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Food Log
Orange juice for breakfast.
<ins datetime="2003-11-04T12:58:00-05:00">Lunch was two granola bars and a nearly three mile walk. It is another beautiful sunny 79° day today with only 28% humidity. I love the quality of the light on autumn days like this one. The low angle makes it seem like late afternoon sunlight all day long — lighting everything dramatically and makeing long shadows on the walkways. Filtered through the brown, orange, and gold autumn leaves, it is as if the sun were shining through the stained glass windows of some great cathedral — showing off the majesty and the natural beauty of this campus.</ins>
<ins datetime="2003-11-04T20:04:00-05:00">Dinner was a salad and a glass of apple juice.</ins>
Panther Upgrade
I just ordered <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/" title="Apple - Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a> Panther from the <a href="http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/routingpage.html" title="The Apple Store">Apple Store for Education</a>.
Webmaster’s Log/Editorial Calendar
I am thinking about adding some new content. One thing would be a site search capability using Perl along the lines of the recently added Comments capability. In addition, I would like to add some XHTML/CSS tutorials along the lines of explaining how the items on my site work. Here are some early ideas:
- What is the basic structure of the page? (three column with header and footer)
- How does the top banner work?
- How is today’s date displayed?
- How does the Journal work?
- How are the menu buttons on the left done?
- How are the stock charts displayed?
- How are the tool tips displayed?
- How do the comments on the journal work?
Food Log
Breakfast was a bowl of mixed fruit — <a href="http://www.tablegrape.com/consumers/variety.asp?load=variety3.asp&section=consumers" title="Grapes - California Table Grape Commission">California seedless grapes</a>, pineapple, and watermellon.
<ins datetime="2003-11-03T14:45:00-05:00">Lunch was a three mile walk — it being a beautiful sunny 78° autumn day — and a granola bar.</ins>
<ins datetime="2003-11-03T20:08:00-05:00">Dinner was a salad with two glasses of apple cider.</ins>
My Mother’s Dump Cake
This is my mother’s “Dump Cake” recipe. It is her recipe in the sense that I got it from her. She told me she got it from a friend, who got it from a friend. Since everybody is separated by no more than <a href="http://smallworld.columbia.edu/" title="Small World Project - Columbia University">six degrees of separation</a>, that means that half of you already know this recipe… but here it is anyway. Looks weird, tastes great.
Dump Cake
- 1 20 ounce can cherry pie filling
- 1 20 oz can crushed pineapple
- 1 yellow cake mix
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 stick butter
In a 9- by 13-inch greased pan, spread the pineapple then the pie filling. Then sprinkle on the dry cake mix, then the pecans, and finally crumble the butter over the top.
Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes.
Food Log
We finished our road trip today. A glass of orange juice for breakfast and chicken, beef, and pork sandwiches on cracked wheat. Gretchen also got us a couple of <a href="http://www.hersheys.com/products/reese.shtml" title="Hershey Foods Corporation - Reese's Peanut Butter Cups">Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups</a> as a snack at a gas station as well.
<ins datetime="2003-11-03T06:08:00-05:00">I had some of our own frozen Italian sausage with sautéed green peppers and onions and a beer after we got home.</ins>
Food Log
We are back on the road again today, starting out early to make good miles. Breakfast was a glass of orange juice, car food again throughout the day — chicken, ham, and roast beef sandwiches on cracked wheat, cashews, raisins, and dates. Chips and dip for dinner.
Food Log
Breakfast was fruit again this morning, though slightly different — pineapple, strawberries, grapes, and watermelon — with a glass of orange juice.
<ins datetime="2003-10-31T17:38:00-05:00">Lunch was french onion soup and a bottle of pinot grigio, though this was a different brand: <a href="http://www.winespectatorschool.com/Wine/Daily/Wine_Print/0,2466,1364,00.html" title="Wine Spectator Online | Wine of the Day | Zenato Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie 2002">Zenato® Pinot Grigio Della Venezie (2002)</a>. We did go to the beach this morning, but it got a bit to hot for us and after playing in the tide pools for a while, we simply went home. We did get a chance to see some fiddler crabs, though.</ins>
<img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/fiddler.jpg" height="256" width="341" alt="Fiddler Crab" />
<ins datetime="2003-10-31T21:38:00-05:00">Dinner was pork tenderloin, braised in apple juice, with apples, fingerling potatoes, crook-necked squash, and a bottle of Bolla Valpolicella. Dessert was <a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/2003_11_01_journal.html#id106782430130638179" title="My Mother's Dump Cake">dump cake</a>. Dad opened a bottle of champagne — <a href="http://www.champagne-roederer.com/style/us/flash/brutprem.html" title="Brut premier">Louis Roederer Champagne Brut Premier®</a> — in honor of our last day of vacation.</ins>
Food Log
Breakfast was mixed fruit — pineapple, cantaloupe, and strawberries — once again, and a glass of orange juice.
Lunch was a cup of left-over potato-leek soup, left-over king crab legs, and another bottle of pinot grigio — apparently, mom really likes pinot gririo. No walk on the beach today, though we did drive through <a href="http://www.dingdarling.org/wildlife.html" title="Ding Darling Foundation">J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge</a>. There wasn’t a lot of wildlife — they have only just started draining the fresh water part for the winter — but we did get a beautiful view of a <a href="http://www.ci.sanibel.fl.us/calendar/COVERSTORY2002.htm" title="City of Sanibel 2002 Calendar">Tri-colored Heron</a> (a.k.a. <a href="http://www.audubon.org/bird/BoA/F38_G1k.html" title="Louisiana Heron">Louisiana Heron</a>).
<img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/tri-color-heron.jpg" height="256" width="341" alt="Tri-Color Heron" />
<ins datetime="2003-10-30T20:37:00-05:00">Dinner was rosemary roasted chicken, with mashed potatoes and pan gravy, cranberry dressing, asparagus, and a bottle of — you guessed it — pinot grigio. Dessert was butterscotch sundays with cashews.</ins>