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Archive for December, 2008

Not user-friendly

The OLCC’s website is not easy to navigate. I keep hearing that I ought to be able to do a product search there, rather than having to call all the liquor stores I can think of, but I can’t figure out where the search function is. This is frustrating. I know of at least two [...]

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I just made dinner reservations for the prix fixe dinner at Belly Timber for New Year’s Eve. M and I will have dinner there before heading to the annual New Year’s party held in SE Portland at a friend’s house.
I suspect my NoPo friends will be mostly doing low-key at-home New Year’s this year, since New [...]

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1. I tended bar at a crappy Chinese restaurant when I was 22. It was a seriously cruddy place– $1 happy hour Bud Light! I was not a very good bartender, and no one cared at all. The most complicated things I made were tequila sunrises. I served a lot of rum & cokes, shots, [...]

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Snowed in

Thank god I live walking distance to M’s place, or I’d have lost my mind. This is Day 3 of Snowpocalypse, as everyone in Portland is already aware. We walked to the grocery store Saturday and today, and we’re well-stocked with food and Xmas cookies, especially seeing as how we can’t distribute cookies to intended [...]

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M and I have been baking Xmas cookies all week, and so far have done a double batch of (hugely buttery!) turtle bars, a batch of pine nut cookies, and a batch of lemon-rosemary shortbread.  We’ll do a double batch of Linzer cookies tonight, and then I believe we have some sort of nut ball [...]

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The end of the tunnel

The last final of fall term is tonight, and then school is wrapped up till January. Of course, I still have my job and internship, and prep for workshop, and holiday festivities, and Xmas shopping, and my bgf & her husband’s baby is pretty much arriving anytime, and etc etc etc, so it’s still going [...]

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