Crochet Christmas Light Pattern @Craftzine.com blog – Bookmarking for next year’s Christmas decoration swap.
Month: December 2011 (page 4 of 5)
How We Made the Turducken of Cheese Balls – Food and Cooking – Food News – CHOW – I would make this, and I would eat it. And I would love no doubt curse the cheese baby in my belly thereafter.
How Do You Cut Your Snowflakes? – Neat! Colourful handmade snowflakes from junk mail. Might have to try that.
Justin Bieber Ruins Entire Nerd Subculture With New Christmas Video – HA! Bieber’s new video is STEAMPUNK. Maybe I can convince him to kill off graffiti knitting next?
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Modern Female Protest at Home – Food for thought. (Pun intended.) The Snook likes to cook more than I do, and he’s better at it. But he hates to plan menus and do the shopping. We compromise by pretty much sharing everything 50-50. I’m very lucky in that respect!
How not to market science to girls | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine – I’m wearing pink right now, but sheesh. If I’d gotten “Beauty Spa Lab” as a kid, I would’ve been friggin’ offended.
Crafting with Cat Hair | Quirk Books – Dear Snook: This is for you.
What Actually Goes in a Functional Specification? – Brilliant article outlining one of the main outputs of my job. This matches exactly my thinking on the subject. I do cater the Func Spec to the project and audience. On a purely internal project, I leave a lot of the UI behaviour up to the developers because I trust them to use the most efficient option. On a project for an external client though, I get a lot more specific in the details. My Specs are mainly done as Google Docs, but I’m experimenting with some prototyping tools now.
Week 48
This flu has really wrecked my training plans for the end of the year. I’m still coughing a lot at night, but it seems to be easing up during the day a bit. So today I went out for my first run in 2.5 weeks. I took it very easy with five minutes’ walk to warm up and then 2:1 run/walk intervals (at a slow pace). I felt pretty good! I didn’t feel any need to cough during the running portions, but on the walks I could tell how weak my lungs are. It felt good to be out in the fresh air and sunshine though. I am excited to put November behind me and kick off my training plan for the Gold Coast Marathon!
Nov. 28: 2.81km (walking)
Dec. 1: 2.81km (walking)
Dec. 2: 4.06km
Total this week: 4.06km
Total in 2011: 974.02km (608.7mi)
To meet my goal of running 1100km in 2011, I’d need to run 126km in the next 4 weeks. That’s 31.5km a week. I don’t think it’s gonna happen, folks.