Doug's Sounding Board

The grand opening appears to be today, but I’m thinking with the wind and rain that will get rescheduled. Anyway, I like that they made it look like a beach. Most of it is a mottled sandy color with a big cylinder painted like a curling wave. I should remember to take a digital camera […]

Mo was nice enough to take me to see Alpha Dog just so we could watch Justin Timberlake in his first movie. The movie itself was entertaining and Justin Timberlake is decent on the screen but he comes across too nice to be a gangster. You leave the movie wishing you could hang out with […]

This past three day weekend was a lot of work. Friday night, Nicole and I drove to Sacramento so we could paint the inside of her mother’s house to ready it for sale. We managed to paint the ceilings in 4 rooms, fully prep three of those rooms, and paint half the dining room and […]

I found a recipe for Indian dry stir fried chicken but I didn’t have all the ingredients so what follows is what I came up with instead, which was really good. Bowl 1 4 bay leaves 6 cloves 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp asafoetida Bowl 2 1 tsp corriander 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp ginger […]

This one doesn’t try to do as much and so it loads more quickly. Also I think it’s better written. I think if I want the pop-up functionality it had then I should write it myself and in a more standard way so it behaves better. Also I added a plugin that should allow you […]

I’ve crossed below 195 as of this morning and measuring my body fat as I do at 5lb intervals, it’s at 19%. That’s pretty surprising since my last 5lb milestone was back on November tenth and I was at 23 or 24%. I attribute the body composition change to walking the dogs more for my […]

When frank Herbert died he left a safe deposit box with notes and a detailed outline for what would be the seventh Dune novel. When Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson started writing their prequels the details of the 7th novel were found and that shaped their Butlerian Jihad series to fit in. Now that […]

Last week I made chicken piccata and this week Nicole wanted it again. The difference is that this week started a candida diet so some changes had to be made. The first was no white wine. No problem, I can substitute water or chicken broth. The second change was using brown rice flour instead of wheat […]

Having finally seen the season finale of Top Chef, I’m disappointed. I really wanted Marcel to win since I think he pushes himself and creates the more interesting dishes. Unfortunately he’s not as good at kitchen management which is part of being a chef and that was his downfall. Of course it doesn’t help when […]