Notes – Page 115 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 16 Sivan 5780 (Monday 8 June 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’ve taken the time to add shortcuts to my desktop for the tabs I normally keep open, so that I could adopt the practice of keeping my browser closed without tons of tabs open while I’m using it.

It helps me to focus on one thing at a time instead of flipping back and forth between distractions.

I’m also spending a lot more time away from the computer, and I generally feel better for it.

All of this helps me to dip my toes in as opposed to jumping in with both feet.

I’m not recommending it for everyone, but for me, it’s been a great help.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 15 Sivan 5780 (Sunday 7 June 2020) · 2 minutes to read

Breakfast turned out to be an unmitigated disaster.

First, the back story. We’re trying to cook more, because the diet recommendations from John’s doctor lean towards the Mediterranean diet. This means good food, but it also means very much less processed stuff, which means more cooking because things like veggie trays and pitas with hummus can’t be meals all the time. So, this means I’m experimenting with more cooking, which I really like to do but haven’t had a chance to do for a very long time.

So this morning, scrambled eggs. Not that hard. Except cook with olive oil instead of butter. And here’s where things go south.

Turn the burner on, set it to medium. So far, so good. And then we get to measuring the olive oil. You don’t need that much, and not a lot was my plan, but I learned too late that the bottle has a huge pouring opening so guess what happens?

By the end of it, John’s eggs were burned and had way too much olive oil, the frozen onions definitely didn’t work out, my eggs were burned, there’s a huge mess that still has to be cleaned up, and we’re just going to order something.

Thankfully John was a good sport about all of it. I’m still very pissed off and a little upset about it all though because scrambled eggs aren’t supposed to be hard and if scrambled eggs turned out to be such a huge disaster then God only knows what other stuff will turn out like.

I’m sure a year from now I’ll be better at all this but I was really looking forward to both of us having a nice breakfast and I really am trying to get the hang of cooking everything and it was extremely disappointing to have things turn out the way they did.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 27 Iyyar 5780 (Thursday 21 May 2020) · 1 minute to read

WPEngine is once again reminding me why I started the project to move my personal site and John’s personal site off of their platform.

Don’t get me wrong. They’re great if you want something you don’t have to manage and that you need stability for, like a business site, and/or especially a site with ECommerce.

But I’m fighting with Indieweb stuff again, and I’m reasonably certain that they still don’t have data on any of these plugins, so I’ll end up spending hours on the phone with them to try to find out why I’m once again having issues with only certain micropub things. I need to just get down to it and finish setting up the other server.

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