Meh

[mizarchivist]

Stuff-
-QE goes back for the same test he had last week. They want to replicate the results before they go making permanent changes. 
-I found a madeleine pan and feel confident I can make these cookies. I ended up eating them all weekend. Probably not the smartest thing I've ever done, but they are best fresh.
-I did see Hunger Games last Monday- I implied it, but then didn't comment on the movie itself. I found it to be a very good adaptation from the book. Next big thing: Avengers. 
-Friends whose kid is closer to teenage than baby gifted us with a baby bike chariot (trailer). QE installed hardware. Now I need to get a helmet for the baby and make sure the cabin is free from garage debris. It's a sweet little rig. 
-Work is... work. I'm glad I have it. The things that were bothering me last week are still a problem, but when dealing with major institutional shift, contention is one of the few predicable outcomes. My annual review is any second now. I'm hoping there will be a chance to have some real conversation about it. 
-Mad Men is eating my brain. Smash is quickly losing me, but hasn't done anything so spectacularly bad to make me entirely quit. 
-I realize I need to re-discover some evening activities, but nothing's really keeping my interest. I should be working on the Cook's Illustrated index, but quite frankly, it's exactly like work and I haven't found the platform that I actually want to use with the finished product. Mostly, I want to just have a certain number of fields to capture what issue, what recipe, then have the option of as many tags as I want to throw in so I can look for "vegetarian," or "main course" with "poultry." Or whatever. I'm currently using a google spreadsheet. I've considered having a dedicated LJ set up- but that's super-clunky and not what it's built for. Anyway, if anyone's gotten this far down the ramble and has a suggestion, let me know. ... seriously- these magazines are staring at me balefully, wondering why I'm wasting time writing an entirely boring post than just entering the data.   

Comments

[beah.livejournal.com]

Dev on "Smash" is totally why I'm still watching ;)

[mizarchivist]

Yeah, Dev's pretty great. The rest are pretty much a hot mess.

[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

are you manually entering recipe data?? When i had to rebuild my recipe database for mac and decided to finally digitize all the magazine/paper scraps too, i found that a lot of them were already online. like, bon appetite and gourmet are all on epicurious. so i just searched on the title and did an import (am using MacGourmet) which sped things up. but yeah, i can see how some of this is A Lot Like Work :/ I feel the same way when I get home and have to weed, prune, and plant things. still probably have the messiest yard on the block!

[mizarchivist]

and the fact that so much of it IS online, but I have these books, you see... and why do we have them in our kitchen if we're not using them, you know? We just lack the proper access to them in the way we (I) need it.

[coraline]

this is why i have a membership to the CI website. the magazine is for browsing and bring inspired the month it comes out, the website is for "i want to make a thing with chicken."

[mizarchivist]

Yeah- I think K has access to the online, because hey. We get the magazines. Maybe it's just steal his password? Or something.

[tikibar]

The more I use the CI website, the more annoyed with them I become. Half the time the authentication portal won't let me in, and a third of the recipes I want to look at are behind their newest "ooh these are special so pay MORE!" paywall (WTF, I've already paid twice, assholes).

I'm more likely to actually hit Epicurious or even Food Network's website than to use Cooks Illustrated's site.

[mizarchivist]

Right. I knew there was something.

[drwex]

*pebble*