Masa, $2.79 per bag. Makes 128 tortillas. 6 tortillas. 21¢

Beef stir-fry meat, $3.99 per pound. ⅓ pound. $1.33

Cheddar cheese, $6 per pound. ⅛ pound. 75¢

Sour cream .$1.89 for 8 ounces. 1 ounce. 23¢

⅓ pound of onion. 89¢ per pound. 30¢

A little oil, a little garlic, oregano, rosemary, cayenne. 25¢ at most since I buy in bulk.

$3.07. Feeds two.

I just had dinner with my mother. It was so good to catch up, since my parents have been away for seven months. I got to see photos of the places they stayed in Northe Carolina, and to start to get a feel for what it was like there.

As she was leaving this evening, she started to cry, saying “I feel like I lost you somewhere along the way. We’re so distant”

I’m not entirely sure what to do with this.

Disability and class (Feministe), an excellent essay, starting off as personal touch and coming to some conclusions. The comments are good.

Presente is an organization, mostly latino, for immigration policy reform.

The Purity Myth (a book, read exerpt online with google). I’m inclined to agree that the notion of ‘virginity’ has to go away.

Stumbling on Success is an amazingly good article.

A survey about beliefs on the nature of consent. Mind-bendingly good. Good stuff to ponder.

Mix:

1 tablespoon yeast 2 tablespoons vital wheat gluten 1/4 cup buckwheat or rye flour 2 cups flour 2 cups water

Let sit 30 minutes

Add:

1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon dill weed, cut 1 tablespoon dill seed, whole 1 tablespoon caraway seed, whole 2 cups of flour, kneading the last bit in

Knead and add flour until a firm dough is formed

Let rise until double

Punch down and shape into loaves – rounds and sandwich loaves both work great.

Let rise until they’ve increased halfway, then bake at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes.

I woke up this morning to being trapped under blankets, in the night I’d twisted myself up and gotten tangled. After the panic subsided, I re-arranged my blankets and tried to get back to sleep. I mostly failed. I’m dreaming a lot about money these days, and it keeps on going right into waking. I can’t wait to have the office moved and actually have my expenses drop off a bit. Soon. So soon.

As I’m drifting off to sleep, I squirm a little and the cat leaps off the bed, having interpreted my motion as being caught in the act of peeing in my bed. This is a new trick that I am very much not impressed with. I shove the wet blankets off the side of the bed and try to go back to sleep. Fail.

So I’m up. I feel angsty, out of touch with my body and just not very happy.

I’ve had a customer who’s a partly out-of-work furniture maker. I keep helping him with his financial software, and he’s owed me a bit of money. Today, it all came more than even in a trade. We just received a custom-made kitchen prep table!

So I went on a bender last night.

Ouch.

Dear Sun:

You can come back now.

Happy Solstice,

Me

Pro-life? Look at the fruits by Dr. Glen Harold Stassen (Sojourners):

I am a Christian ethicist, and trained in statistical analysis. I am consistently pro-life. My son David is one witness. For my family, “pro-life” is personal. My wife caught rubella in the eighth week of her pregnancy. We decided not to terminate, to love and raise our baby. David is legally blind and severely handicapped; he also is a blessing to us and to the world.

I look at the fruits of political policies more than words. I analyzed the data on abortion during the George W. Bush presidency. There is no single source for this information - federal reports go only to 2000, and many states do not report - but I found enough data to identify trends. My findings are counterintuitive and disturbing.

The article is really excellent.

We’ve got four runtimes for Objective C now: Apple/NeXT’s, Cocotron’s, the GNU Objective C runtime, and Etoile’s.

Every one requires a modified version of the compiler, meaning three sets of patches to the compiler, plus one included by default. The default runtime is arguably the most limited and antiquated of them all.

Time for a change, folks?

(Anyone want to help write a pluggable backend and simultaneously help me target GObject?)

400 g white fish, steamed 50 ml brown rice syrup 50 ml soy sauce a big pinch dry basil

1 onion, chopped and sauteed in oil mix and stir to coat Serve on top of ramen noodles

Serves 2.

Chop 1 head romaine lettuce Add 350g feta cheese, crumbled Add one cucumber, halved then sliced thin

Mix 150ml olive oil a few good pinches of garlic powder and oregano leaf Add a pinch of salt, a dash of black pepper Add 100ml red wine vinegar

Stir and pour on salad, serve.

1.5L water squeeze of lime juice 50mL fish sauce spoonful of dulse

Heat to simmer

Ladle a bit of broth on top of 150g miso, let sit

slice 2 carrots ½ small daikon 3 mushrooms 1/8 onion 6 brussels sprouts, halved

250g tofu, chunks

Add to broth and simmer until delicately done

Add miso mixture to soup, stir and serve.