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Mar. 23rd, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickAt work today, I fixed one of the gas furnaces at 216 by myself. It would light the pilot light if you sat there and held the knob, but when you'd let it run a minute and let go of the knob (as per instructions), the pilot light would go out. This behavior in a manual-pilot-light gas furnace generally means that the thing-which-tells-if-the-pilot-is-lit-or-not (called the thermocouple) is not happy and needs to be replaced. So I did that. All by myself. The building had not exploded by four in the afternoon, so probably I installed everything okay. Go me!
I broke one of my bamboo size 1 DPNs. Fuck. This has not *stopped* the sock project, but it is pissing me off somewhat because I LIKED the bamboo DPNs. I will have to order more. Damn it.
I made another batch of whole-wheat bread. I'm baking one of the loaves and freezing the other. We'll see how that goes. I forget, every time I lapse from the world of bread baking, how damn much better home-made bread tastes. It does. It tastes better than bought bread.
Because of the bread thing and also because of a disturbing article I'd read about cooking lack o' clue, I was considering a meme where I tell people to do something cookingwise in the kitchen and if they've never done it before, they have to give it a try and report back. People who have done it (whatever it happens to be) get to tell me something to do and of course I'll give it a whirl and report back. Think of the fun we could have! Seriously. Anybody want to play?
Finally, I noticed this evening during Jeopardy! (grandma likes it) that they had a Pontiac car ad involving the word google as a verb... like "Google Pontiac and see for yourself..." My thing here is why haven't Google's people contacted the Pontiac people and told 'em to quit verbing their servicemark or trademark or whatever the hell it is. I mean, yeah, everybody DOES it and we Merkins are all about verbing the fucking noun, but the Google IP (intellectual property, not internet protocol) folks should be all over this.
I broke one of my bamboo size 1 DPNs. Fuck. This has not *stopped* the sock project, but it is pissing me off somewhat because I LIKED the bamboo DPNs. I will have to order more. Damn it.
I made another batch of whole-wheat bread. I'm baking one of the loaves and freezing the other. We'll see how that goes. I forget, every time I lapse from the world of bread baking, how damn much better home-made bread tastes. It does. It tastes better than bought bread.
Because of the bread thing and also because of a disturbing article I'd read about cooking lack o' clue, I was considering a meme where I tell people to do something cookingwise in the kitchen and if they've never done it before, they have to give it a try and report back. People who have done it (whatever it happens to be) get to tell me something to do and of course I'll give it a whirl and report back. Think of the fun we could have! Seriously. Anybody want to play?
Finally, I noticed this evening during Jeopardy! (grandma likes it) that they had a Pontiac car ad involving the word google as a verb... like "Google Pontiac and see for yourself..." My thing here is why haven't Google's people contacted the Pontiac people and told 'em to quit verbing their servicemark or trademark or whatever the hell it is. I mean, yeah, everybody DOES it and we Merkins are all about verbing the fucking noun, but the Google IP (intellectual property, not internet protocol) folks should be all over this.
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Date: 2006-03-29 05:49 am (UTC)Be nice though, my skills are... well, quite beginnerish, to say the least..