food!

For your munching pleasure, I've decided to post the recipes I used for the lamb stew and tzatziki sauce I made for Christmas dinner. The tzatziki is pretty much verbatim taken from... some web page... somewhere. But it's really quite good. The stew is a concatenation of three different recipes with my own adjustments and I was surprised and impressed with how well it turned out. ( Read more... )

food!

For your munching pleasure, I've decided to post the recipes I used for the lamb stew and tzatziki sauce I made for Christmas dinner. The tzatziki is pretty much verbatim taken from... some web page... somewhere. But it's really quite good. The stew is a concatenation of three different recipes with my own adjustments and I was surprised and impressed with how well it turned out. ( Read more... )

ack! financial ack!

The US dollar is even more fucked than it was the last time I looked. According to xe.com, the "midmarket" rate versus the Canadian dollar is 1 CAD = 0.780999 USD, which is some three cents more than the last time I checked a couple months ago. Wells Fargo (my bank) is selling at 1 CAD = 0.809332 USD. Eek. When I started travelling to Canada almost four years ago (!), the xe.com averages were about 62-63 cents and I generally got about 66-67 cents at the bank. Well, I guess it means that for the $200 minimum online purchase of foreign currency, I won't wind up getting way more Canadian money than I know what to do with over a Thursday to Monday...

ack! financial ack!

The US dollar is even more fucked than it was the last time I looked. According to xe.com, the "midmarket" rate versus the Canadian dollar is 1 CAD = 0.780999 USD, which is some three cents more than the last time I checked a couple months ago. Wells Fargo (my bank) is selling at 1 CAD = 0.809332 USD. Eek. When I started travelling to Canada almost four years ago (!), the xe.com averages were about 62-63 cents and I generally got about 66-67 cents at the bank. Well, I guess it means that for the $200 minimum online purchase of foreign currency, I won't wind up getting way more Canadian money than I know what to do with over a Thursday to Monday...

yoinked from <lj user

"These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him."

yoinked from <lj user

"These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him."