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Adding to my wide wide world of skills.

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Saturday night one of my roommates had a craving for beef udon.

We had none. The other of the roommates is sick – my room is in the basement and I have been woken up by her coughing.

So I went to the store, because Safeway’s online ordering service indicated they had beef udon. It did not. (I have since learned it may in fact be refrigerated, not either dry like Top Ramen, or frozen, and I may have needed to look elsewhere.)

I thought for a bit. Well, I said to myself. There’s udon noodles. And… hm. there’s beef broth…

You can see where this is going, I’m sure.

I got some very thinly sliced top round steak, and went home.

Beef broth in pot, heated up. Steak cut into small bits and tossed into broth to cook in there. Then the noodles tossed in.

About ten minutes later, there was a respectable beef udon-a-like, and my roommate was happy.

Next time I think I’ll see if I can do other things to make it a bit closer to the idea. But it was a moment of inspiration and I think it worked out well.

So: I now can apparently made beef udon. Go me.

Another example of my problem-solving skills, I think.

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A bit of clarification:

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If you’re looking for me on Facebook, my personal is Geoff Depew; the one that my WordPress blog autoposts to is Geoffrey Depew.

Similarly, my public twitter is @mephron while the one for the WordPress stuff – the more professional things – is @geoffdepew.

If I mention one or the other, it’s not meant to be hiding things, it’s just that I wanted to separate things a little bit.

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Skill advancement!

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I created a new header for the page. I decided I wanted a bit more to it, and I kind of like how it came out.

The hard part was the Power Glove (yes I know) not having a white ring around it, but I managed to brute-force a solution that I think worked out pretty well. I like the look of it, the new subtitle, and you know, I think I’m getting a bit better at some of this stuff.

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Rather chilly…

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It snowed here yesterday.

Now, while this may not be surprising for many of you, where I’m from in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area, we haven’t had real snow before Christmas in… wow. Somewhere in the 1980s. So having snow here was interesting and kind of special.

Thanksgiving preparation continues.

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It occurs to me…

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…that this year is the first Thanksgiving that I will spend away from my family since the mid-90s.

I wouldn’t be there regardless – if I had not been laid off from Citigroup, I would have been working that day. (The department I was in had to have people there every day, including weekends and holidays. We rotated through Saturdays, and then had weekends. The first year I was there, I had Labor Day stuck to me, which was a pain because I had originally planned to go to a gathering in Atlanta, Ga, that happens over Labor Day weekend; this would have been the second full year there, and I would have been stuck with Thanksgiving.)

I plan to call on Thursday, maybe see if I can get them on Facetime or iChat and talk to people, including my niece and nephews, just to say hello.

But yeah, it’s kind of interesting this year.

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Checking in.

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Things have been quiet the past few days. All three of us in the house I live in have been various kinds of not feeling well, and the cats (two live here) have both been pretty quiescent as well.

I’m hoping to present at the next Seattle WordPress Meetup on adding social media crossposting to your WordPress site, as I’m going using Twitter Tools, Wordbooker and LiveJournal Crossposter to put things out.

Just to note, the Twitter account for here is http://twitter.com/geoffdepew and the Facebook is Geoffrey Depew, in case you want to add those.

As I said, it’s been quiet, but things may be moving forwards.

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