User: elke_tanzer Date: 2008-12-04 15:49 Subject: Rocky Mountain Winter Wonderland Security: Public Mood: cozy Tags: rl

Twenty degrees and snow falling... Denver is lovely.

Thank heavens for warm scarves and gloves and coats and My New Hat!

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User: elke_tanzer Date: 2008-12-01 19:19 Subject: Hello, Mile High City of Broncos... Security: Public Mood: sleepy Tags: rl

I'm in Denver. So far, the hotel is absolutely charming.

It was snowing this morning in Indianapolis. Winter wonderland and all of that... I am in such a holiday mood now!

*yawn*

But first, I sense an impending long winter's nap... well, at least until morning.

G'night, lovelies!

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User: elke_tanzer Date: 2008-11-30 20:52 Subject: Speaking of time zones... Security: Public Tags: rl

I leave Indiana ungodly early tomorrow morning to fly to Denver for a week of project management training class.

*glares at 4am alarm setting*

*stares at ceiling*

Grar.

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User: elke_tanzer Date: 2008-11-27 21:39 Subject: a new tradition in seven easy steps Security: Public Mood: happy Music: it's after midnight here, so I've started my Yule music Tags: holiday - thanksgiving, recipes, rl

1. Notice a vaguely-interesting recipe in Coastal Living magazine because the accompanying article included photos of bicycles decorated with garlands and sparkly beads. Oooh, shiny sparkly.
2. Email recipe to parents.
3. Survive intervening week or two of chaos.
4. Visit parents, who have survived their intervening week or two of chaos.
5. Encourage parents to try the new recipe even if we don't have all of the ingredients because we all only just barely survived the intervening weeks of chaos... Mom goes for it, substituting pomegranate-tangerine juice for tangerine juice, doubling the dried cranberries for the dried cherries, and using flour in place of corn starch. She skips the rind-grating and the sectioning of the tangerine since we have no actual tangerines in the house. Oh, and she omits the salt and uses low-sodium chicken broth, because this is an Extremely Extremely Low Sodium household.
6. Discover that this is The Best Interesting Gravy Ever.
7. Watch in pleased amusement, and chime in wholeheartedly, as the entire table agrees that we're doing this recipe again next year. It's awesome on turkey, and I'll bet it'll be equally amazing on chicken.

:-9

The original recipe is available online at http://www.coastalliving.com/ by searching the recipes for "Tangerine Gravy" or by going directly to this link (theoretically, anyway).

( Here's a copy of the recipe for posterity in case the Coastal Living site goes down... )

Enjoy!

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User: elke_tanzer Date: 2008-11-26 21:31 Subject: What time zone is this, again? Security: Public Mood: tired Tags: rl

*yawn*

I'm back in Indiana for the holiday weekend, helping my parents some more with the house and related paperwork. And on Monday I fly to An Unfamiliar Cold Wintery City for a week of professional development training. I'm really looking forward to it but frankly, I'd prefer to hibernate for a week.

*yaaaaaawn*

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User: the_lj_refuge (posted by yavannauk) Date: 2008-11-26 07:42 Subject: What's with LJ this time? Security: Public Mood: annoyed

Is it just me or is LJ not loading/loading glacially slow yet again? The status page didn't have anything up, but this is driving me crazy!

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User: the_lj_refuge (posted by spoonishly) Date: 2008-11-25 08:23 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Wow, LJ, my notifications FINALLY start working and you go down AGAIN. This is getting tiring. Your Montana servers are not robust.

No update from the status page as of yet.

ETA: Of course, I post this and it comes back. SIGH.

ETA II: And, of course, it goes down and, once again, my notifications have stopped coming.

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User: elke_tanzer Date: 2008-11-23 08:10 Subject: Random links of happy-making Security: Public Mood: awake Music: Don't Stop Believin' Tags: randomness

Here are a few links that have come to me from various sources over the past couple weeks:

InsaneJournal is having a holiday sale

Bay Area Accordion Babes pin-up calendar and CD

morgandawn is linking to charities to consider in your holiday giving; the first of her series of posts is here.

Via Youtube: Austrian hexapod robotics competition highlights: Dancing Division

Also via Youtube: Wiimote+Roomba=Wiimba !

Johnny Chung Lee is my new hero... Johnny Chung Lee > Projects > Wii

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User: the_lj_refuge (posted by aurora_84) Date: 2008-11-22 21:55 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Boo downtime!!

Status reports no issues so far. (But we know better.)


ETA1: LiveJournal is experiencing some unexpected downtime. We're currently working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.
9:01 pm GMT (Saturday, November 22) -- status

ETA2: We're back!!

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