That nearly worked

For dinner tonight, I cooked up a chicken biryani, using a spice mix from a Pakistani company called Shan Food Industries (locals:  you can get them at Fiesta).  Prep was very easy following the box directions, but the result, while good-tasting, turned out to be a lot too hot for M—i.e., hot enough that I liked it and broke a light sweat.  I’ll have to try that again sometime when I have something else already done for her dinner.

Earlier in the day, I had my first try at making a window screen using a jig to drill dowel holes instead of toenailing in finishing nails to hold the members together.  I need more practice at getting the holes the right depth, so the bits all meet up evenly, but I think I can do it with practice.  And a doweling jig is a totally useful little tool.  L scraped paint, trying to get M’s room ready to repaint before my MIL comes to visit in a couple of weeks.

And rebuilding my blog, which is a LiveJournal mirror for my friends who aren’t on LJ, continues.  The old blog, which was in Movable Type 3.x, blew up beyond recovery, so I switched to WordPress 3.0, which couldn’t manage to import the MT content.  The rebuild’s gonna take some time to do, since I have to re-create seven hundred and some posts and a couple of thousand comments.

Rube Goldberg was awarded a fnord for his cartoon work.