think they updated the process to automatically give you that ability later. Or it could be that I was doing it from a library computer, so it somehow it blocked that secure portion of the website. Long story short, it's now working fine.

Which means I can now link my love of outdoor adventure with the love of blogging.

Out with the old

2007-08-19T12:34:00.001-07:00

I've been neglecting this blog for a while because I had nothing to say. Well I'm back. I broke up with one girl, got back with another girl, then broke up again (technically we didn't so much break up as she once again is moving away). As of this week I'm single once again. The good news is it looks like I'll be getting full time custody of my cat, which is pretty exciting. I'm concerned about how well she'll get along with the dog and 2 cats that are here, since they are pretty docile and Squeaky likes to play pretty rough with other cats. Plus she hasn't really been an indoor cat in a while. Nor has she been around many other people.

I'm hoping to do more pictures and videos, but we'll see how long that lasts.