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I looked at the posts I’d already made on the blog this morning and experienced a familiar sinking feeling, the feeling that I can’t really do blogs the way other people do. One of the things I find hardest about blogging is deciding what belongs on the blog. When I had a knitting blog, I…

Tabitha, Melissa, some sangria, and the obligatory iced tea cup My friend Susan recently had a birthday, so I signed us both up for a cooking class at Fresh Prep Kitchen – they have recently expanded to include cooking classes. Of course, since we’re in Santa Cruz, their classes are somewhat different from the “mainstream”…

As I mentioned in my last post, I am leaving my current employer (Socialtext) for a new, extremely exciting position at Applied Minds (here’s a Wired article describing the nerdvana that is AMI). I’ll be building prototype applications for them and working with the Metaweb folks. I’m totally jazzed about this opportunity – Metaweb and…

I haven’t been writing here because, really, my job at Socialtext transformed me into some other kind of creature. I’ve got a new blog on this site, though… Perl Goddess. Head over there if you want to see what I’m writing about these days.

Once upon a time, I had a knitting/mom/cooking blog, which is still hanging around here but, as you can see, it has been sadly neglected since I started working at Socialtext. One reason for that is that I spent a lot of my blogging energy blogging on our internal wiki (and eventually I blogged on…

Cooks in 2 2″x11″x9″ cake pans 5 cups bisquick 1-1/2 cup cornmeal 2 cups sugar 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp baking powder 5 sticks butter (1-1/4 pound) 5 eggs 2-1/2 cups milk Combine dry ingredients and mix well. Pour melted butter or margarine over dry mixture and blend together well. Beat eggs and milk and…

Made some tamale pie today and it came out wonderfully, rave reviews all around 2 pounds of ground meat (turkey, beef, whatever you like) 1 tbsp onion powder 1 tbsp of chili powder 1 tbsp cumin powder 1 tbsp smushed or chopped garlic 1 package of trader joe’s frozen roasted corn (or regular corn is…

n n The Birthday Girl Originally uploaded by synedra. n n Happy Birthday Victoria! My daughter turned 9 yesterday and we had a weekend filled with celebratory fun. On Saturday we had a wonderful party at the Perfumer’s Apprentice in Santa Cruz. The woman who runs this place is truly incredible, with her love of…

As I’ve mentioned I’ve gotten a job at Socialtext, which has been a very rewarding job – I tend to spend too much time working but it’s generally because I like what I do. Many folks ask me “What’s a wiki?” Well, what *is* a wiki, and what do you *do* with it? I found…

n n n n Victoria and I went to Pantheacon on Sunday and we had a wonderful time. We got matching henna tattoos on our hands, learned lots of circle dances, and attended a ritual celebrating young ladies such as herself. It was wonderful to spend the day with my daughter, celebrating and learning. I’ve…