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      February 6th, 2006 by Jon Abad in The Page

      Currently: Considering a Culinary Circus

      I have enabled behind the scenes caching for the site and it seems to be going at a decent clip.
      It expires once an hour, so if you visit more often than once an hour, things may repeat themselves. If this makes no sense, (which it shouldn’t) then you’re fine. If you’re experiencing the repeating that is usually tallied up to Deja Vu, be advised, it is probably not a glitch in the matrix and just leave a comment in this post on the subject.

      Yours in Rock,
      J

      Authored by: Jon Abad

      weekend!

      February 6th, 2006 by mike d. in Weekend Update!

      currently eating: yogurt

      My weekend? yes. it was good.

      Friday night I struggled with the Acclaim. It’s still jacked up in a pile of pieces in my garage… so it’s safe to say that my tinkering was not entirely successfuly. It turns out that the locking ring for the fuel pump is very rusted, and is not giving to my furious brass blows. Tonight I’m going to try and fully remove the gas tank instead of just lowering it. I’ve also decided to replace the old rubber crusted fuel lines. It only makes sense.

      Saturday I hit up the worcester arcade with Mandy (DDR, it turns out, is fantastic), followed by my sisters wild birthday dinner in Providence (Happy Birthday T-rex!). We went to a Japanese steak house where they cooked in front of you in a fury of fire and wild knife slashing. Michelle was struck with a flying Lemon. Theresa took a bunch of pictures and everyone had a blast.

      J.B. happened to be in town so he went with us out to dinner. He’s exactly the same and spent most of the evening trying to wig me out with sexual advances on my sister. He does get a few points for a stirring rendition of “You lost that Lovin’ Feelin”

      Sunday I went skiing for the first time. that’s right Steven McFarland. I went skiing. I got a handle on the movements by the end of the day while Mandy spun circles around me on her snowboard. I had fun, but the entertainment to money ratio was a bit below that of rockclimbing. I suspect, however, that once I feel more confident stopping that my enjoyment of the sport will skyrocket.

      Authored by: mike d.

      Bread Baking Extravaganza

      February 6th, 2006 by mike d. in Food, Features

      The better of the two loaves

      JonAbad and I spent some time yesterday making some bread. I use the word “making” very loosly, because really… the Kitchen Aid Mixer did all the real work. We just watched.

      What made this bread unique is that it was fast! it only had a single rising so the whole thing was completed in under 2 and a half hours.

      Delicious

      We froze one of the loaves, which will likely be removed from the freezer at some point later this week.

      We abolished the other loaf within a few hours.

      Mike D’s rockclimbing ratings:
      Deliciousness: 5.10a
      Difficulty: 5.8+

      Authored by: mike d.
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