{"id":1193,"date":"2012-08-12T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T03:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2012-08-12T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:11:38","slug":"the-weekend-without-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2012\/08\/the-weekend-without-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"the weekend without a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Friday morning my computer froze up and when I rebooted, it fell into a blue screen of death cycle. I tried the system repair tools, my recovery DVD, even an Ubuntu live DVD. Nothing would get all the way through the boot process. So I took it into a repair shop recommended by a friend to see if something was salvageable (since I&#8217;ve neglected updating my backup since the move). The repair guy ran a diagnostic on the hard drive and is pretty sure the data is ok, so that&#8217;s good news.\u00a0 The bad news was that it didn&#8217;t appear to have a quick fix solution, so I would have to check it in for service which has 3 &#8211; 4 business day turnaround right now.<\/p>\n<p>So with a weekend to kill and no computer I devoted my time to some projects in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>After my normal Saturday morning trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodfarmersmarket.org\">Hollywood Farmers Market<\/a>, I finally got around to making a batch of Kombucha with the kit I bought when I took a class on it a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"20120812_183958.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/wpid-20120812_183958.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to make a lemon cake in honor of my sad computer (and the novel <em>The Particular Sadness of Lemon<\/em> Cake) while grocery shopping. It had also been a friends birthday on Friday, so I was also making it for her birthday as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_20120812_182954.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/wpid-IMG_20120812_182954.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other main thing I did Saturday was get some photos taken of me by a friend (for better LinkedIn\/FB profile pics).\u00a0 Alicia and I both went and saw The Bourne Legacy at the same time (though her in LA and me in Portland).\u00a0 It was enjoyable&#8230;a <em>Bourne<\/em> movie, nothing special, but a good time.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend projects weren&#8217;t over though.\u00a0 After getting home from church, I made a batch of salsa:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"20120812_190054.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/wpid-20120812_190054.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it was the big project&#8230;canning the 5 lbs of green beans I had bought at the farmers market Saturday.\u00a0 I made them into Pickled Dilled Beans:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"20120812_185004.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/wpid-20120812_185004.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(the red thing in the jar is a slice of red bell pepper)<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I feel like I had a pretty productive weekend.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Friday morning my computer froze up and when I rebooted, it fell into a blue screen of death cycle. 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