Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

Last night, what a shock to see a young dead lizard in our room!

There has been a number of lizard morbidity in the apartment lately, beginning with the big dark scarred tail-less lizard we called the Big Boss. He fell from the ceiling with a loud splat right beside me.
After that was a small lizard […]

The fiesta went quite well this weekend - really noisy - and someone organized some parlor games for young people along our street. It was sunny all day and a group of gay performers visiting from Cavite entertained with their dances and fire-eating stunts. They came in via a jeepney hired for about 1,700 pesos […]

Here are two crocheted purses that I finished yesterday. These use thick yarn and the finer crocheting thread, as well as bright yellow-orange ribbons running through what are often referred to as “beading” in old crochet books.

I also managed to write a long-overdue text for the second in my Finding Linux series (thank […]

Yesterday I spent nearly the whole day cooking pancit canton - enough pancit for us and to give to our landlady upstairs and to my mom! It was Trevor’s birthday and when there’s birthday there has to be long noodles.
I guess the pancit canton wasn’t too bad. I put all the usual vegetables […]

The granny squares bag is finished! I’ve solved the purple yarn shortage by unraveling the purple half of the bag strap and then using that to replace the brown enclosure (added a nice big crystal button too). I used the rest of the purple yarn (with some pink crochet thread) to make a […]