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AUGUST 2003 AUGUST
29, 2003 : friday
AUGUST
26, 2003 : tuesday
I've
been contemplating the mystery of organization lately. So far, i've
determined that containers, consolidation and categories play a
big part. Each thing 'X' should be with all the other thing 'X's
and all those should be in a box labeled "THING Xs." You following?
Umm...that would be none. Okay. Yep.
AUGUST
24, 2003 : sunday
I
purchased a KOLO photo
album this weekend for a special project that i'm working on. There
are so many different kinds of books and I had been looking all
over. ( and when i say different, i mean 'UGLY') The Kolo ones are
by far the coolest and so i guess there wasn't much of a contest.
I wanted something simple, plain and classy. When I saw that you
can buy protective sleeves for your KOLO album, the deal was sealed.
I bought the Newport
in black with black pages, 8.5 x 11. Of course, they were out of
the sleeves for that size, so i'm going to visit the other Aaron
Brothers store and see if they can come through for me. Of places
where i've found the Kolo stuff, Aaron
Brothers by far has the most inventory.
AUGUST 22, 2003 : friday
Have a great weekend!
AUGUST 19, 2003 : tuesday
> I made a really tasty dinner tonight. I had been wanting to
cook with fennel
for about the last 8 months and just hadn't gotten to
it. Its pretty typical for me to think about something that long
before i get around to making it. One day when I have lots of time
on my hands, i will do lots of cooking and baking. Anyway, I first
had fennel in a yummy salad and then grilled with octopus. I found
a recipe on Foodtv for Fennel, Sweet Sausage, Farfalle Pasta. On
it, was a dijon/olive oil sauce. Great combination of flavors. NOTE: Edamame means 'beans on a branch'
AUGUST 17, 2003 : sunday > 4 months from today, Lord of the Rings Part Three will be released to theaters. A few weeks later when the crowd dies down, we will go and see it. I will make a big dish of lasagna with garlic bread and we will eat like pigs and then go to the movie. It's going to be a great night. > we bought some wild swedish cranberry jam today at world market. Its pretty good but not overwhelmingly cranberryish. I'm going to be on the lookout for another brand of the same thing. I was thinking, though, i should just make some more fresh cranberry sauce which is essentially the same as jam...fruit and sugar.
AUGUST 14, 2003 : thursday
AUGUST 13, 2003 : wednesday
AUGUST 11, 2003 : monday
AUGUST 10, 2003 : sunday > My three day weekend is just about up. Somewhere between assembling 2 ikea dressers and a bookshelf and moving stuff to make room for the new dressers and bookshelf, the hours have dwindled and all that's left is sunday night dinner. Porkchops, corn on cob, rolls, cheese rice, cinnamon apples. I made vegetable meat soup for my lunches this week.. I'll have to finish relaxing tomorrow night.
AUGUST 8, 2003 : friday > Saw Pirate movie last night and really enjoyed it. > Took today off. Just did a bad painting and I need to eat some lunch. It's too hot to go anywhere. I need to clean the kitchen so that I can make some food. >
Went on about 9 press checks this week. More than in my entire design
career. Being on the print shop floor is fun. It's noisy and it
stinks and there's big equipment and piles and piles of printed
paper everywhere. Sheets of paper are flying through presses at
9,000 sheets an hour. Things are being printed, folded, cartoned,
stitched, moved, trimmed, checked, shipped. Its a moving system
that runs 24/7.
AUGUST 6, 2003 : wednesday
Enough about Kobe, let's talk about a creepy song that I am hearing
on the radio (this would fall under the 'pop' genre). The song is
"Stacy's
Mom" by Fountain of Wayne. The jist of the song is that the
guy singer thinks stacy's mom has (you guessed it) "got it goin
on."
AUGUST 5, 2003 : tuesday
Snail found this website
of illustrations. Love this one,
and this one
and this one.
AUGUST 3, 2003 : sunday
Course Two: Snow Crab and Asparagus Tempura. The asparagus was good and the crab was so sweet and yummy that I never wanted it to leave my mouth. Perfect.
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Our fifth course: two peices of chu toro (medium-fatty tuna). We learned that there are a few choice grades of toro.
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For dessert we had (reading from the menu) Valrhona chocolate and wasabi fondant with raspberry-hibiscus coulis and five spice tuile. Normally, we go somewhere different for dessert primarily just to change up the scenery. But, since things were going really well and we spotted something interesting on the menu, we decided to stay. I had heard on the food network about a dessert sauce which combined chocolate with something hot like chili peppers. I had been really curious to try those flavors and that night, i had my chance. If I had any suggestions for this dish, i would skip the raspberry sauce and go with just fresh berries. I really love the simple flavor and contrast in texture of real fruit with chocolate. You have the complexity of the chocolate flavor matched up with the juicy sweetness of a berry. Anyway, the wasabi and chocolate were perfect together, and that chewy crispy thing was a nice complement.
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One day, i really want my own personal sink. It would be deep and
squarish. Not as high as a counter sink. On the floor, like a tub.
With a stool next to it. There are many things I would use it for:
cleaning up paint stuff, doing my hand-washables, rinsing out whatever,
washing my feet in the summer when they feel dirty from wearing
sandals, rinsing my feet under hot water in the winter when my feet
are cold and so on. Currently i use the tub for these things but
the tub faucet is right next to the toilet, rendering the whole
situation awkwardly inaccessible. You have to cram yourself up in
there to get anything done with your body contorted one way, sitting
on the edge, and your head and hands twisted toward the faucet.
It's a poorly designed situation.
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On a photo-related note, i would like to recomment a product called
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One of my favorite candies are Bob's Sweet Stripes. I can't recall
where I first had them, but they are melty, minty + delicious. For
a while they were impossible to find and Wal-mart was the only place
that had them. One time I took my car to a mechanic, who had the
sweet stripes sitting out on the counter and i knew that my car
was in good hands. Nowadays, they are readily available at Walgreens.
I'm not particularly into minty things like mint ice cream or minty
chocolate. But, the stripes rule. Go out and get your sweet stripes
on!)
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Some friends are going to see Rosemary's Baby this weekend at the
old theater. There are a few movies that i've make a point to not
see and that is one of them. Deliverance and the Exorcist are included
in that category also. I like the idea of being scared by a skilled
peice of filmmaking, but ultimately i am afraid of being weirded
out and not being able to undo it. When i was 13 or 14ish, we watched
movies at a church lock-in. Among those were Children of the Corn,
Alien + Psycho (give that youth director a raise!). Anyhow, i guess
that corn kids movie was the first scariest thing i'd seen and it
definitely did more damage to me than Psycho. Many years later,
living in my own apartment, I watched an episode of Dateline that
was responsible for many uneasy nights of sleeping to come. It had
something to do with a woman being put in a trunk for several days.
To this day, i do not care to watch those real life drama stories.
The scariest dream i ever had as a kid (and you'll think i'm making
this up) was me at twilight being chased through a swampy area thick
with trees (we lived right by such an area). Anyway, in this dream
I am running through this area and trying to get to a peice of strawberry
pie with all my might. I have no specifics on who was chasing me.
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