Happiness is finding new projects, and this time it's unique wooden coolers.

An epic lunch from this week, taken with an Olympus evolt e-300.
Figs with prosciutto, mozzarella, basil and a honey vinaigrette.

Now taking applications for dinner parties this winter.

I attempted to go to sleep ridiculously early. This did not work.
Instead, after contemplating my sins for a good 2 hours, I got up and made these:

Savory Tasty-Pie Things.

* 1 sheet of puff pastry, thawed (I know, I suck. I didn’t make my own this time.)
* Candied Tomatoes (Recipe and cheating version follows)
* Herbed Yogurt Cheese (Recipe and cheating version follows)
* 1 egg, farm fresh. ( This is Portland, kids. )
* salt, dried basil + oregano + god knows what else

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees when you think the apartment will not melt from turning the oven on.

Domestic Engineering is a much better way to think about housecare and everything that you do that supports you. Let's be serious here. When your kitchen is full of dirty dishes and you can't get water out of the tap, you are not in a happy place. It is a gross unhappy place that lets everything pile up and it's deeply unfortunate and you really don't have to do that. 

Hence the 'Yes You Can' moment. It's just keeping up with the small things and not letting it get out of hand.

I've been saying for some time that I'd wanted to separate out the 'domestic engineering' side from the general tech and other ridiculousness into a separate space, and traditionallysubversive is it. 

This is where the 'High Octane Living' posts  will show up, the 10 steps to a house (whenever that happens) and probably some excellent parties as those get documented. Oh, and as I'm running this in Drupal, expect new features periodically as I decide that it's absolutely necessary. 

Forthcoming: 

• A Project Manager Takes On A House 
• Domestic Engineering - taking FOSS and software development