Joe's New Blog

Nothing special, this is just my third effort at writing a blog about my life and what goes on in it: Hobbies, cooking, work, maybe the occasional book or DVD review, and so forth. Nothing really noteworthy, but this is sort of a little subset of my world...

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

First steps...

I gave my notice at work today. I gave them a long time, because I’ve been here for quite a long time (14 years, nearly), and I feel like I should give them plenty of time to find and train someone to replace me. My position is one of those quirky ones that doesn’t have a real job description, and not a whole lot of people know what I really do and how to do it, so it’ll take a while to train someone else.

In any case, when I did this goal as a challenge, I kind of screwed up the date, because April 4, which is when the goal is “due,” is actually going to be my last day of work. I’ll pack up that weekend and do the move itself the following week. But now it’s not a maybe thing, because the job was just about the last tie I had to here…

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Monday, January 21, 2008

A few more cross-stitch postings to my website...

I posted a few more pictures of my completed cross stitch projects here. I had planned to do a little more work on the site this weekend, but working a 24-hour straight shift from Thursday morning to Friday morning kind of messed up my weekend pretty severely. I'm still hoping to revamp my page about the Colosseum, since that still seems to be the main reason why people visit my site. That'll have to be one of my projects for this week...

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Peach and Almond Crisp

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This evening’s effort. It came out pretty decent, although it would have been better if (1) I’d actually toasted the almonds first like the recipe calls for, and (2) if the frozen peaches I used were sweeter. The recipe calls for half a cup of orange juice to be added along with the peaches, and I think the next time I do this, I’m going to add about a tablespoon of honey to that orange juice and soak the peaches in it for about half an hour before making the filling.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Cross stitch projects...

I posted a new page to the site. Nothing too terribly fancy, but it's a photographic catalog of my completed cross stitch projects. I need to post the remainder of those photos to Flickr so I can link to them on there. That should be done later today...

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Friday, January 11, 2008

The inevitable first post...

So, this is the handy little first blog entry for my new blog. Not much to say yet. I'm really just checking to make sure it's set up properly...

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