I sit here with a completely dead windows machine and a help desk that won’t answer the phone. And so I eat this apple and wait. Something tells me I was better off staying home today.

Elizabeth McGrath is offering hand-painted severed heart butcher knife Valentines for your special someone. Each one is rusted, painted, lettered, and decorated with glittered. They are only $25 but you’ve got to get them fast. Only available through February.

Number 41 is an exceptional apple. And so before eating it, I asked it to come to Portland with me and be my personal slave. If you know what I mean. I shall grow to love this apple as if it were my own son. But then he’ll learn that his mother and sister are…

My contract at work changed hands and I was nervous that I wasn’t going to have a job anymore, but it seems that things are all worked out and I’ll still be able to enjoy eating food instead of rocks, and sleeping under a roof instead of cardboard. This is a very happy thing. It…

I’ve got that “First day of the rest of your life” or “anything is possible” kind of feeling today. Which makes me want to cut and dye my hair where just yesterday I was talking about how I was going to grow out the color and let it go grey. I’m very fickle I guess.…

Friday night we roasted a chicken and had some Waldorf salad with a Fuji. I used all yogurt instead of half yogurt half mayonnaise and I believe you definitely need a little mayo in there but cut the tartness of the yogurt. There’s a little bit of chicken and waldorf salad left. I thought I’d…

Adele at the Warfield, I kinda hated it. Adele is very talented, she has an amazing voice, is a great songwriter, and the two songs she played without her back-up band were awesome. But she mostly sang along to studio musicians, who sounded more like a late show/vegas band and it wasn’t a good fit…

At about 3 o’clock every day I get really stir crazy at work. I’m waiting for a meeting that appears to have been delayed so I didn’t want to leave just in case I missed it, but I just couldn’t take it anymore. I snuck out and ran down the street to RJ market for…

I’ve been reading up on accessibility issues for websites and I ran across this very comprehensive online 30 day tutorial by Mark Pilgrim complete with seven different profiles of users (including Google) with accessibility needs. It is copyright 2002, so it’s behind in some areas but it gives a great perspective on the who and…

I saw Neko Case last night at the Herbst Theatre as part of the city arts and lectures Talking Music series. It was so, so great. I’ve had a pretty big crush on her for several years now. Hearing her talk was a real treat. I haven’t had that many belly laughs in one sitting…

I came across this fantastic bee article by Aaron Hirsh in the New York Times on native bees which lead me to another article from the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Center on how to make your garden native bee friendly. They tell you how to make bee friendly homes for ground dwelling and wood dwelling…

Today’s fuji was enjoyed while reading about Fun at Work Day. Did you know you can pretty much count on every day being some sort of holiday? Holiday Insight dot com lists everything under the sun. Tomorrow is Kazoo day. I’m going to see how much fun I can have at work today. I started…

I ate a fuji today because Paul told me to. I like to run with the herd. He was right about it though. This one is so juicy, sweet, and crisp. I know they are supposed to be in season right now but some of the fuji’s I’ve gotten ahold of lately have been sub-par.…

I had a snack attack during the airing of True Beauty so I grabbed a Golden Delicious. It was truly golden and delicious. True Beauty was predictably trashy and terrible, just what I needed. I almost missed it too. I’m so bad at watching shows regularly. I guess I just don’t care enough. Tom had…

This dish does well in Crock Pots and you can’t beat it for an easy dinner on a busy day. Just throw the ingredients into the Crock Pot the morning and by the time you get home, you have succulent, fall-off-the-bone chicken dripping with rich, garlicky sauce. We have a very small two person crock…