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Knitting in the stands

How many UFOs can one person have?? Unfinished objects. This one is stadium ready it only requires a single color of yarn. We have 3 marching band tournaments in the next 2 weeks then its all over. Last tournament I spotted a fellow knitter in the stands. That is, after I knocked over the drink of the lady sitting next...

Planet Hunter

NASA’s prolific planet-hunter Kepler has finally earned its retirement “The mission was successful beyond all expectations, and once the telescope was operational the data began producing exoplanets not by the dozen but by the thousand. And some came closer to an Earth analogue than astronomers had dared hope — suggesting rocky planets about our size aren’t all that rare. (Good...

How to escape from a black hole

Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper: How to Escape From a Black Hole https://nyti.ms/2RbOnFo “A mysterious force called dark energy is speeding up the expansion of the universe. Someday, these experts say, if the expansion continues, making the galaxies fly away faster and faster, the rest of the universe will be permanently out of sight to us, and we will be forever...

Palm Springs restaurants

Firstly, on your way to or from Palm Springs you might need your Mexican food fix: Senorial Mexican Restaurant (Banning) Or a midnight ice cream run. Huge selection of flavors including lots of fruit and nut mixins. High quality, no artificial ingredients. La Michoacana 100% Natural 3220 W Florida Ave, Hemet, CA 92545 (951) 925-6807 https://goo.gl/maps/5sisz7Y1uY32 Now on to Palm...

Paella

3/4 large yellow onion, chopped fine 4 cloves garlic, chopped fine Black pepper Olive oil 2 c San Tomas Bomba rice 5 c chicken stock plus extra 2.5 tsp Chiquilin Paella seasoning 1 pinch saffron, bloomed in hot water 2 Bay leaves 1/2 c peas Cooked chicken, bite sized pieces 2 Aidells sausage, small chunks Salt to taste Saute the...

Butterfinger

Speaking of Halloween candy… Candy Bars – Ranked “Butterfinger – there is no excuse for Butterfingers in the candy bar kingdom. People who like Butterfingers are not nice human beings. They’re the types that leave stale food in the office refrigerator for weeks, don’t pick up their dog’s shit, and cheat on their taxes. The last time I saw a...

Sushi Kami (Rancho Bernardo)

This place has under gone several name changes but the menu has stayed pretty much the same. Tonight we tried the Samurai Roll: krab and tempura shrimp inside, Seared salmon on top, and deep fried onion strings ftw! Very tasty.

First one…

First pumpkin pie of the season! 5.99 is such a huge deal. There is no better pie than Costco’s. Nice flaky crust, well cooked custard. And tonight is the first Marching Band tournament of the season.

F35s at Miramar and San Diego flight paths

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-f35-miramar-20181005-story.html “The crash of a Marine F-35B in South Carolina last week has some residents concerned about the jet’s impending arrival at Marine Corps Station Miramar in 2020. The Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter attached to an East Coast training squadron crashedon Sept. 28. The crashed jet belonged to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 based out of...

Knitting cables

This is my first try with knitting cables. At first I tried to do it without a cable needle but it was difficult to cleanly pick up the loops with this fuzzy yarn and those little loops made by the missed strands just stand out too much. I don’t have an actual cable needle so I am using an extra...

Roy’s La Jolla

Mr A says he likes the idea of Roy’s more than the actual food but it’s still one of my favorites, in fact it was one my three (!) requested dinners on my birthday weekend. We sat at one of the high bar tables against the kitchen. The other dining room tables are often windy and cold under the air...

Lou and Mickeys (San Diego)

I love this place. I love the streetside tables under the Gaslamp sign and right across from the Convention Center. We are never disappointed with the food. My drink was their version of an Old Fashioned – in a Manhattan glass. This type of glass has a quite old fashioned feel to it – very “Some Like It Hot” style....

Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’

Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’ https://nyti.ms/1pYeC4l “And in an act of ingenuity that Dr. Auersperg called “sensational” for an animal not known to use tools in the wild, a cockatoo named Figaro one day started carefully chipping at the edge of a larch wood frame until he had formed a long, slender pole, which he then wielded...

Why Bitcoin is Stupid

Why Bitcoin is Stupid “Let’s get this straight: in order for Bitcoin to be a real currency, it needs several things: easy and frictionless trading between people to be widely accepted as legal tender for all debts, public and private a stable value that does not fluctuate (otherwise it’s impossible to set prices) Bitcoin has none of these things, and...

The Really Big One

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one “Thanks to that work, we now know that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in the past ten thousand years. If you divide ten thousand by forty-one, you get two hundred and forty-three, which is Cascadia’s recurrence interval: the average amount of time that elapses between earthquakes. That timespan is dangerous both because it is too long—long...

626 Night Market

In the northern boonies of LA, but outstanding food selections from 144 Asian food booths. Almost everything we had we loved. Noodles, chicken skewers, Buffalo chicken buns, mandu, lumpia, cupcakes in a jar. Pretty high food quality as would be expected from the 626 area code. Because let’s face it, Alhambra is LA’s REAL Chinatown. The primary cuisines we saw...