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Roll for Love

Roll for Love Andrle found an idea via From My Bowl to make heart shaped cinnamon rolls using two TJs ingredients. We powdered the freeze dried raspberries first and then combined with the included icing.

Buds

Buds Visit the post for more.

Media — December 2025

Media — December 2025 Catching up on a media post right after a very busy January came to an end. Not much gaming this time of year. Reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians We finished The Last Olympian. I think it was …

SAAM Wise

SAAM Wise Last week I took a day off to chaperone a middle school field trip to the Seattle Asian Art Museum. This was mostly sixth graders from 1st and 3rd period, but some older kids too. The bus ride ther…

Party Pike

Party Pike We had a leftover tiny hat from my niece’s birthday party and, well… Am I a joke to you? Where is my reward? Thinking about the world When no one comes to your party

Quick Spaghetti

Quick Spaghetti We needed a quick meal tonight so Andrle whipped up a tasty savory pasta dish with stuff we had on hand. Trader Joe’s Roasted Garlic Marinara Beyond Meatballs Sautéed bell pepper Sautéed onio…

What’s Past is No Blog

I decided to move all of my old LiveJournal archive category (452 posts!) to Private. These date from 2003 to 2008, before I moved to this self-hosted WordPress setup. I made most of them when I was still in college and connected to the SWIL current student and alumni community that used LJ heavily. With the advent of generative AI for search, I've been seeing a significant uptick of traffic to these ancient posts, and when I've glanced at some of these, more than a few of them are extremely cringe....

What’s Past is No Blog I decided to move all of my old LiveJournal archive category (452 posts!) to Private. These date from 2003 to 2008, before I moved to this self-hosted WordPress setup. I made most of them when I wa…

Media — November 2025

Media — November 2025 Got so busy with re:Invent and the holidays that I’m backdating this post of things I enjoyed (or not) in November. Reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians We finished The Battle of the Labyr…

Roumd Bun

Roumd Bun Spotted this absolute unit (who chose freeze over flight) when I took Pike outside this morning.

To the Moon and Back

To the Moon and Back So when my ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ was misbehaving last week, I didn’t notice that I had accumulated some bad activity data. Figure my stride is about a meter so that’s approximately five lunar round tr…

PinkSky

PinkSky Sometimes the family thread devolves to just “Sunset!” and then I run up to the roof to get a picture. My phone definitely color corrected more than I’d like.

Otherwatch

Otherwatch Since I installed the watchOS 26.2 update, I’ve been getting this storage space error. But I don’t have any music or photos on you! At first I thought I had accidentally loaded an app o…