Michael Buffington

I’ve shifted the direction of my diet ever so slightly, but I think for the better. When eating food, I’m being careful about avoiding trans fat, high fructose corn syrup, and anything hydrogenated. I’m not doing it 100% of the time, but I think any shift in that direction is good.

Interestingly, the first time I made a meal that had no hydrogenated fat, no corn syrup, and was low in sodium, the meal was incredibly filling. I had heard that corn syrup blocks a certain protein that tells your brain you’re full, and I’m beginning to put some faith in that.

Well, I didn’t do it, but the robots did.

Eating lettuce out of your own backyard is sublime.

I want to meet them face to face, shake their hands, take their pictures, and post a story about them on a blog. The Maurice blog. It might take me a lifetime.

It was easier than I thought. But now I have a home equity loan to pay off, but at least it’s lower interest and tax deductible. Also, if I were to sell the house today, I’d still make a profit after paying off the home equity loan. I’m considering it as good as paid for. I also paid off the auto loan, which nearly finished anyhow, but feels great to know I now officially own it.

Congratulations sister!

I struggled for a long time until about five minutes ago. I’d use the dock half the time, and Quicksilver for the other half. Today I totally broke my bad behavior by breaking the dock, or rather, just ripping every icon off of it. It totally and completely did the trick. I still go down to the dock every so often, but my brain kicks in and says “Can’t find it! Where is it! quick, summon quicksilver!” and all is good.

I’ve actually started. I don’t have the entire story thought out, but have a significant start (several chapters now). I’ve written huge technical books before, and I understand that books are just made of lots of words that you must put down on “paper”. So, a lot of what I’m writing is very rough, very much at the macro level. But there’s a definite joy in going back and refining the bigger picture stuff. That’s where the story begins to happen, and sometimes shifts the remaining bigger picture stuff, but at a fair price.

I can code in object oriented systems, but I still don’t feel like I truly have a solid understanding of the concepts. This kind of thing bugs me.

My reef tank has a blog (though I don’t post often enough) at www.cubereef.com

I want use Quicksilver instead of the OS X Dock first, and then see if I can use it to replace Finder (much more ambitious).