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Yesterday was quite relaxing - did some laundry and dishes, but mostly finished reading "Truckers" (Prachett) and read all of "Diggers." I don't have "Wings," I'll have to get it.
Oh, and got my hair cut, so that when we went back and got our passport pictures re-taken in the afternoon I didn't look quite so much like a crazy person as I had the first time. It was a lucky break that actually the first passport pic was not in spec for what the application demands - the face can't be more than one and three-eighths inches from chin to top of hair, and the top of the hair has to be included. The guy who took the pics had not done a particularly good job printing and cutting. And I had done an absolutely terrible job posing - slumped, eyes half closed, hair all over. I looked like a stoner.
And then we went to Portland where Eor spent some gift money (an appreciation gift from his coworkers for just being great) at Enterprise Records. We went to Norm's for fries and a coke (our oh-so-nutritious dinner) and Jasper was behind the bar and waved wildly at us when we walked in. We're not at all used to being remembered, that was weird. :) And he can't know, I'm sure, that we bought his CD (he is, or was, in the group "Hiss and Chambers" - which is named after something to do with U.S. politics in the 60s, Alger Hiss...?), although he might recall telling us about his band work, when we used to be dissipates at his bar.
And then we spent a couple of hours at a friend's house, having tea and chatting about work and geek stuff. :)
Eor is actually having some of the chocolate chip blondie I made on Thursday - I'm glad, because I was beginning to think I was going to have to eat it all myself. It was an attempt to make chocolate chip cookies which went horribly badly. The first batch of cookies turned to dust when I attempted to scrape them off the pan, so I dumped the rest of the batter into a casserole dish and baked it a little cooler, and it didn't seem to want to set up, but I ate some yesterday and it's not so bad. Of course I ate the rest of the cookie crumbs as well, because I hate to waste food. I dumped them in a cup with tea and milk, and ate them with a spoon, and then didn't feel too well, after.
I also ate a whole pound of tofu; did I mention that, already? Yes, I realized it was a month past the sell-by date, and I didn't think I'd ever eat the rest of it if I only ate part, so I dumped the whole pound into a pan with some margarine and lots of curry powder and two eggs, and that, with two peices of toast, was my early lunch. "Breakfast" had been yogurt with peaches and cookie crumbs. I ate a LOT of crap, yesterday. But I walked twice on the treadmill, for a total of 300 calories loss. I realize that doesn't count for anything in the food equation, but I'm still happy that I did only a little less than 3mph at an incline of 10 and didn't feel dead. I probably need to record that on my Eowyn's Challenge.
Today we spent more of Eor's gift money (his coworkers gave him $200, they like him a lot) up at Bull Moose music and he got me Red Dwarf X! And Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, just because we don't have it and he loved it as a kid, and it was only $5. :)
Oh, and got my hair cut, so that when we went back and got our passport pictures re-taken in the afternoon I didn't look quite so much like a crazy person as I had the first time. It was a lucky break that actually the first passport pic was not in spec for what the application demands - the face can't be more than one and three-eighths inches from chin to top of hair, and the top of the hair has to be included. The guy who took the pics had not done a particularly good job printing and cutting. And I had done an absolutely terrible job posing - slumped, eyes half closed, hair all over. I looked like a stoner.
And then we went to Portland where Eor spent some gift money (an appreciation gift from his coworkers for just being great) at Enterprise Records. We went to Norm's for fries and a coke (our oh-so-nutritious dinner) and Jasper was behind the bar and waved wildly at us when we walked in. We're not at all used to being remembered, that was weird. :) And he can't know, I'm sure, that we bought his CD (he is, or was, in the group "Hiss and Chambers" - which is named after something to do with U.S. politics in the 60s, Alger Hiss...?), although he might recall telling us about his band work, when we used to be dissipates at his bar.
And then we spent a couple of hours at a friend's house, having tea and chatting about work and geek stuff. :)
Eor is actually having some of the chocolate chip blondie I made on Thursday - I'm glad, because I was beginning to think I was going to have to eat it all myself. It was an attempt to make chocolate chip cookies which went horribly badly. The first batch of cookies turned to dust when I attempted to scrape them off the pan, so I dumped the rest of the batter into a casserole dish and baked it a little cooler, and it didn't seem to want to set up, but I ate some yesterday and it's not so bad. Of course I ate the rest of the cookie crumbs as well, because I hate to waste food. I dumped them in a cup with tea and milk, and ate them with a spoon, and then didn't feel too well, after.
I also ate a whole pound of tofu; did I mention that, already? Yes, I realized it was a month past the sell-by date, and I didn't think I'd ever eat the rest of it if I only ate part, so I dumped the whole pound into a pan with some margarine and lots of curry powder and two eggs, and that, with two peices of toast, was my early lunch. "Breakfast" had been yogurt with peaches and cookie crumbs. I ate a LOT of crap, yesterday. But I walked twice on the treadmill, for a total of 300 calories loss. I realize that doesn't count for anything in the food equation, but I'm still happy that I did only a little less than 3mph at an incline of 10 and didn't feel dead. I probably need to record that on my Eowyn's Challenge.
Today we spent more of Eor's gift money (his coworkers gave him $200, they like him a lot) up at Bull Moose music and he got me Red Dwarf X! And Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, just because we don't have it and he loved it as a kid, and it was only $5. :)