• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Tour De Cure 2014: Help Me Raise Funds to help STOP diabetes

    I’m riding 35 miles in the Chicagoland Tour de Cure this June to raise money to help STOP diabetes. I’m also riding to support my husband +David Gibbs in his own ride – he’s the leader of Team RED. Tour de Cure is a major fundraising event for the American Diabetes Association. I’m also riding because it’s fun, and great exercise. I’ll be training over the winter in our basement, and I’ll get training stats up on STRAVA, a fitness social media site. If I raise just $100 by Friday, I qualify for an “In Training” T-shirt. So please consider…

  • Mini-Posts

    This was SO TASTY

    We made it tonight, and it was really low in carbs. It needs a little more color, so next time we'll try it with red bell pepper added, and maybe some red pepper flakes. Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Sausage and Kale Spaghetti squash is winter squash unlike any other. When you cook it and scrape it with a fork, the flesh peels away like ribbons of pasta, hence the name. The taste is light and texture almost a little crunchy. Spaghetti squash’s best friend? Sausage. They just like each other, like pasta and meatballs. So when I saw this recipe…

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    How to find unread emails after updating to iOS 7 on the iPhone: simply type "Unread"…

    How to find unread emails after updating to iOS 7 on the iPhone: simply type "Unread" into the inbox search field for either all inboxes, or specific inboxes. After the update apparently the mail app looks at your entire account; if like me you don't delete everything once it's read, you might have dozens of "unread" emails dating back years. I had 3 pesky emails in 2 accounts that had been marked unread, and after wrestling with it and not getting a good answer from the fount of Google knowledge, I finally just gave up and typed "unread" in search…

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    Yet more evidence that Pat Robertson is an evil old scumbag, yet still gullible people…

    Yet more evidence that Pat Robertson is an evil old scumbag, yet still gullible people send him money to finance African "relief efforts" that only relieve Africa of its diamonds and gold. Mission Congo: how Pat Robertson raised millions on the back of a non-existent aid project The televangelist claimed Operation Blessing was giving vital aid in response to the 1994 Rwandan crisis. A documentary opening at the Toronto film festival paints a less flattering picture View this post on Google+

  • Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    A Walk At Alki, New Arrivals, A Pink Door, And More

    We ended today with a boat trip out to Blake Island’s Tillicum Village for the afternoon salmon bake and cultural show, and by then I was taking photos with the big Canon, not my iPhone. But we did a lot of Touron stuff in the morning and yesterday too, including: Bought a glass thingy from The Glasshouse Studio. They’re shipping it so we don’t have to worry about lugging it. Lunch at the Pink Door after exploring the Public Market, which always tickles me. It’s fun introducing new people to it – once you find it again. Here’s Shel and…