Month: July 2009

I had a busy, productive day at work today.  It’s hard to take a picture of software, or of the design or implementation thereof.  And the weather is more like April than July today, so there’s not a lot of photo opportunity outside.  I made a yummy but not particularly attractive dinner.

But Winnie is awfully photogenic.  And thus Project 365 lives for one more day.

A couple of my coworkers are in a band.  A while back, I saw an article on Slashdot about a way to get your CDs listed on Amazon.com, and shared it with them.  Well today, Jay handed me a copy of their new CD as thanks.

Break a leg, guys!

Lis and I went for a bike ride today, along the Charles down to Watertown Square.  On the way back, we passed this sign.

The bath fan is in and functional.  We can paint now — the green bathroom will soon be green in name only.

My Saturday plan: finish up installing the exhaust fan in our green bathroom.  There’s not room for a 3-gang electrical box (for fan, main light, and nightlight) in the chosen location, so I found a double switch.  I think the Decora version here looks much better than the toggle variety.

On this, the hottest & muggiest day of the season thus far, I present the perfect margarita in the making:

Juice of 1 lime
1/2 shot agave nectar
2 shots tequila
3 small cubes ice
Coarse salt

Juice the lime.  Rub the rim of your fancy glass with the spent lime, and stick some salt to it.
Put the liquids & the ice into a cocktail shaker and give it a good knock-around.
Pour into the glass and enjoy.

We are going to have the floors redone in our house.  The carpet is driving us mad with allergies.  This sample board shows our choices in stain colors in this particular product — thin prefinished oak tongue & groove boards, 5/16″ thick so as to go down in place of carpet and be about the same thickness.

I like to drink tea at work.  It makes me less jittery than coffee, and comes in a wider variety of flavors.  Last week I ordered some new teas, both replacements for stuff I had run out of, and a new flavor; the order arrived today.  I prefer green & oolong teas in the summertime.  The tea pictured here is called “gunpowder” for its appearance — it is a green tea, the individual leaves tightly rolled for better shelf life.  It unfurls when you steep it.

One of the goals of installing a range hood in the kitchen is so that I can stir fry again.  I am happy to say that the new microwave/hood works fine for this.

We went out to dinner with Kat & Bob tonight on Moody St.  The evening weather was so excellent that they called us up and suggested we find someplace outside to eat.