Dinner

This time I tried the rapid riser yeast, with better for bread flour, ice cubes for steam in the oven, and egg white wash for color.
Came out great with nice crust.

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Getting organized

I decided to get more organized this year.  So, in honor of Elmo, my smite list or organization.

   1)  changes to passwords:  I'm kind of freaked out by how many passwords I can't remember that are stored on my machine.  I need to sit down and switch to a three to five tier security system of passwords.

   2)  School:  I put my grades online at dropbox, so the students can see them at any time.  All labs grades are automatically entered and updated.  DONE!


   3)  Evernote:  I've started experimenting with Evernote to organize my school projects and writing.  I think I may actually upgrade to the PRO version to store my docs there as well.  I've already noticed that I love being able to mix handwritten notes (or phone pics of them), and research articles.  I think I may have finally found a way to organize my lab manuals! 

   4)  Music:  I want to cleanup and retag lots of my iTunes library so i can actually make genre playlists.

   5)  School: create exam keys at the same time I create the exams.  Let's face it, I'm going to do the work anyway, I might as well do it early.

  6)  Bookmarks:  I'll be moving to a new laptop soon, so it's a good time to rethink my browser and bookmarks choices.  Switch to chrome?  Anyway, I need to clear out my old bookmarks and only put it the ones I actually need.

   7)  Ricky's closet:  There's a big closet in there, I need to get banker boxes and get my stuff put away, and to make it easy for him to store his increasingly large collection of crap.

    8)  Garage:  Do the annual "take a bunch of boxes down, relabel, and put them back up" afternoon.

More from ricky..."the end is beer"

Sometimes I need him to explain what's going on in his comics, and sometimes I don't. This is one that I figured out on my own.
I really killed the expressions on their faces.

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Ricky's comics

In this comic, the ninja is going to steal gold from this machine which powers the factory owned by "Keil Enterprises". You can see the name on the factory guards helmet.

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A day of skiing

Went to Mountain High yesterday.  Woke up at 6:30am; took about 1 h and 15 minutes to get to the East Side.  Lovely morning, about 48oF.  Hardly anyone was there at the 8:30 opening.  I was able to ski all day without any lines at all, just run after run on the groomed snow.  I had my phone running MyTracks on all day, collecting statistics about my runs.  Assuming a 50:50 split between lift chair distance and skiing distance, I skied 27 miles.  According to the phone, I hit a peak speed of 52.0 mph, with most peak speeds in the 40-45 mph range.  Max grade was 60%.

   At some point during the day, I looked at the data and saw the 52mph stat.  Which seemed great, but then I spent the rest of the day thinking, "52mph?  that's crazy, you know what happens if you crash at 52 mph?!"  It felt great to get back on harder terrain after skiing with Ricky last time. 

    Here's a picture of the horrible crowds.  Most of the day, people wouldn't even double up on the quads, the waits were so short.

  Anyway, a lovely day.   Sunny skies, no lines, listening to music, good snow, $30 lift ticket.  Afterwards, Linda took me out to the Foundry on Melrose for awesome food.  

My year at the dojo

At the end of each class, you're supposed to record your hours; when you' ve gotten enough accumulated, you're allowed to test for your next rank.
When I look at the while year of little x marks, I realized that i' ve had a pretty consistent year, no giant gaps from bad colds, or bouts of "screw it, i'm staying home and having a beer tonight"

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Vacation stuff

Winter break is almost over. Here's Sophie at limekiln canyon park, which we renamed in-n-out burger adventure park, as it's one block from the local burger place. We often go to play in the.creek after eating a pile of beef.

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New year's resolutions

Buy one of these. Right? It's not I like am going to stop drinking espresso anytime soon.

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