Miche and I had a fight tonight. It started with her saying she didn’t really want to do (some activity we’d agreed to do that was important to me) because of a stomach ache, and I said “No I don’t feel that’s OK, I feel like you broke a promise to me”. She felt I was overreacting and ended up leaving the house. She sent me a text message an hour later asking to be picked up from the Safeway. She doesn’t seem to be angry now, just tired and a bit out of it. I said I was sorry for overreacting and for not telling her how important (activity) was to me.

I got a new keyboard. Yes, those are blank keycaps. Yes, it’s quite interesting to type completely without looking, especially passwords. I actually do fine on just straight letters, but I seem to look down a lot for control, numberkeys, etc.

We had a lovely dinner at La Pastaia with da_zhuang attending. Everything was delightful. Highly recommend it. I haven’t updated in a while, but the short update is that I took a week off, got a fair bit done to prepare for kitchen work, and am now back to work and killing more spammers. I’m still not allowed to kill them with my claw hammer, but killing them just the same. ...

This is a test of proportional-representation style voting: Pizza Toppings Election. Feel free to vote if you’re interested in seeing (useless) democracy in action. Like the Green Party, there won’t actually be pizza, just a vote about one.

This week, I got caught up on a number of things at work. I feel sort of accomplished. I also made eggnog, ice cream, and eggnog ice cream, for the company potluck. And I also made about 25 cups of green tea and passed it out to people. Fun fun fun! Today I made about a gallon more eggnog (4x alton’s recipe). I found egg whites in a carton, but unfortunately they don’t whip up like real egg whites. I stupidly didn’t read the carton, where it says “This product doesn’t whip up like egg whites”. They were right. I am not sure whether to whip up some raw egg whites, or just leave the recipe alone. It seems to be fine on its own, just not as light and fluffy. The eggnog was a hit at the potluck, but the next potluck on Thursday I’m entering my nog to compete against three others in a “nog-off”. So, if I can find pasteurized egg whites specifically for whipping, I can make that, otherwise I’ll probably leave it in its current custardy state. ...

This week I exercised three days for 1 hr each, for a total of 180 min. I may do some more today, more likely not. This meets my “bare minimum” which is 150, the equivalent of 30 min for 5 days, but doesn’t get to my next goal of 210 min. I have been a bit careless with both diet and exercise the last couple weeks. Right at this moment I am at 257.6, so that means I have slipped by 5 or 6 pounds. I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to diet, hoping that putting time into exercise would negate the need for it, but I know I really need to do both in order to get to my weight goal. I will keep up the cardio and try to watch portion sizes a little bit for the next couple weeks.

I made Alton’s Eggnog, and it came out pretty good, at least better than the store-bought stuff I think. Ingredients are: Milk, cream, eggs, sugar, and 3 oz. Maker’s Mark. And, freshly grated nutmeg. (let’s see, 3 oz x 90 proof / 1 qt total equals…) It came out to 4% alcohol for the finished product, which is (I think) about as much as a beer. Also, before starting I stopped at Bevmo and got tiny versions of both Maker’s Mark and Wild Turkey, and I did a side-by-side taste test of just bourbon and milk. The Maker’s Mark was a higher proof, but I didn’t taste the alcohol nearly as much, so it was the winner of the taste test (and I then went and bought a proper-sized container of it :) ...

Allow web server to execute the temp firewall script with no passwd. In /etc/sudoers apache ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/local/adm/firewall/add_temp.pl Adjust your firewall script (that you use on startup) to allow a “temporary” table which is consulted for input. Also remove ssh so that it is not allowed by default.

Exercise log for December Thu 12/1: no Fri 12/2: no Sat 12/3: exercise bike, 60 min, 16.25 miles Sun 12/4: no Mon 12/5: exercise bike, 60 min, 16.25 miles Tue 12/6: no Wed 12/7: exercise bike, 60 min, 16.25 miles Thu 12/8: no Fri 12/9: no Sat 12/10: exercise bike, 60 min, 16.25 miles Sun 12/11: no Mon 12/12: no Tue 12/13: no Wed 12/14: no Thu 12/15: no Fri 12/16: exercise bike, 60 min, 15 miles Sat 12/17: exercise bike, 60 min, 15 miles Sun 12/18: exercise bike, 60 min, 15 miles Mon 12/19: no Tue 12/20: no Wed 12/21: no Thu 12/22: no Fri 12/23: no Sat 12/24: no Sun 12/25: no Mon 12/26: sick Tue 12/27: sick Wed 12/28: sick Thu 12/29: sick Fri 12/30: sick Sat 12/31: sick

I found this once before but I had trouble finding it again. It doesn’t seem to be on the Site Map. There is a module for it in MyLJ though. Anyway, if you think you might have missed some comment emails, check out Recent Comments. It should show all the comments made in your journal. It doesn’t show comments responding to your comments elsewhere, but if you scroll down, it does show *your* comments elsewhere, and you can visit the more recent ones to see the resulting thread.