Monthly Archives: July 2004

Pietra's Barbequed Salmon

from: 99 Ingredients2 teaspoons paprika 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon ground ancho chile powder 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon sea or kosher salt 4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets Cooking spray 1 teaspoon maple syrup DirectionsPrepare grill, heating to medium. Combine first 5 ingredients. Sprinkle fish with salt; rub with paprika [...]

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Last Day

Well its official. I put my one month notice in at work right before I went home this afternoon. My last day will be August 31st. The next morning, it’s off to Colorado. Earlier this week I found out that two of my friends are also quitting their jobs in August and are moving to [...]

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Politics and Math

Daddy sent me this movie about the upcoming election. It's tres funny and it pretty much sums the whole dern thing up. Now, here's a math problem Matt and I talked about on our walk this evening. Don't read this if you get bored by nerd stuff.

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Mixed Bag

For starters, let me just say that Skippy Snack Bars are really really good. Too bad they're not very good for you … I just got the moving check-out list from our apartment manager. Mon dieu! What a list. I had no idea everything had to be sooooo perfect before we moved out. Sure I [...]

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Boring!

I didn't write much over the weekend cuz we didn't really do anything interesting. Well interesting to anyone apart from us. We spent lotsa time at home packing and cleaning and sorting and then made margaritas and played some video games and watched some DVDs. Good fun, but not very interesting. Today it's been all [...]

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Trauma!!!

We're doing tha obligatory house cleaning/purging that you do when you prepare to move. As part of this, I decided to get rid of a prized posession … the model apartment I made my last year at college in art class. It was a wrench giving it up, but it's big, bulky, delicate, serves no [...]

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Fabbity Fab Fab

I started watching Freaks and Geeks last night. I must say … it's a very good series. So much more about the people you really know in high school than most stuff like it. It's quite filled with hilariosity as well … and lots of those faces you've seen … somewhere (as in … wait, [...]

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Packing

I actually started packing yesterday. I'd been kinda toying with the idea for a couple of days now and yesterday I finally took out a stack of boxes (I'd saved them two years ago when we moved here) and started packing. So now, one of our book cases in the living room is mostly barren [...]

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More Karaoke!

Well it's official! Karaoke Revolution 2 is in the works … it's got added features and, more importantly, new songs (35 in all). So far there's: + … Baby One More Time + Born to be Wild + Cry + Drift Away + Every Breath You Take + Friends in Low Places + Genie in [...]

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Yummy!

I rarely post about one single recipe, but this one demands it. It was quick. It was easy. It was healthy. It was soooo good. Check out maple glazed salmon! We spent the rest of the evning playing Final Fantasy X (sooo close to beating it) and watching Joe Schmo 2. I laughed so hard [...]

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