Mike Divell

Of no interest to anyone but myself, here's the food I ate in my 1-night solo camp trip. Yummy, for no-cook camping food.

Harvest foodworks mediterranean pasta
238g
2x 380 calories (only ate half - perfect for sharing)

Backpacker's pantry pad thai
230g
2x 460 calories

nature valley granola bar
46g
220 calories

clif bar - almond fudge
68g
250 calories

emergen-c drink mix
1600% recommended minimum intake of vitamin c, plus other goodes, 20 calories

The end boss was hard. And getting marks back online is the academia equivalent of "Thank you Mike!!! But our princess is in another castle!"

Still a good feeling. Quantum turned into a B, by some voodoo magic of grade curving. Apparently failing the midterm and the final is just accepted as normal. That means NO MORE MATH CLASSES! I got B's in my complex calculus and partial differential equations classes, and that's the end of that now.

FREEDOM! :)

Going from a full backyard to a tiny balcony has been a bit of a shock. Now that spring is here, I'm trying to see how we can make the best of it. With the Adanac st house sold (bye-bye to all our garden efforts) there were a few plants up for grabs.

Here we've got (top row from left) yarrow, more yarrow, lavender (J. bought this one), mint, parsley, and a pot with cilantro seeds. (middle row) lemon balm, sage, chamomile. (deck level) kale, arugula, chives and chard

That winterfest ale? Never decided to carbonate :(
It seems my yeasty friends either decided to take a hike, or else something caused them all to meet an untimely end. Sunlight can kill yeast, and with the longer daylight hours the little apartment has been a lot sunnier....

Having newly found myself with less space to work with, making my own beer has required some creative solutions. Gone are the giant laundry sinks and endless shelves for holding carboys and bottles. A trip to my local homebrew shop shortly after moving in solved a lot of issues. I came back with a sink attachment that will pressurewash a bottle, a "bottle tree" for drying bottles, and new iodine sanitizer that doesn't need 15 minutes of soaking time to do its job.

Anyone who's had a website with user-generated content knows that this is a problem. Forums, picture galleries, BLOGs and whatnot are just magnets for useless ads. The SPAMbots are getting smarter, and they can often pass the test which are designed to filter them out.

Hey internets. Sorry I haven't wrote in a while. I know you've heard it all before, I'll spare you the lame excuses. Only thing worse than an out-of-date blog is the lame "sorry I've been busy lately" posts that follow it.

Out with the old:

It's a sad day on Adanac St. Turns out our chickens weren't quite bylaw compliant after all. Bantam chickens need to be purebreed bantams, not just small-bred chickens. Apparently there is a difference

So, we've given our girls away to a new home - a nice family from Chemainus who has a flock of chickens already, plus several goats and sheep. It's not the end of the world, since we wouldn't have gotten eggs through the winter anyway without some complicated heat lamp setup.

TL:DR version: I have data. I'm excited. YAY! :)

Long version: It's only mid-July and I have preliminary results for my summer research project! "Only mid July"?? I can't believe I'm writing this - summer is flying past, as only hot and happy summers can do. But the point here isn't to mourn the passing of summer, but to celebrate some data!