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Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.

Caol Ila 12 Year

November 28, 2007

750mL Bottle of Caol Ila 12 Year
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Out of a desire to try something new, on suggestion of , and after reading a bit about it online, I decided to pick up a bottle of Caol Ila 12 Year. This was purchased, along with the aforementioned dinner at Nino Salvaggio located in Clinton Township, MI on M-59.

Thankfully the price was the state minimum of $47.92, which made it reasonably affordable. It’s still not cheap, but it’s right around what my other choice, Laphroaig 10 Year would have cost.

I tried a few sips of it straight, before cutting it with about 40% bottled water. (Just Aquafina, PepsiCo‘s finest highly filtered tapwater product. I find it good for mixing things because it has a nice, neutral taste.) I’m thinking that I rather like it. It’s plenty peaty and smokey, but it’s also got a little bit of sweetness to it. There is not enough sweetness to make it something I dislike, though, more like just enough to nicely round it out.

I’m wishing that I had one of the Millett Hybrid Maxed headphone amps to use (my two are disassembled currently) so I could sit back on the couch and listen to some music while sipping this in the dark. It’s quite nice.

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Garlic! Cheese!

November 28, 2007

Here’s my dinner tonight. It is 12oz of Magic Hat‘s Circus Boy Hefeweizen, a slab of peppered hot smoked salmon, and a sandwich made of roasted garlic cheese and a piece of herb ciabatta.

It’s too bad Magic Hat’s site is a monolithic piece of crappy flash, else I’d actually link to info about the beer. The smoked salmon is some (non-farmed) Alaskan stuff, and the cheese actually contained roasted garlic, and is just whatever was on sale at Nino Salvaggio.

Sorry about the color on the photo, I just took the photo on my kitchen counter which has crappy warm halogens above it.

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November 27, 2007

Damage To My Car
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This is why I can’t have nice things.

See, I was at the Target / Lowes complex in Sterling Heights to buy a new toilet seat (coming in future post). Well, when backing out of the parking spot I suddenly heard a CLANKgrinnnnnnnnd sound, which stopped when I did. Looking in the rear view mirror (where I had been looking) I saw nothing. Looking in the side view mirror I saw part of the cart corral really close to the back of my car.

I pulled away from it, went and parked, got out and looked, and only saw a bit of scraping to the side of the vehicle near the back. Nothing broken, nothing dented. Looking at why I hit it, the damned cart corral was sticking out into the lane 5′ – 6′! It’s also much shorter than my car’s rear end, so it was pretty much impossible to see. (Use the Grand Am in this photo for comparison; my car’s trunk is about that same height.)

Once I got home I wiped down that part of the vehicle and took the photo. It’s really not as bad as it could have been, as it looks to be only a scuff. There is also a couple small marks on the bumper. I’ll check it all out again tomorrow in the daylight.

While rubbing compound should take care of it, I’m still a bit frustrated. I’ll probably find some way to complain to Target about it, because that corral should not have been positioned that far out in the lane. I don’t really want anything for it, I just want it fixed so no one else hits it.

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Stuff Gets Done II

November 26, 2007

Today / Tonight’s Accomplishments:

· Car oil changed.
· Bathrooms cleaned sufficiently.
· Solution book to K&R’s C book ordered from Half.com.
· Old built-in soap dispenser removed from kitchen sink and replaced with metal plug.
· Beer poured, leftover Thai food microwaving.
· Bathroom rugs and floor towels in the dryer.

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The Turd

November 24, 2007

My Xbox 360 is a turd. I just submitted a request for repair, which means that Microsoft should now be sending me a $0 repair kit so that I can have the privilege of not playing games on it for a month while it is (hopefully) put in the state it should have originally been in. That is, working properly.

Quality control like this is the main reason why Microsot won’t be able to make a hand held gaming device any time soon. If consoles are failing this regularly when they aren’t moved about, there’s no way MS can compete in the DS (and PSP) market of regularly dropped in bags / knocked around devices.

Also, here is sparkly part of the DIA from last night, and here is some tasty aloo gobi I ate at Rangoli Express on the way home from work a few evenings back.

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Rice Pudding

November 21, 2007

I just made some rice pudding, and I expect it to be excellent. Hopefully people at family thanksgiving things tomorrow will enjoy it as well.

If you’d like the recipe, it can be found here: Rice Pudding Recipe

It’s a take-off on an Alton Brown recipe, with the amounts of stuff screwed with, vanilla added, no raisins or pistachios, and more rice. It is currently (while hot) as thick as many store-bought rice puddings, so I expect a spoon to stand in it after chilling. Mmm. Spoons should be able to stand up in anything.

Oh, I’ll add a photo to the recipe once it is cool.

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WTF?

November 21, 2007

Ever written a bit of software, looked at it the next day, then not been able to figure out what the hell you were doing?

If I didn’t somehow forget to save after the last compile, it looks to me as if the odd captured data from last night is complete garbage, because I was feeding the SPI data straight into the MAX232. That… I don’t know how I could have gotten that wrong.

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Batter Blaster

November 20, 2007

What do you do when it is 11pm and you want two pancakes and no mess? Batter Blaster! Sure, I have to work on my pancake cooking ability now, but at least I am able to go to the fridge, get out a spray can of pancake mix, and quickly make up two pancakes.

I think they might be a little sweeter than normal, and they do taste a little flour-y, but they are clearly better than no pancakes.

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