Failed Recipe

The Blueberries were good. The cornbread was good. The Crystal Light was good. The soup was bad.

This picture was taken in June, when I made Creamy Carrot Soup. I like carrots, so I thought this was worth a try. It was a weird soup. It had grapefruit juice and all kinds of funny spices that I normally don’t use. I would never have combined these ingredients if I weren’t following someone else’s recipe.

It smelled really good while cooking, but we didn’t enjoy eating it.

Sick Jack

This is a picture of me being sick. I felt well enough to go to the gym yesterday, but not well enough to do more than 4 laps in the pool. Besides, that water was excessively cold.

I think I have the flu because I’ve been experiencing body aches and a fever, but other than that, it seems like a really bad cold. Maybe I have both.

Today I had Extreme Drippiness Syndrome (EDS) and a fever of 100.4 degrees F. I suspect it actually was higher than that, but I didn’t think to take my temperature until I was already starting to feel a little less cold.

Fortunately, the fever has been going down now, as has my EDS. I don’t feel well enough to do much, really, but I do feel well enough to get caught up on my blogging. I hope to feel well enough for attending church tomorrow.

World Robot Domination

 

I have a tendency to be overly fastidious about doing dishes in my own house. When I’m at someone else’s house, I don’t worry about dishes though. I often do dishes a few times a day.

So, the above comic depicts a conversation I had with my friend Avery, who is renting our guest room. We may not have Rosie from the Jetsons, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have household robots.

Food is More Fun on a Fancy Plate

Maybe I post too many food pictures, but look how much fun I have eating!

Jasmine Bush

This is the jasmine bush that we planted under our front window. As you can see, it has a tendency to drop its flowers after a day or two, but they smell really good. It’s not flowering right now. This picture was taken a while ago.

Cat5 Ethernet

This is a bokeh picture of a cat5 Ethernet jack that I wired. In the background, you see the corner of my monitor and the coil of cat5 wire. This jack is now installed in the wall under my desk and the cable goes through the attic. It gives wired internet connectivity to our guest room. 

I took this picture June 12. That’s when I was working on the Ethernet here.

Ginger Rubble

I don’t recall ever seeing a gingerbread house so thoroughly eaten. Growing up, we usually threw the rest of the house away when January came around. That was largely because we weren't supposed to eat it until we got close to Christmas. Tamara and I have no such rule.

This year, we’re only half way through December and the first gingerbread house that Tamara and I ever built together is reduced to rubble. I finally reduced it from being proudly displayed on a long fancy Christmas serving platter to huddling under a candy tree on a little dessert plate.