I came across a rather catchy song on how United Airlines broke a musician's guitar. Enjoy.

-Trevor

I was shopping at Albertsons the other day (though as Mike had mentioned when down here, it is not owned by Supervalu) when I came across some rhubarb for only $1.99 a pound. Of course everyone knows what one does with Rhubarb other than to collect its leaves for the toxic oxalic acid, make Strawberry-Rhubarb pie. I was going to originally use a recipe from Grandma's recipe books, but she did not include cook temperatures and times, definitely a no-no for someone just starting out in the pie trade. Instead I came across a rather simple recipe off of the Food Network. The ingredients are shown above.

The preparation was amazingly simple and I was amazed at how the sugar turned the mixture into a quasi-jelly. Even more amazing is my physics lesson on volume. I was certain I messed up my measuring that there was no way the amount in my mixing bowl would fit into my small pie tin (which I was able to by with a graham cracker crust in there.






I found out how unhealthy my pie is as well. I found a neat website at shopncook.com which can create custom nutrition labels so I gathered the nutrition information for my pie and created this label which should give everyone the impact that just one slice can have. Though it is definitely not as unhealthy as Death Pies. Though I suppose one could argue that even the Death Pies can be part of a balanced diet if kept to special occasions though I do wonder how my grade school classmates who had these every day for a snack didn't end up morbidly obese, though this may also be due to the fact that we weren't as slothful back then??

-Trevor

I woke up this morning and went for a run with a friend; it has certainly been a while since I have run a couple of miles. It felt really good to get up at 6 in the morning, sort of. It rained steadily during the night so it is very humid today, but at least there is not any dust in the air.

Hopefully everyone is going out and having a good day today. By virtue of not working all day as I did last year, I will have a wonderful day. I am attempting my first Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, I'm very excited. I will probably even document the experience. Also going to do some grilling this afternoon. Hopefully the pesky monsoon rains will hold off long enough.

By the way, I found a different host which seems to have more responsive servers than what I currently have. You can go check out my progress at my new site. I will eventually have this domain point to the new server so hopefully there should not be any problems with the transition, though if you happen to get the RSS feed of the blog, you may want to grab the new one.

Stay thirsty, my friends.

-Trevor

It has been over a year since I have last posted anything to this blog . After someone had hacked my host they posted a nasty little script on my site. I guess at the time I was rather busy in DC at the time and didn't have a chance to look at it and then time sort of passed. I thought I would spend a couple of minutes last night fixing the site, but that turned out longer than I had planned, but this was largely due (in my humble opinion) to my host whose server doesn't seem to be working consistently; I seem to be getting random errors that I don't seem to be able to consistently figure out. I am considering finding another host, but we will see what happens.

Everything does not seem to be yet fully functional, such as my Gallery, but I will have to look at that later.

-Trevor