I had Animal Style fries at in-n-out. Wonderful. Clay, tell snap, crackle and pop that they were right!

2 jars cucumbers, carrots and onions Slice produce and cram into jars. About when they are half-full is when you want to slip the fresh dill into the sides with a butter knife or something. This time I sliced the onion across the midsection (so each slice has like 10 concentric rings) but left the slices in slice form rather than popping out the individual rings. These take up less space when crammed in the jar and you can cram in more food. Usually a single-batch recipe is enough brine to cover the produce crammed into a 1-liter jar. A double-batch of brine solution is enough for 2 1L jars. The 2X version consisted of:

[Gaming filter: If you’re reading this, you have indicated an interest in joining my next D&D 3e game.] I would like to hold a character generation session this coming weekend. Our plans for this weekend are pretty open, so if you can drop in anytime Saturday or Sunday that would work. If you can come and spend 4 hours, that would be great, though 2 hours would probably work if you’re in a rush. We will provide either lunch or dinner as appropriate. ...

We want to go somewhere on vacation where we can relax and perhaps do some stargazing. Therefore I want to find somewhere that is flat, dark, and has clear weather in August or September. We were thinking about Sedona, AZ. Is anyone familiar with the area, enough to comment? Is there a good chance that the weather will be mostly clear in August, or September? Is it a good place to spend a week’s worth of vacation? Any other places we should consider? (Would be nice if it were in driving distance of silicon valley CA) ...

Exercise log for June Wed 6/1: Thu 6/2: Fri 6/3: Sat 6/4: Sun 6/5: Mon 6/6: Tue 6/7: Wed 6/8: Thu 6/9: Fri 6/10: Sat 6/11: Sun 6/12: Mon 6/13: Tue 6/14: Wed 6/15: Thu 6/16: Fri 6/17: Sat 6/18: Sun 6/19: Mon 6/20: walking 10 min, chest dumbell 25# 3x10, chest press 85# 3x10, jack, flutter, dolly, crunches 15 min Tue 6/21: Wed 6/22: elliptical 6m, treadmill 10m, bicep dumbell 20# 3x10, bicep ezbar 55# x15, tricep dumbell 10# 2x10, tricep rope pulldown 60# 3x8, overhead rope pulldown 60# 3x8, jack, flutter, dolly, mixed crunches. wt 256. Thu 6/23: Fri 6/24: treadmill, free weights (shoulders and back), calisthenics Sat 6/25: Sun 6/26: Mon 6/27: treadmill, free weights (chest), calisthenics Tue 6/28: Wed 6/29: treadmill, free weights (bicep/tricep), calisthenics Thu 6/30:

Are any of you interested in the following deals? \* Orlando: 3 nights for $69 \* Las Vegas: 2 nights for $89 \* Waikiki: 4 nights for $699 Fair warning: The catch is that you have to attend a timeshare sales presentation (2 hours). The timeshare is a nice one, M and I have been happy with ours, it’s very flexible and tradeable and the rooms are very high-quality. Email me if you’re interested…

[Note: as of this writing, Greg is still unable to kill selected Wisconsin residents with the power of his mind.] Monday More information on this outage. According to the log, it looks like the dhcp service stopped running about 21:37. I think I figured out why the service stopped. The logs show a login as “root” from “maintain” at 21:30, a few minutes before the outage. This root session is still open as of this email. Additionally, there is a log file in /home/[username redacted] showing whether the daemon is running and who is logged in once per minute, and that file starts at the same time as the outage. ...

As mentioned before, Miche and I are hosting an Ice Cream Social here at our place today between 2pm and 6pm. If you are in the area, please feel free to come by. Drop in any time in that range, stay as short or as long as you want. Directions are here: click me. (Posting this for folks on my friends list who I believe I have actually met in person at least once. If you are reading this, you’re invited!) ...

OK, I have gone a bit crazy with the new Ice Cream Machine and have made far more ice cream than I think I can eat. As a result, Miche and I would like to throw an Ice Cream Social here at our place this coming Saturday. If you are in the area (or might be on Saturday) feel free to come by. I’m thinking it will probably be Saturday afternoon between 2pm and 6pm. Drop in any time in that range, stay as short or as long as you want. Watch this space for directions: OK directions are here: click me. ...

Total number of books I’ve owned? Probably fewer than 50, most of them game books. Count comics and I’m pushing close to 100. But Miche’s collection, that’s another story, probably 1000+. I don’t tend to collect books unless they were especially meaningful. The last book I bought? I think it was First Things First, an audiobook in the Seven Habits series. The last book I read?Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. It is an excellent read, and I recommend it for anyone and everyone. It combines the best of getting organized, self-help, and having rewarding interpersonal relationships. It combines a lot of stuff I already knew, and a few things I didn’t, and makes a lot of great ideas work well together/complement each other. If it’s true that there is nothing new under the sun, this is at least a new way of looking at and organizing a number of timeless and valuable principles. 5 books that mean a lot to me: Split Infinity by Piers Anthony: Read this when I was in high school, and the main character Stile became my hero for many years, and still is in many ways. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey: see above :) Perl for System Administration by Blank/Edelman via O’Reilly Dungeon Master’s Guide and Players Handbook by Gygax et al 5) Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their ljs I’m choosing 5 random users who are unlikely to ever read this: weejay, cflam, meddle_84, sofawawayfromu, and baby_cakes24. Is that cheating? I don’t know :)