It seems odd to have to think about going back to work in the morning. Saturday night, we had a number of choices, but we decided to go over to Marin and Brian's. We expected hors d'oeuvre night, but it turned out to be Indian food night instead. I proudly placed my vegetarian sausage balls (a recipe inspired by the vegetarian sausage balls served on Christmas days over at Shannon and Curt's) on the table next to sag, dry potatoes cooked with mustard seed, tomato chutney, Gujarati-style green beans, and naan.
Despite my recipe yielding five dozen sausage balls, and it being Indian food night, there were none left to take home for breakfast. (Aside from being generally popular, Caitlin found a deep appreciation for the savory nuggets and made a pretty good dent in them herself.)
Everything was delicious, and at midnight, with Elvis Costello
finishing up Austin City Limits and U2's Achtung Baby starting to play
on the stereo, we cracked a bottle of Domaine Ste. Michelle blanc de
blanc. I'm not a big fan of (little c
) champagne as a rule, but
this was tasty. It was dry without being astringent, with hints of green
apples. Barbara and I chose this as the bubbly to serve at our wedding
reception eight years ago; it was good then too, but I don't think the
happy occasion is coloring my assessment too much.
I'm working on the back end for the search feature of this site. As
usual, perfect
is the enemy of good enough
. I'm writing it
in the form of a pyblosxom plugin, and, as long as I don't try to make
it too good, it'll be finished Real Soon Now™. Mostly, I want to
encapsulate the SWIG generated python API on swish-e. There are things
(search objects, error handling, iterating over results) that scream to
be more pythonic, but I'm fighting that urge in favor of getting it
working.
I've also ripped I bunch more discs onto juke. It's working great,
though there's one little problem I haven't figured out yet. The first time
I press play
after starting rhythmbox, I get two error dialogs:
ALSA device error
, and Unable to pause playback
. After
dismissing the dialogs, if I press play again, everything works as
expected. Still looking into this...
Sunday, we spent the afternoon with my brother, Steve, along with his girlfriend, Amy, and his kids, Emily and Taylor. We grazed on cheese, crackers, dips, and chips all afternoon, chatted, and set up his new computer. I installed Firefox and Thunderbird, and managed to transfer Amy's email data from Lookout Express on her old machine to Thunderbird on the new one...a good thing, too, since the old machine was clearly on its last legs. The power supply fan, when it managed to spin at all, mooed like a cow.
I was a little surprised to find that Thunderbird couldn't import her Outlook data directly. It has an Outlook Express import mode, but I couldn't get it to work with files I was bringing over from the other machine on my thumbdrive. To successfully import the data, I used DbConv to convert the Outlook .dbx files to mbox format, then imported them using Thunderbird's Eudora import mode. I'm glad I could get it to work; I was sweating that my much-evangelized free software was not living up to my evangelism.
I spent part of today looking into the WMF vulnerability. I've been surprised at the level of the rhetoric being used by security specialists. I've hardened the Windows box under my care using this information.
QuickieBiscuit Mix, but Bisquick or whatever will work just as well.)
Gimme Lean
Allow sausage to thaw. Preheat oven to 350°F.
Crumble (well...smoosh really) the sausage into a large mixing bowl. Add the other ingredients and mix by hand. The mixture will seem dry at first, but will come together after a few minutes and form a big ball.
Form mixture into balls about an inch in diameter. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes, until they just start to turn brown. Serve hot. (I made them in two batches. Putting them in a bowl covered with a towel kept them warm.)
Yield: around 60 balls.
[Sat Dec 23 23:24:46 CST 2006 Update: I used to use Boca sausage patties in this recipe, but I've switched to Gimme Lean. It's less expensive and just as tasty.]
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