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This was posted as a reply in a friend’s journal and I wanted to save it for myself.

After a hiatus, the Workout log has returned. Let’s see if I can keep this up. I haven’t had much exercise at all since October. Mon 7/21: Bike, 45 min, 9.37 miles Tue 7/22: Bike, 45 min, 9.60 miles, wt. 265 Wed 7/23: Bike, 45 mim, 10 miles Thu 7/24: Bike, 45 min, 10 miles Fri 7/25: No Sat 7/26: No Sun 7/27: Bike, 35 min, 6 miles Mon 7/28: Bike, 50 min, 10 miles Tue 7/29: No Wed 7/30: Walking, 30 min Thu 7/31: Bike, 45 min, 10 miles

Friday: not much going on. Don’t remember what we did for dinner. Hmm. I think we gave the cats their doses of Advantage. Saturday: Emptied out the trunk of the car, which previously contained 5 12-packs of pepsi, bag of something from Walgreen’s, laptop for my mom, 2 pillows, and empty bottle which previously held pre-diluted radiator fluid. The trunk now contains only 3 sheet sets from Bed Bath and Beyond, a trivet or something, and a video card. We also managed to get most of the crap off the balcony (mostly leaves and dirt, but also a rug, some chicken wire, screws, remains of the window I pushed out to install the AC, and a couple other things I can’t remember. ...

Ok, my favorite cooking show is still Good Eats. But, if you like Good Eats, and have temporarily run out of episodes, check out Deep Fried Live. The host is an octopus, the show is a cartoon, but the recipes and advice are real. Pretty funny! If you haven’t seen Good Eats yet, do it! If you like Good Eats, be sure to check out Alton Brown’s own site Alton Brown.com for some more tips, rants and raves, etc. Worth it for the cool pictures of him if nothing else.

Why am I pickle crazy, you ask? Well, I am just all around crazy, but that you know. Mostly it is because I finally found something I can make for myself relatively easily and cheaply and is a non-fat low-calorie snack that I will actually eat. I took pickles to work last week and had them Thursday, Friday and Monday for lunch (or something like that)… Here is a link to the previous recipe. Those are all gone now. (Note the previous Dill the 4th recipe makes enough for 1 and 1/2 jars :) ...

A quick review of this week. Went to the vet on Monday, went to Sacramento on Wednesday, gods, it was hot enough to melt my deodorant, had a lot of good meetings with sysadmins, came back on Thursday, and didn’t do much at all on Friday. There. Friday afternoon, went shopping, had mashed potatoes, brown gravy, and hamburger meat. Sounds strange but it was good… a comfort food. Saturday, drove up to see M’s family in Healdsburg. Got to see E (cousin J’s new wife) and a tiny baby, might be the youngest baby I’ve seen in real life. Babies are so helpless… I think humans must be unique in surviving so well, compared to how helpless we are as infants. Also damn hot in the North Bay too. ...

After some discussion on today, I added a couple of friends to my list. Just some folks who I thought it would be interesting to keep track of, either because we seem to be of like mind, or because we disagreed but were friendly about it :) The new additions are in the Fuschia category because of connection via the polyamory community.

Downstairs neighbor finally moved out! The new tenant says she is renting the place and will buy it as soon as she gets the loan figured out. Excellent! For those of you new to this journal, downstairs neighbor was a pain in the ass for quite a while, both making noise and also turning around and complaining about me after I had complained about him. Kind of an angry, bitter guy. Oh well, hopefully he will find something or somewhere that makes him happy. Having a new neighbor definitely makes me happy.

Friday: Did laundry. Lazy day. Went to the 7-11 for some ice cream. Watched fireworks out the window. Reassured kitties that everything was OK. Saturday: Made pickled eggs using something similar to this recipe: 12 hard boiled eggs, peeled (make that 7) 1 T salt 1 1/2 C cider vinegar (make that 1C cider v. + 1/2 C wine v.) 1/2 C water 1 1/2 tsp. sugar 1 tsp. white peppercorns, crushed (make that 1 tsp crushed + 1 tsp whole black pepper) 1/2 tsp. crushed allspice (make that 1 tsp pickling spice) 1/2 tsp. ground turmeric (skipped) 1/4 tsp. celery seeds (skipped) 2 shallots, thinly sliced (skipped) ...

Spamassassin seems to still be working well. Once in a while (like once a day) I get a spam that slips through the net… then I go to the spam folder and see another 8 more that were caught. Nice. Anyway, I’m saving the statistics below for my future reference. After collecting 552 spams and 1053 not-spams, I erased the cache of learned messages, re-learned them all, then reprocessed them all as incoming. The spam was all at Bayes_70 and up and the good stuff was all at Bayes_30 and below (apart from one bounce from a spammer, bayes_44). Not surprisingly, after learning the target set, Bayes became quite good at processing the same set :) ...