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Monsoon Season Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Cooler Weather

I’m hoping that overcast today also means it’ll be cooler. It’s been warm the past few days….

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Moong Beans, er, um, Mung Beans, continued –

He decided to add some jaggery to it. Jaggery – well, there are some pretty good long…

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***Side note. Warning. Complete and total tangerine not even closely related to the thread above.

I think I need to talk to Fahim about a feature that I think needs to be…

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Fahim Ate Bugs. Nanner Nanner Boo Boo!!!!

Fahim finished off the mung beans this morning, complete with jaggery. Before we discuss the jaggery, we’ll…

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Cat Food Walking

Yup. There are ants here. Varieties of ants. They scavenge for food. They’ll haul away bread crumbs,…

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Newletters

Because I’m the token foreigner in the Relief Society presidency in our branch (a branch is a…

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Onwards and Upwards. Ho!Long Live Blog!!!!

Fahim is starting to have an increasingly large number of things going on – more programs he…

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More On Mung Beans, also known as Green Gram, also known as Mung Gram, also known as “what the hell is this????”

Fahim and I decided that we’re going to cook all the mung beans today, have some for…

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Thursdays are not Slurpee Days in Sri Lanka

I don’t think slurpees exist over here. If they do, why has no one pointed them out…

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More on Writing

When I went to OSC today to meet Michele and chat for an hour or so, she…

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Michele’s Bug De-Infestation Tips

I told Michele, when I met her at OSC, about the bug infestation problem, along with making…

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Curried Mung Beans

I took a look in my recipe database and found a recipe for curried mung beans. I…

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Insect Infestation

We have an infestation. In a closed, airtight container. Which can only mean one thing. The bugs…

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Brians and More Brians

Just as a comment, in case you don’t find it obvious. When I use brian in the…

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Insomnia

I think I’m going to write a book sometime called Insomnia. And yes, it’ll be fiction, and…

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More On Writing and Writers

And here’s what I pasted on the top of what I meant to bold: Khara enlists the…

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Sometimes I’m On Serious Drugs

And I stupefy even myself with silly acts. Like cutting or deleting something when I meant to…

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Speaking of Cold Showers

Have I mentioned? It’s cooler most days, plus we get a little bit less sun because the…

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Mornings Come Early

Fahim’s back to his regular schedule of waking at 5:45. He gets out of bed fairly shortly…

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Shark Meat

I cooked shark meat today. It was pretty interesting. It’s very tender, very white meat, with not…

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Sinhalese Lessons! Yay!!!!

Boo Hoo! They didn’t happen. They were supposed to. But they didn’t. A woman at church, Rosemary,…

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Sinhalese? Oder Tamil?

Because I’m either a geek or a ridiculous individual – you can vote on which one you…

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Think Maybe I Was A Little Tired

I was fading, so I lay down to take a nap. I put the alarm on for…

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Smallville

Because we’re obsessive people, we watched two more episodes of Smallville. Fahim gets irritated when I point…

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Lunch

You know, honestly, I’m a good cook. but today – well, sometimes life is just downright amusing….