weekend eventfulness
Sep. 15th, 2008 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
2eclipsefriday was great big sea.
and they were fantastic. well worth the 2 hours i sat in traffic and scrambled to find parking
to get the tickets. the scrim was ugly. the lighting was terrible. the sound guy had no clue
what he was doing and you could barely hear the harmonies.
they did a lot of stuff off their new album, fortune's favor, that i frankly think is crap.
the only whiskey being sold was jack.
and it was still a fantastic show.
it says a lot when a band can do that.
also one of the new t-shirts for them has a big octopus on it. tentacles FTW!
ross didn't have as good a time as i did, cuz he wasn't feeling very well. but i think he was
glad he went.
susan and her friend will and salsa and another feste we knew(but who's name i can't
recall) were there as well.
mostly it was a relaxing weekend for me. not-so-much for ross, as he was working on setting up
a triple-boot on his new work-laptop.
we picked up my car (new front tires, front-end alignment) from the shop. i need new brakes
and my rotors checked, but as it rained pretty much all weekend, that wasn't about to happen.
i talked to the cat lady on friday and found out that they are getting their last shots this coming saturday. i can pick up our kitten monday!!!
i also made ketchup.
from scratch.
myra sent us the tomatoes from her garden. romas work great for this because they are almost
all meat and have less juice. i boiled them enough to peel them thursday night and stuck them
in the fridge til saturday.
saturday i got a red pepper chopped half of it and half an onion. added them to the tomatoes
and boiled the lot til the tomatoes were tender. you'd think tomatoes would already be tender-
especially given that they had to be boiled to get the skins off!
it actually took quite a bit of boiling to get them all soft.
then everything got pureed in the blender and cooked down, spices, sugar, salt and vinegar added,
then cooked down some more.
the end result is potent. imagine the taste of ketchup and then increase it by 4 and that's about
what this is. i got 3.5 jars worth(pint sized)...which is plenty for ross and i. it's not like ketchup is
something you can give away if you have too much of it. it's not a gift sort of thing.
but i am very pleased to have just that much less HFCS in my diet.
and i'm guessing this will make killer cocktail sauce (add hot sauce and horseradish).
ross fixed my computer in addition to his laptop, and set me up with a new install of ubuntu, which
neither of us have ever used before. so far i am very pleased. i am going to be able to finish my letter
for my dad now. it's fast. and there are programs for
everything (typicaly linux). and there are even some podcasts out there to help me learn to use it.
which i am going to have to learn VERY SOON. the one problem is podcasts. there is a simple program
out there for managing ipods that works just fine. and there are many podcatchers to choose from.
i have 2 installed at the moment, which is probably overkill.
the problem is that the podcatchers i can find are ALL RUN THROUGH THE COMMANDLINE. and i am VERY
limited in my knowledge of linux commands. like i know how to find man pages and see lists of things.
i know how to change directories - VERY BASIC. so i have to learn how to use the commandline to manage
my podcasts and that is going to be a serious challenge. i actually LIKE working in a text-based system
as opposed to a GUI. it feels like i'm more involved with the computer in a direct way. kinda like driving
stick over automatic. but this is going to be a big learning experience for me all the same. and
ross can't help me much, because this flavor of linux is as new to him as it is to me - and he doesn't
care much about podcasts, so that isn't where he's going to be focused on learning.
the thing that really sucks is that he thought i was going to be able to go back and forth between windows
and linux with my ipod. that is definitely not the case. not only that, but trying to do so wiped everything
on my ipod again, so i am music-less at work until i figure this out.
as a result, i am highly motivated.
the rest of the weekend was mostly spent relaxing, staying up too late reading, and watching sopranos episodes
with ross (while he worked on his laptop and i knit or spun).
i have started a new pair of fawkes socks (named for dumbledore's phoenix). they have been waiting to be knit
for a while. the yarn (fleece artist *swoons*) has been sitting in my yarn basket....and moreover, the maple
leave socks are giving me fits.
i frogged them out once because they were too big and started them again at a reasonable size...but ultimately
the problem is that this yarn just doesn't work witht his pattern.
the maple leaves are so cute and i want them to pop out visually. this yarn isn't doing it. i will frog them and
make something else with it and find some other yarn to knit the maple leaves with. i might even do it in a solid
and then hand-paint the leaves so they stand out. some people on ravelry have done that and it looks great.
i also finished heads and bodies for 2 knithulhus this weekend. i need to make the wings, stuff them and put them
together and they will be finished. i could probably finish both of them AND the one that just needs wings tonight.
but i have other things to do like getting cat food and picking up a package from UPS while they are still open.
and they were fantastic. well worth the 2 hours i sat in traffic and scrambled to find parking
to get the tickets. the scrim was ugly. the lighting was terrible. the sound guy had no clue
what he was doing and you could barely hear the harmonies.
they did a lot of stuff off their new album, fortune's favor, that i frankly think is crap.
the only whiskey being sold was jack.
and it was still a fantastic show.
it says a lot when a band can do that.
also one of the new t-shirts for them has a big octopus on it. tentacles FTW!
ross didn't have as good a time as i did, cuz he wasn't feeling very well. but i think he was
glad he went.
susan and her friend will and salsa and another feste we knew(but who's name i can't
recall) were there as well.
mostly it was a relaxing weekend for me. not-so-much for ross, as he was working on setting up
a triple-boot on his new work-laptop.
we picked up my car (new front tires, front-end alignment) from the shop. i need new brakes
and my rotors checked, but as it rained pretty much all weekend, that wasn't about to happen.
i talked to the cat lady on friday and found out that they are getting their last shots this coming saturday. i can pick up our kitten monday!!!
i also made ketchup.
from scratch.
myra sent us the tomatoes from her garden. romas work great for this because they are almost
all meat and have less juice. i boiled them enough to peel them thursday night and stuck them
in the fridge til saturday.
saturday i got a red pepper chopped half of it and half an onion. added them to the tomatoes
and boiled the lot til the tomatoes were tender. you'd think tomatoes would already be tender-
especially given that they had to be boiled to get the skins off!
it actually took quite a bit of boiling to get them all soft.
then everything got pureed in the blender and cooked down, spices, sugar, salt and vinegar added,
then cooked down some more.
the end result is potent. imagine the taste of ketchup and then increase it by 4 and that's about
what this is. i got 3.5 jars worth(pint sized)...which is plenty for ross and i. it's not like ketchup is
something you can give away if you have too much of it. it's not a gift sort of thing.
but i am very pleased to have just that much less HFCS in my diet.
and i'm guessing this will make killer cocktail sauce (add hot sauce and horseradish).
ross fixed my computer in addition to his laptop, and set me up with a new install of ubuntu, which
neither of us have ever used before. so far i am very pleased. i am going to be able to finish my letter
for my dad now. it's fast. and there are programs for
everything (typicaly linux). and there are even some podcasts out there to help me learn to use it.
which i am going to have to learn VERY SOON. the one problem is podcasts. there is a simple program
out there for managing ipods that works just fine. and there are many podcatchers to choose from.
i have 2 installed at the moment, which is probably overkill.
the problem is that the podcatchers i can find are ALL RUN THROUGH THE COMMANDLINE. and i am VERY
limited in my knowledge of linux commands. like i know how to find man pages and see lists of things.
i know how to change directories - VERY BASIC. so i have to learn how to use the commandline to manage
my podcasts and that is going to be a serious challenge. i actually LIKE working in a text-based system
as opposed to a GUI. it feels like i'm more involved with the computer in a direct way. kinda like driving
stick over automatic. but this is going to be a big learning experience for me all the same. and
ross can't help me much, because this flavor of linux is as new to him as it is to me - and he doesn't
care much about podcasts, so that isn't where he's going to be focused on learning.
the thing that really sucks is that he thought i was going to be able to go back and forth between windows
and linux with my ipod. that is definitely not the case. not only that, but trying to do so wiped everything
on my ipod again, so i am music-less at work until i figure this out.
as a result, i am highly motivated.
the rest of the weekend was mostly spent relaxing, staying up too late reading, and watching sopranos episodes
with ross (while he worked on his laptop and i knit or spun).
i have started a new pair of fawkes socks (named for dumbledore's phoenix). they have been waiting to be knit
for a while. the yarn (fleece artist *swoons*) has been sitting in my yarn basket....and moreover, the maple
leave socks are giving me fits.
i frogged them out once because they were too big and started them again at a reasonable size...but ultimately
the problem is that this yarn just doesn't work witht his pattern.
the maple leaves are so cute and i want them to pop out visually. this yarn isn't doing it. i will frog them and
make something else with it and find some other yarn to knit the maple leaves with. i might even do it in a solid
and then hand-paint the leaves so they stand out. some people on ravelry have done that and it looks great.
i also finished heads and bodies for 2 knithulhus this weekend. i need to make the wings, stuff them and put them
together and they will be finished. i could probably finish both of them AND the one that just needs wings tonight.
but i have other things to do like getting cat food and picking up a package from UPS while they are still open.
