effloresce and deliquesce

Home Again

2007-07-19T00:54:40Z

Arrived back in Seattle this afternoon. I was supposed to be back yesterday, but I missed my connecting flight home by a mere five minutes, thanks to both the lateness of my flight out of Beirut and the idiotically complex transportation system a...

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Greetings from Hamra

2007-07-11T19:52:34Z

I finally landed in Beirut last night, after a 20+ hour journey from SF through Paris to here. It's the longest and farthest I've ever traveled. M picked me up at the airport, where I breezed through customs (no questions, even). We decided to...

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Beirut-bound

2007-07-09T08:42:45Z

In just over twelve hours I'll be on a plane headed to Paris, where I'll briefly stop before continuing on my journey to Beirut, Lebanon. A number of friends, co-workers and family have wondered why the heck I'm traveling to Beirut, with the fal...

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Hail Caesar!

2007-07-02T18:43:58Z

In a quest to finish up the two large heads of lettuce I received in my organic farm share box this past week, I am about to have my third Caesar salad in as many days. Even though technically they aren't Caesar salads (I am using green and red le...

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Switched On

2007-05-28T07:59:13Z

It only took, oh... a little over three years, but I finally got all of the old knob and tube wiring in my 1940s house removed and/or deactivated. The actual work only took about a week, and I got all the modern amenities on my wish list in the...

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Microwaving != Cooking

2007-02-21T09:37:40Z

There was an interview with the CEO of Kraft Foods in yesterday's Wall Street Journal that I found both hilarious and depressing. Here's a choice excerpt: WSJ: Do people still want to cook? Ms. Rosenfeld: A lot of people consider microwaving...

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The No Sell

2007-02-08T08:35:31Z

An update on the you-are-a-winner situation: After doing a little research, including reading everything on this very informative FTC page, we decided to take a pass on the Fabulous! Prizes! and not subject ourselves to what was sure to be a hig...

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QotD: I Was The Sous Chef

2007-02-08T08:29:42Z

Who taught you how to cook? Submitted by Donna. I don't remember ever being explicitly taught to cook, though I certainly absorbed all of the basics from my mother. She cooked dinner from scratch for our family almost every night. And around t...

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Win! Instantly!

2007-02-06T23:41:31Z

On Saturday, Josh and I went to the Southcenter Mall so I could use up a couple of gift cards I'd received for Christmas. On our way out, we ran into one of those mall contest displays in the median strip, the primary feature of which was a spiff...

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Knock Three Times

2006-12-07T02:05:00Z

While working from home has its obvious perks -- not having to dress up, mid-day thrifting runs, actually being home when the UPS guy stops by -- I do have to put up with some annoyances. The most frequent one recently has been door-to-door solic...

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