flying on a weird gust since 1994
As mentioned previously, my side project, the Austin Fanzine Project has been taking up a lot of my spare time for the last year or so. It’s been super-fun and I’ve already learned a lot. You can learn about it too (and help!!) over at the AFP website. Stay tuned to the AFP Facebook page (&/or Twitter) to be informed about some local AFP events coming up this fall…
I bought myself a super-cheap home-roasting rig “for Christmas” and I just tried it out for the first time tonight.
I read up on how to go about using a hot-air corn popper to roast the green beans I’d ordered from Sweet Maria’s, gathered all the necessary supplies, then proceeded to roast!
It went pretty well. It took longer than I had expected, but that’s probably just because the literature stresses vigilance, as the process can change rapidly from one moment to the next.
I never heard the “second crack” sound, which was to have been my signal to stop roasting (or at least think about stopping). Instead, I stopped around 14 minutes, 10 seconds, when I started worrying I’d burn the beans.
I have to wait until morning to try them. Until then, they’ll rest in this handy CO2 -releasing can I got from Sweet Maria’s.
Look who I got for Hanukkah:
photo class, originally uploaded by lasuprema.I’m taking a really short, really basic point-n-shoot photography class. I took away a couple of quick tips from last night’s class. Mostly, though, it just made me sit down and investigate my camera for a couple of hours — something I never take time to do. Now I have some homework: I’ll take some pictures this weekend, then take them to next week’s class & she’ll ID what went wrong. Might be useful. I think I belong in the intermediate class, though.
Oh! I think I figured out what I’m gonna be for Halloween! Have you?
