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Ways not to save money.

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:17:16 GMT

I bake. A lot. Since I've been trying to save a little money lately, the last time u bought flour, I purchased a store brand of all-purpose flour. Noelw, this flour has been fine for making sauces, banana bread, and pancakes. Since I hadn't made a pizza in a while, I thought tonight would be a good time to do so, since we'd just gotten a new giant bag of mozzerella. So I did, exactly as I've done for years.

For those tuning in for the first time, I'm generally sort of an ingredient snob. I figure that if you want your finished product to be high quality, you stand a much better chance using the best ingredients that you can get. For white flour, unless you're making cakes, this generally means unbleached, unenriched hard red winter wheat flour. And I'm a big fan if bob's red mill flour. This time, though, I was trying to save a buck, and purchased whatever was generic all purpose flour at m street. So I make my normal recipe:

1 3/4 or so of flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp yeast
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup hot water, that you must never use all of

Now I'm really anal about how mix this. The order is flour, whisk, yeast, whisk, sugar, whisk, salt, baking powder, whisk, drizzle in oil while whisking vigorously, and thencontinue whisking until you have something that looks like it would be a good biscuit dough. At this point, you add your water untilnit acts right, then turn it out and knead it until no longer sticky. At this point, I start thinking, "there's something not right with this dough". I put it off, however, to natural variability.

Anyway, the pizza comes outabd the dough had browned unnaturally quickly. I didn't think much of it, again, until I ate it. Holy plastic pizza batman! Completely flavorless crust, managing to simultaneoulsy be tough and without texture. I make a lot of pizza, and I've done a lot of strange things, and some of them don't work out well, but this was hands down the worst pizza that I've ever made, including the first ones where I rolled the crust so thin that it didn't rise and the no-flour bran crust pizza. Awful. I'm going to throw this flour away, now, andbever buy anything like it again. Bob, you're my man forever.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:04:41 GMT

17:16 Spraying POISON... deck materials tomorrow, and then fun with augers, saws, and drills #

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:04:38 GMT

10:40 Back from the dead, I happen to be on the ground in atlanta. #
12:01 Now to see if my opinion of Atlanta beer has headed in the same direction as my opinion of Atlanta coffee... #

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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:04:18 GMT

09:05 This is just wrong. It's 87f in Seattle, and 82f in atlanta. I didn't come here for the heat! #

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:05:26 GMT

This is just wrong. It's 87f in Seattle, and 82f in atlanta. I didn't come here for the heat!

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:04:56 GMT

06:32 One couch. 11 flights of stairs. Go. #

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:32:52 GMT

One couch. 11 flights of stairs. Go.

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Fri, 08 May 2009 02:13:09 GMT

21:16 Ok. So tulas in Seattle has a live 20 piece jazz orchestra on tuesday and wedesdays. #

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Thu, 07 May 2009 04:16:10 GMT

Ok. So tulas in Seattle has a live 20 piece jazz orchestra on tuesday and wedesdays.

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:02:58 GMT

12:26 I want to only be responsible for software used by #
12:28 I want to only be responsible for software used by Japanese and Chinese. Their maintenance happens when I am already awake. #

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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:03:20 GMT

20:24 @thomasls 20 GOTO 10 #
20:26 I am suffering from loud music withdrawl. I've got my bitsy stereo turned up as loud as I think it will survive, and I'm standing in front #
20:27 of it, and it isn't loud enough. And I don't know how to fix this in Seattle! Aaasaaaaaaaa! #
20:29 This must be fixed. #
20:39 @profanecherry - hi. #
20:39 @thomasls - I was trying to remember something more elegant, but alas. #
21:06 F***! I can't make it loud enough. I think I'm having playa withdrawl. #
21:13 Ok. Application of alcohol helped. Some. #
07:54 @jonolson - it's be better if I could find the d@@@ drill bits. #

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Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:14:13 GMT

21:53 The crazies are out tonight on Seattle metro transit. We had two fights within minutes of leaving the airport on the 174. #
21:56 The second fight caused an accident, by the two people in the front running into the driver. The driver tried to stop, but there were two s #
21:56 Now we're sitting here, unable to go home, on a completely packed bus. #
22:01 The cops are here now. The fight was between a man and a woman. #
22:02 Now, they're asking if anybody is injured... Not really. #
22:06 Now, we're on a new bus. Story over. #
22:37 That's right, it's superbowl sunday! That's why everyone's crazy. NFL, I blame you. #

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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:37:46 GMT

That's right, it's superbowl sunday! That's why everyone's crazy. NFL, I blame you.

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:17:29 GMT

So here's the full bus story, what I've seen and heard.

To begin, a guy in the back of the bus began verbally accosting a woman, I think offering to sell her crack. She basically told him that she didn't want any crack - at the top of her lungs. This went on, and he got off at the next stop.

It's not over, though, because not ablock later, a man and a woman get into a fight in the front of the bus. Evidently, she hit him, and the he started whaling on her. She then ran to the front of the bus, and he chased her, hitting her again. She grabbed the driver and pulled him out of his seat and about this time we hit a car. The bus driver got out with the two pugilists, and we sat there until the cops showed up with another 174. It didn't look like the car was badly damaged, and now we're headed home again.

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Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:07:06 GMT

19:40 The Saint, at olive and bellvue, rocks my socks off. #

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Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:40:59 GMT

The Saint, at olive and bellvue, rocks my socks off.

Java is Cobol v3.

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:08:16 GMT

No further comment.

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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:04:29 GMT

15:08 Ok, been out again, getting ready for bman. Built bike, some costumes, needing new boots badly still. Only a few things left to do before #

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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:08:08 GMT

Ok, been out again, getting ready for bman. Built bike, some costumes, needing new boots badly still. Only a few things left to do before we leave, and then we're gone tomorrow, off to playaland.

The state of washington can suck my cock, btw, for the insanity of their drivers licensing program.

Wedding invitations arriving soon. Need to order envelopes.

The apartment looks bombed. Maybe that will confuse burglars.

The background of this tool is nice, but they need to make it move with the text... Having lines that don't move is distracting- it looks like my text is in jail.

Back to work.

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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:13:14 GMT

07:08 Self-suspension - interesting.

My god, I work a lot. If you've been wondering where I am, that's likely your answer. I still don't have a #
15:49 full of children... #

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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:08:05 GMT

Self-suspension - interesting.

My god, I work a lot. If you've been wondering where I am, that's likely your answer. I still don't have an up-to-date drivers license because seemingly I'm at work all the damn time. That is a great hope of mine in using this system for updates - if I can start sending info more frequently, I'll read it as well rather than relying on the Erin algorithm for all of my news.

We finally got all of our stuff in on Monday, and we should have all the large items sold by this weekend. Playa prep is running behind, still rebuilding a bike. Trying not to buy any parts, but some things are unavoidable, like freewheel removers.

Don't do much cooking right now. My life has shrunk.

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Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:15:33 GMT

13:09 So I'm going to try out CellSpin. This should be interesting if it works, and may give me that unified blog update that I've been looking f #

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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:09:11 GMT

So I'm going to try out CellSpin. This should be interesting if it works, and may give me that unified blog update that I've been looking for.

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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:06:01 GMT

15:52 I have now become entirely interrupt driven. #

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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:06:57 GMT

19:42 I have now been to south park. Walking today: 15+ miles. #
13:43 @thomasls or @nikkistrick - I need to get in touch with alyssa. #

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