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This afternoon a private plane took off from the river. It was pretty exciting to watch. We had someone who flies his own plane down at the office once and he said it would be a tricky take off because you have to negotiate the bridges. He said the way he’d do it would be to start the takeoff from under the Marquam heading down river and then you’d have lots of room to clear the Hawthorne. Well, today the pilot started at the Hawthorne, started the take off upriver, was airborne just under the Marquam and when he cleared the Marquam, cranked it pretty steep to clear the Ross Island. I’ll bet everyone’s peanuts fell into their laps.

I’m getting ready to go to San Diego tomorrow with my girlfriends for our annual big adventure. We’re renting this Real World Beverly Hills House with rooftop Jacuzzi and all I can say is the sun had better be shining.

Why is it always such a frazzle to get out of town? Probably so that you can appreciate it more when you get there.

How can you tell if buttermilk has gone bad? I mean besides using it in cooking and then ending up half the night with roiling innards. It did smell a little bit sour — but then, it IS buttermilk. I used it on the 4th and the pull date was the 6th and to my knowledge it had been properly refrigerated. I’m about 99% certain that the buttermilk caused my digestive woes.

I’m searching for a webhost — if you like your webhost and it’s not in anyway connected to Darthlink, let me know. I need a new ISP too because Darthlink bites it bad. Too bad I paid for an entire year back in November shortly before they terminated all the special extras. Man, I loathe big corporate dorks.

I had a weird weekend and I’m a bit off and cranky. I don’t even know what I want or what I’m missing. Just reviewing my life’s accomplishments and feeling like a big loser.

I still want to re-do my blog basic look but I’m afraid I will screw it all up and get busted somehow by some nameless, faceless somebodies.

My home computer is acting incompetent. My ISP is completely incompetent. I couldn’t get email all day yesterday because of some kind of timeout error. This is after a month of spotty service. Why would Darthlink come along and buy my happy local ISP and then proceed to eliminate everything remotely special about their service and provide service so lame that it has completely alienated the entire customer base? I don’t like them, but how many people really like their ISP?

This morning I looked in the backyard and saw Duchess (neighbor’s white cat) hunched over a black feathery body. Then I noticed that there was this chaos of birds circling over our yard making all kinds of noise. Duchess is now gone as is the chaos but the body is still there. I’m tempted to go look.

I could think of a lot more things to say every day before I started the blog. I’m not sure what that means.

Weds was my last belly dancing class and we ended doing this thing where you had to do a solo in front of the class. I was completely mortified. The teacher said she didn’t care what we did, we would just hip bump across the room but all these gals were stopping in the middle of the room and twirling and shimmying. I was thinking of any way to get out of it including taking a 10 minute pee break but they still hadn’t gotten to my turn when I got back so I just did these huge steps across the floor and finished my “solo” in about 6 seconds. Yay me. A night of immense personal growth.

Today something on my work computer melted down and wouldn’t let me get on the web. Every URL I typed in, it said “can’t find that server” and I tried all these tricks and basically my whole computer at work is now screwed up for anything on Netscape. It was totally aggravating and I said the f-word 7 times and now I owe the potty mouth jar $1.75. I couldn’t even pay up because I used all my cash to pay for lunch.

This has been a good weekend with decent weather. I finished reading Cruddy and I’d have a hard time recommending it. It’s not that it isn’t a good book, but it’s very dark and joyless, so if you’re going to read it, be prepared.

Since the sun is out I am trying to talk myself into getting out in the yard and doing something. Any work I do now I will be grateful for later. I haven’t completely convinced myself yet.

Maybe the PamBlog will be about cooking.

Tonight I made this deep dish pizza recipe from Cooks Illustrated. I used another Cooks Ill recipe for BBQ sauce and then baked chicken in the BBQ sauce. Then I added some BBQ sauce to pizza sauce and put the whole bucket on the pizza. It was pretty damn good. I made an apple pie too.

I want my own cooking show.