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 ;)

[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!

[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."

[drwex]

*pebble*