This is not the house that pain built

So I made Broccoli shrimp in lime juice today. It was a total invention based of the fact we had shrimp and Brocoli in the freezer, we love the combination, and ernads wants less fat in her diet- which ruled out our previous default for this(Broccoli shrimp in coconut milk and lemon grass). I originally planned on doing this with plain lemons, but there were limes in the market this morning, at which I went !!! and bought a dozen. It was declared way better then the last default, ernads basically purred over it.
( the recipe )

Our license tracking system is called "Hobbit" and it sits on a server called "Gandalf" :)

got this from hagar_972


Most of the stuff I know is so true...only surprise I see there is Tragaryen, but then I don't really know a lot on A Song of Ice and Fire having stopped reading at page 100 of "A Game of Thrones"

Group outing to Cirque Du Soleil: Arranged!

Originally posted by dynamicsymmetry at Congress wants to take away your internet.

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload/link) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

hagar_972 gave me T. I decided that "The" doesn't count because otherwise i would need something like 15 songs.

1.They Spoke with Their Hands-Echo's Children- Beautiful, and sad beyond words, and tells exactly how a telepath in a world of non-telepaths probably feels. Also show why the old saying about the one eyed in the land of the blind is at best inaccurate.

2.The Tower- Vienna Teng- been there, done that, got several dozen t-shirts. Got many friends who're like that as well and have gone through this. Also, I love that melody.

3.This is not the House that pain built- Dar Williams- Because no, it doesn't fit within the pattern of "The Tower"[/wry]. The reminder that sometimes when you decide to be alone it isn't because you're hiding but because it's what you need. Also, I have several people that I would give this to as the people that the song is about.

4.Taxi- Harry Chapin- because we don't always end where we aimed, and not everyone is happy about this. And sometimes we make mistakes along the way, and we can't always make them right.

5.Tanglewood Tree- Dave Carter- because you know, love isn't just the puppies and flowers, it's also the hard times, and the times you snap at each other and a lot more. A character on the Freakangels webcomic summed it up rather well when it told another character "Sometimes we don't like you very much. But we do love you".

I still haven't sat with Shiri and decided which photos are for Public Consumption. Will do it next week, probably. Meantime, have an recursive landscape photo(use the yellow frame to enlarge), a seen on Discover Blog.

So for various reason I'm going to celebrate my b-day on at least 4 different occasions this year, and last night was the first time, which is just me and Shiri. So we went to a very nice Indian restaurant withing walking distance and then cuddled before "How to Train Your First Dragon", the DVD of which she just bought because both of us love Toothless to bits. All in all a really good evening- comfortable and nice and everything.

found through recessional:On how geeks were invented

[dinner, just me and my father]
Me: I think you put too much of something in the chicken soup father.
Father: I may have put a bit of black pepper more then necessary
Me:Father, if it bothers me it's definitely more then a bit too much
(I regularly introduce myself as "Broken Ashkenazi" as I love spicy food, more then about anyone in my family. If it's too spice for me it's more then a bit spicy)

[me and hagar_972 at the tail end of a long chat]
hagar_972:You know, there's something very important about the way your brain works which we learned today.

PS. Yes, I'm including just that one line. Because it amused me greatly, and the rest has little to no bearing on that amusement.