Finished my tenth speech!

I'm now eligible for the Competent Toastmaster (CTM) award! Hooray, hooray! My tenth speech was named "Cook or Die", and I talked about how cooking means happiness, comfort and love. =) It was good practice for the upcoming club competition.

The club gave me a CTM pin and a very interesting book entitled "48 Laws of Power". They also signed a card... Awww! =)

Happy, happy, joy, joy!

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Sweet potato and chicken vinaigrette salad

Level up!

  • Purple sweet potato, cubed (1 inch)
  • Chicken breast, cubed: can be leftovers
  • Lettuce
  • Vinaigrette, or balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper
  1. Put potato cubes in microwaveable container with a little bit of water.
  2. Cover and microwave the potato for 3 minutes, or until soft.
  3. Heat olive oil in a pan over medium-high heat.
  4. Brown the chicken cubes in the pan.
  5. Make vinaigrette by mixing balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
  6. Tear the lettuce into bits.
  7. Drain the potato cubes and add them to the lettuce.
  8. Add the chicken cubes to the lettuce.
  9. Drizzle dressing. Delicious!

I know, I know, I said I'd never buy a whole chicken again, but Dominion had a two-for-one chicken sale! I froze one and stuffed the other with apples and onions before roasting it. That's why I had plenty of cooked chicken on hand. I needed to find interesting ways to use the fruits and vegetables from the Good Food Box. In particular, I had a head of quickly-wilting romaine lettuce, and I wanted to use the sweet potatoes (kamote! yay!).

I Googled up a recipe for chicken sweet potato salad and threw everything together quickly. It was a nice meal, and I liked the way the sweet potato contrasted with the balsamic vinegar. =)

Happy girl. Level up!

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Good Food Box: Pear Poofery

Here's what in the Good Food Box for this fortnight:

2 lbs purple sweet potatoes
2.5 lbs yukon gold potatoes
1 broccoli
2 lbs carrots
1 pack mushrooms
1 lb beets
1 head romaine lettuce
1.5 lbs apples
1 bunch bananas
4 oranges
1.5 lbs pears

Help! Must figure out how to cook beets, pears... Waaah!

I think I'm going to make pear pie.

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Debian’s still alive!

What do you know... Debian's still accepting applications after all! =)

I just got e-mail from the Debian Account Manager, months and months after I finished all the Debian Developer requirements. I'm not knocking Debian. It's a volunteer thing, and I know what it's like to run out of time/brainspace... Anyway, I've since then passed my main package to a new maintainer (and a very very good one, at that!), and I haven't really been working on my second package (remember-el). I promise to release another version of remember-el by the end of this week, and perhaps I'll look into packaging some of the other Emacs Lisp things that I use.

I've gotten this far. Might as well finish it. =)

E-Mail from Joerg Jaspert

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Insulated

For all the chaos and turmoil rocking the Philippines—from natural disasters like the landslide that buried a village to man-made disasters like our government—I still love my country, and I still wish I were there instead of insulated by distance and time.

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