Pizza box idea

Why haven’t any of the major chains thought about doing this?  I suppose the cost to add extra perforations to the box isn’t worth corporate’s time but I wouldn’t mind paying a couple quarters extra for encouraging better use of resources.

1. No need to use extra paper plates.  Or waste water/soap/energy washing dishes
2. Pizza box doesn’t take over the entire fridge! It’s hard clearing out an entire shelf and I’m lazy.  If you do relocate the leftover slices we loop back to #1 with having to use foil, plastic wrap, or tupperware
3. This is just coolness.  I tend to be easily amused however.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26

• @RepJoeBarton Dr. Chu was stumped by the idiocy of your question. Geology 101, take it. in reply to RepJoeBarton #
• I really wish I lived elsewhere some days #
• @GilTimusPrime 1 has its wings clipped, harness for the other http://jessaroo.com/2009/02/samharnes/ Even without, he wouldn’t leave me in reply to GilTimusPrime #
• Seriously? Took the birds for a walk and to get the mail, came back itching like mad because I got attacked by mosquitoes. It’s too early! #
• Finally fixed my phone and managed to squeeze in a few episodes of the office #
• Bricked my blackberry several times this weekend trying to install the 4.5 OS because T-mobile is fail #

Earth Day

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-19

• http://tinyurl.com/dbwnxu #
• @tamalw Have a good flight and hope you enjoyed Austin in reply to tamalw #
• Just noticed the side of yoplait yogurt cups say “protect wildlife crush cup before disposal” #
• Yay thunderstorms #
• Just made creamy cajun chicken pasta from scratch! #
• @tamalw Just got your voicemail, left my phone in ze car. I’ll call ya tomorrow about plans. Amy has class til 6pm so nothing before then #
• @tamalw if you have wednesday evening free, reserve it for us in reply to tamalw #
• @tamalw Alright. Amy and I both work Monday nights, relatively free the rest of the week though. in reply to tamalw #
• @tamalw Awesomeness. We need to partay. in reply to tamalw #

Ikea and bye birdy

I gave him away today.  Had him since November to keep Sam company, but over the past few weeks we reached a breaking point.  Budgies are extremely hyperactive and very social and his craziness was too much for the cockatiels to take.  They attempted to ignore him, but Nugget would get frustrated and start pulling feathers and biting their feet.  When he started drawing blood…I posted an ad on craigslist to find him a new home.  Found him one, with a nice hispanic couple who have over a dozen other birds.  I think he’ll be much happier as part of a flock.  Going to miss the little guy.

Since I was in Round Rock anyways to drop him off, I stopped at IKEA.  Bought some casserole dishes, shakers, grease splatter shield, lingonberry preserves, and a 2.5lb bag of frozen Swedish meatballs.

Yes, those meatballs are one of my guilty pleasures.  At first I thought having an restaurant in IKEA was insanity, but they have some pretty decent food for cheap.  This is how they serve the meatball platter, sometimes with a mini Swedish flag stuck in the potatoes:

I was tempted to buy a lot more crap I don’t need, but thought better of it this trip.  Maybe next time when I have a nice juicy paycheck in the bank.

We didn’t start the flame war

Julian Perretta – Wonder Why

Catchy song, I like!  His album isn’t coming out until later this year though but the sample clips are decent.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

• New blog site is jessaroo.com No longer jessles.com because dipshit registrars won’t release my domain for transfer for another 3 months #
• Agitated, I hate it losing things. Will toss in bed for weeks now until I find it. On the flipside, my room is impeccably clean now. #
• Got a 91 on an exam I thought I bombed! #
• Ugh, someone is smoking in here. University building folks. Packing up and heading to my next class #
• Facebook is getting on the twitter fail whale boat, can’t login. “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance” #

Raiding World Market

I went to World Market to get some Tim Tams for an acquaintance and for myself to pig on.  Except I kind of went overboard and scoured every aisle in the store.  It’s one of my favorite places to shop because they have such a wonderful collection of unique imported items you can’t find elsewhere.

Picked up a black potted fake bamboo plant, a oil torch candle for the patio, a teapot shaped tea infuser, and a vanity shelf.  When I went to checkout, the cashier eyed my 6 boxes of Tim Tams (I had cleared the shelf) and went “Cookie binge?”.  Wallet is crying, I’ve blown my entire shopping budget  for the month only 11 days in which means no more spending.  I guess it’ll force me to stop eating out and clear out the food in the cabinets and freezer.

I found a cappuccino maker (Bialetti Mukka Express Cappuccino Maker) sitting on a bottom clearance shelf.  I picked it up, balked at the $44 price tag for what is essentially a glorified kettle, then remembered reading about it on an espresso blog which gave rave reviews for it.  Also remembered that it retails for $90 and used that fact to justify a purchase.  Decided to indulge myself and threw it in the basket, then picked up some amazing smelling espresso beans as well.  I have a french bodum press, espresso machine with a frother, a Senseo pod machine, and a Vietnamese coffee filter.  Of all those, only the latter makes a nice strong aromatic brew but is only suited for iced coffee.  Now that I have the Bialetti I can stop wasting more money on coffee paraphanelia and sell the other crap on Craigslist.

It took a few attempts to get right.  The manual that came with it was in Italian so I had to google instructions.  Apparently not following them down to a T involves messy explosions.  After I’d cleaned everything up from failed tries, I found the English instructional DVD at the bottom of the box -_-

Attempts

1. Used coffee only, apparently the pot should be seasoned a few times before getting exceptional.  Hot coffee started spewing everywhere out of the seal, I had to throw the pot in the sink and do a complete wipe up of the stove/burner.
2. Added milk per directions, a bit of steam sputtering out the sides.  Pressure valve went off and the milk threatened to froth over so I shut off the burner and took it off the stove prematurely.  Froth went away a few seconds later, ended up with a lukewarm cup down the sink.
3. Determined to avoid leaks, I oiled the threads, ground up some more beans for another try.   Except I forgot to add water to the bottom and stood there for 10 minutes smelling scalded milk before realizing it.
4. Triple checked everything I did this time, turned out perfect.  Added some cocoa on top of the thick froth, stirred in sugar…and had the best damn cappuccino I’ve had in awhile.  Screw you, Starbucks.

New domain and 1 year

Me with a kangaroo in Ballarat, summer 2006

Long story short, I refuse to be a patron of a company who engages in shady business practices by hiding or being extremely vague about their ToS.

I wasn’t terribly attached to the jessles.com domain, I registered it under impulse one night.  The probably with having such a common name like Jessica is that everything has been taken already.  I would love to use gmail, except they require a 6 character minimum, canceling out jshan.  And every other permutation of my first and last name is taken.  The same story with Yahoo.  Not until I found out Microsoft/hotmail started live.com did I finally get a nice simple email I can stick with (jshan@live.com)

A lot of my internet friends refer to me as Jessaroo or Jebaroo so figured, why not?  I’m still debating whether I want to register jessicashan.com .  I have no use for it and prefer not to use my full name as an address, but I’d be terribly upset if someone else snatched it up.

It did take me quite awhile to get everything working again though, since I had to deal with messed up nameservers, change site urls in the MYSQL db, and a bird who kept walking around my keyboard and triggering strange things in my ftp client.

But yes, I’ve officially kept this thing up and running for a year now!

First post: http://jessaroo.com/2008/04/first-post-ever/