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And with the New Year, comes some long overdue technical updates that need to be made to this blog. As you’ve probably noticed over the last month or so, I haven’t been posting as often as in the past. It basically boils down to that I’ve run out of hard drive space in my hosting [...]

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What a deal, what a deal.
I was just about to head out to the local truck stop, to see what kind of sunflower seeds they carried from BIGS. But when I checked out BIGS website on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, they happened to be running a Cyber Monday special for free shipping on all orders [...]

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Not to be confused with First Blood, but this past weekend was the start of somekind of “blizzard” to hit the Midwest. Which is kind of ironic, since last Friday it was 48F with only some light rain. But then on Saturday, it went from nice to ugly, with a mix of freezing rain, some light [...]

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So listen to this. My folks came out to visit me during the first weekend in December, and they brought along their cat, Misha. You might remember her from a long time ago, in this post.
Well needless to say, when my parents left for home on Tuesday morning, Misha went into hiding in the basement. [...]

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I received this wine shipment a few months ago, I just kept on forgetting to post anything about it (in case you were wondering, the sparkling was a 2004 Late Disgorged Brut and the red was a 2008 DomaineCarneros Estate Pinot Noir.)
Personally I’ve gotten to a point in time after this post, that I’m going [...]

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I’ve made chicharrónes once before with JRR and it came out semi-successfully, only because we really didn’t know what we were doing when we tried to make them the first time around. So this time around, I took some tips from the Momofuku cookbook, and talk about a totally different end result.
So a little bit [...]

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