http://www.prpl.net Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:32:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2+ years without a blog post. Whoops. Let's see if I can provide a quick update. Still in school. Sept 2007 - Dan proposed :) Juggled wedding planning and grad school - I don't recommend it Sept 2008 - Got married and went to Maui for our honeymoon Yep, still in school. ... http://www.prpl.net/archives/oh-right-my-blog/63 Ok, I have to join the rest of the baker-blogger world and share my experience w/ No Knead Bread. The rage was started when Mark Bittman wrote an article for the NYT about Jim Lahey’s method. The recipe Bittman put into print varies somewhat from the recipe in ... http://www.prpl.net/archives/no-knead-bread/62 With the advent of Google Calendar, I now have zero reason to maintain ties to Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, or any other mail/calendar/contacts organizational software. Drag and drop GUI, a horde of public calendars already containing any event I might care about, easy one-click filters to show or ... http://www.prpl.net/archives/church-of-google/61 We signed the lease yesterday, and Dan cut Helen the Landlady a check for a hefty chunk of the security deposit. The girl living in the apartment now is leaving at the end of the month, so we're planning to go back sometime in May to measure rooms ... http://www.prpl.net/archives/finalized/60 ...but unless we find something better (pretty damn hard in this town), I think we're living here come August. :) We get the 1st floor (it's a duplex), one bay of the garage, as well as a ton of storage and our own washer/dryer in the basement. ... http://www.prpl.net/archives/the-lease-hasnt-been-signed/59 My room smells better than yours. http://www.prpl.net/archives/pretty/58 I dubbed him the Beer Man. He showed up after I started to shovel off the balcony and thought, "there's so much snow here I could build a snowman or something..." http://www.prpl.net/archives/meet-my-new-friend/57 A recipe for slush: http://www.prpl.net/archives/holiday-cooking/56 My iPod, orderd last Friday night, arrived early Tuesday morning from China. Crazy fast work on the parts of Apple and FedEx. It's super pretty - pics will be coming soon. In other news, school has pretty much been more of the same. Biochem class and ... http://www.prpl.net/archives/checking-in/55 Edit: It shipped!! http://www.prpl.net/archives/yay/54