Day 160-2

10 mins on the treadmill and 10 mins on the bike and reps on the machine.  Nice.  It wasn't terribly crowded and the usual suspects were all accounted for.

We've had a couple of very unusual muggy days and the muggy has crept into the gym.  Tija was working the fans - all of them on high and strategically placed around so it wasn't horrible.  We'll be back to good weather after Labor Day and I'll be grateful. 

My audio books are great except you can't thumb through the first 50 pages and get a flavor to know whether or not you want to commit.  I've started two in the past week that I just couldn't stick with.  Today I started one by an old favorite Lee Child.  I was hooked from the first minute and it's a 12 hour book.  Nice to know I've got good listening for days to come. 

Day 160-2

10 mins on the treadmill and 10 mins on the bike and reps on the machine.  Nice.  It wasn't terribly crowded and the usual suspects were all accounted for.

We've had a couple of very unusual muggy days and the muggy has crept into the gym.  Tija was working the fans - all of them on high and strategically placed around so it wasn't horrible.  We'll be back to good weather after Labor Day and I'll be grateful. 

My audio books are great except you can't thumb through the first 50 pages and get a flavor to know whether or not you want to commit.  I've started two in the past week that I just couldn't stick with.  Today I started one by an old favorite Lee Child.  I was hooked from the first minute and it's a 12 hour book.  Nice to know I've got good listening for days to come. 

launch... kinda

Well, the website went live... secretly.  None of the pointers point to it and none of the old pages are redirected to it yet and none of the simplified URLs work yet - all that will come tomorrow. BUT the meat and the potatoes and pages and functionality all up and working and beatimous.  I did not write any of the copy, do any of the design or the artwork and did not build out most of the functionality.  Wonder what in the fuck I've been doing??!!  Just goes to show how complicated this web stuff has gotten - especially when you are working on a site that easily has several million pages if not more... (I'll let you peek but you can't tell anyone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx).

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I totally forgot the Mariner game was at 10 this morning!  Radio only.  I only remembered in the 7th.  The first inning, apparently, was a massacre with the Mariners being the victim... so I'm kind of glad I missed it.  They have recovered a bit but not much and probably not enough. 

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My tomato jones is growing to epic proportions.  East coast tomatoes grown in that hot humid sun in good soil - big boys, particularly - are so good that you want to crawl in and live there for a long time.  I always considered them the reward for living through another summer.  Here on the west coast, we don't get that good hot humid sun.  I'm pretty sure the grocery store tomatoes come from Chili or somewhere anyway.  And produce stands with locally grown tomatoes just never quite get it either.  (And, frankly, many back yard lovingly grown specimens around here aren't that tasty.)

But having spouted all that holier than tomato thou prejudice, I have found that the tomatoes at the farmers market (Columbia City) do actually come close to tasting very very very good. 

Today I am going to get me some.  More than I can eat.  The farmers market has been going on every Wednesday all summer long and I have gotten there exactly once.  And I'm going to get string beans for dipping and, hopefully, some luscious baked good.

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Then I'll come home and put everything away and probably go out to dinner with Sherry and Lee.

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I just got a maintenance warning/notice from the ISP that I'm sure I'm going to have to meet in court eventually.  Crap.  Oh well, Dear Stupid ISP note to follow... 

launch... kinda

Well, the website went live... secretly.  None of the pointers point to it and none of the old pages are redirected to it yet and none of the simplified URLs work yet - all that will come tomorrow. BUT the meat and the potatoes and pages and functionality all up and working and beatimous.  I did not write any of the copy, do any of the design or the artwork and did not build out most of the functionality.  Wonder what in the fuck I've been doing??!!  Just goes to show how complicated this web stuff has gotten - especially when you are working on a site that easily has several million pages if not more... (I'll let you peek but you can't tell anyone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx).

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I totally forgot the Mariner game was at 10 this morning!  Radio only.  I only remembered in the 7th.  The first inning, apparently, was a massacre with the Mariners being the victim... so I'm kind of glad I missed it.  They have recovered a bit but not much and probably not enough. 

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My tomato jones is growing to epic proportions.  East coast tomatoes grown in that hot humid sun in good soil - big boys, particularly - are so good that you want to crawl in and live there for a long time.  I always considered them the reward for living through another summer.  Here on the west coast, we don't get that good hot humid sun.  I'm pretty sure the grocery store tomatoes come from Chili or somewhere anyway.  And produce stands with locally grown tomatoes just never quite get it either.  (And, frankly, many back yard lovingly grown specimens around here aren't that tasty.)

But having spouted all that holier than tomato thou prejudice, I have found that the tomatoes at the farmers market (Columbia City) do actually come close to tasting very very very good. 

Today I am going to get me some.  More than I can eat.  The farmers market has been going on every Wednesday all summer long and I have gotten there exactly once.  And I'm going to get string beans for dipping and, hopefully, some luscious baked good.

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Then I'll come home and put everything away and probably go out to dinner with Sherry and Lee.

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I just got a maintenance warning/notice from the ISP that I'm sure I'm going to have to meet in court eventually.  Crap.  Oh well, Dear Stupid ISP note to follow... 

We have tomatoes!!!

It was not an easy trip but at least productive.  I got lots of tomatoes, and beans (sting chill and dip, yum), radishes and fresh basil to make seattlejo's wonderful sounding recipe.

The only other time I've been to this farmer's market was on July 4.  There was no problem at all finding it and there was easy parking.  Not so today.  If I hadn't found it before, I'm not sure I could and the traffic was horrible and there was no parking.  One of the traffic problems was caused by the tow trucks towing people who tried to get creative in their parking.   And it was hot.

But, I was there and I got my stuff.  And I'm happy.

Then I stopped at Safeway and got the ricotta - I've got the other ingredients.  Tomorrow for lunch there will likely be Instant Tomato-Ricotta ‘Soup’ With Capers!  Or a blt or a tomato and mayo sandwich or a tomato with salt over the sink!

All is good.  And Sherry and Lee will be here in a minute to pick me up for dinner.

We have tomatoes!!!

It was not an easy trip but at least productive.  I got lots of tomatoes, and beans (sting chill and dip, yum), radishes and fresh basil to make seattlejo's wonderful sounding recipe.

The only other time I've been to this farmer's market was on July 4.  There was no problem at all finding it and there was easy parking.  Not so today.  If I hadn't found it before, I'm not sure I could and the traffic was horrible and there was no parking.  One of the traffic problems was caused by the tow trucks towing people who tried to get creative in their parking.   And it was hot.

But, I was there and I got my stuff.  And I'm happy.

Then I stopped at Safeway and got the ricotta - I've got the other ingredients.  Tomorrow for lunch there will likely be Instant Tomato-Ricotta ‘Soup’ With Capers!  Or a blt or a tomato and mayo sandwich or a tomato with salt over the sink!

All is good.  And Sherry and Lee will be here in a minute to pick me up for dinner.