Month: October 2003

Breakfast was cereal with a sliced banana again this morning.



<ins datetime="2003-10-08T14:47:00-05:00">I went for a walk over to the Telcommunications Building again today and had a granola bar on the way.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-08T20:08:00-05:00">Gretchen made chicken pie tonight. I had two pieces and two beers (oink, oink).</ins>

Breakfast was cereal with a sliced banana this morning.



<ins datetime="2003-10-07T11:27:00-05:00">This morning I went for a walk over to the Telcommunications Building &mdash; about two miles round trip &mdash; and then had a granola bar &mdash; OK, actually I had two.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-07T12:56:00-05:00">I figured that maybe I was going to be having these granola bars as a snack from now on &mdash; better than a bag of potato chips &mdash; so I went out to Walmart and bought a box. The box containing six bars cost $1.88 &mdash; about $0.31 a piece &mdash; compare that to $0.80 a piece when bought from the vending machine. Oh, I also refilled my <a href="http://www.centrum.com/" title="Centrum®: Wyeth Consumer Healthcare">Centrum</a>, which I take one of every day.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-08T08:39:00-05:00">Gretchen made <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&amp;id=recipe2784" title="Eleanora’s Eggplant Parmigiana">Eleanora&rsquo;s Eggplant Parmigiana</a> for dinner. I had seconds and accompanied it with two beers (oink).</ins>

The <a href="http://www.cas.psu.edu/" title="PSU College of Ag Sciences">Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences</a> <a href="http://www.extension.psu.edu/" title="Cooperative Extension and Outreach">Agricultural Research and Cooperative Extension</a> has an interesting little <a href="http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/" title="Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications">publication</a> in their <a href="http://agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/" title="Agricultural Alternatives - Penn State Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology">Agricultural Alternatives</a> line about <a href="http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/FreePubs/pdfs/ua313.pdf" title="Asparagus Production">Asparagus Production</a> [PDF]. Here is a list of the ones I thought looked interesting (there are many more).

• Fruit and Vegetable Marketing for Small-Scale and Part-Time Growers
• Highbush Blueberry Production
• Boarding Horses
• Sweet Corn Production
• Broccoli Production
• Irrigation for Fruit and Vegetable Production
• Red Raspberry Production
• Financing Small-Scale and Part-Time Farms
• Cantaloupe Production
• Bell Pepper Production
• Snap Bean Production
• Strawberry Production
• Tomato Production
• Pumpkin Production
• Beekeeping
• Onion Production
• Asparagus Production
• Cucumber Production
• Small-Scale Egg Production
• Potato Production
• Drip Irrigation for Vegetable Production

Cereal again this morning.



<ins datetime="2003-10-06T13:37:00-05:00">Lunch was a bag of chips and a four mile walk.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-06T15:59:00-05:00">This afternoon I broke down and had a <a href="http://www.naturevalley.com/Products2.htm" title="Welcome to Nature Valley: Products">Nature Valley Oats &rsquo;N Honey Crunchy Granola Bar</a> (180 Calories).</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-06T19:31:00-05:00">Salad and a beer for dinner. Gretchen found some low fat blue cheese dressing. I could not tell the difference.</ins>

The freezer is almost full with bounty from our garden, but we still have a large bowl of tomatoes left from what we picked before the frost this past week so we are trying to use them up. Tonight we are making up a batch of chili freeze.

Breakfast this morning was an omelet made with left over peppers, onions, and salsa from the fajitas last night, a slice of toast with butter, and a glass of orange juice.



<ins datetime="2003-10-05T14:02:00-05:00">Lunch again consisted of a hand full of peanuts and a beer.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-05T19:41:00-05:00">Dinner was two fajitas made from last night&rsquo;s left-overs, enough tortilla chips to finish off the salsa, and two beers.</ins>

I found the cool JavaScript/CSS hack to <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/nicetitle/" title="Nice titles">show link titles nicely</a> by Stuart Langridge at <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/" title="kryogenix.org">kryogenix.org</a>. I have modified it to work with acronyms, abbreviations, and definitions, and have modified it to work properly with inserted text.

The trees are filled with migrating birds. It sounds like some great rusted metal machine gone mad.

We have wood heat and in the eleven years I have lived in this cabin I cannot remember ever having had to start a fire so early.

In the truth in advertising category, I thought I would document where I got the HTML code for the banner at the top of the page before I forgot. I think it came from the <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/" title="A List Apart: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques">Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques</a> column that <a href="http://gnuhaus.com/iblog/" title="iBlog - still putting the &quot;blah&quot; in blog...">Mark Newhouse</a> wrote for <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/" title="A List Apart, for people who make websites { tease }">A List Apart</a> as modified by <a href="http://www.bigtrouble.com/ala_119_opt.htm" title="bigtrouble - A List Apart #119: A Miniscule Optimization">A Miniscule Optimization</a> from <a href="http://www.bigtrouble.com/" title="bigtrouble">Bryn Dyment</a>.



Now that I look again, I see that Mark has a clever way to get rid of tables used for form formatting like I currently use for my contact page. Perhaps I will try to reformat that page using his techniques.