Sunday, July 30, 2017

Prius - Cleaning Interior Fabric


  • Magic Eraser
  • Foaming Window Cleaner: "He sprayed the foam on the arm rest, waited a few moments, and scrubbed back and forth with a white shop towel. Sure enough, the dirt came out of the fabric."
    • Invisible Glass
    • Gunk Foaming Glass Cleaner
    • AFTA

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Black beans from scratch

http://www.kitchentreaty.com/supremely-delicious-black-beans-from-scratch/

Friday, July 28, 2017

Sympathique

Dawn heard the song Sympathique today:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathique

Couldn't quite place where we've heard it before.

Belva Ann Lockwood - first woman admitted to Supreme Court bar

"My Own Words", by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, mentions the first woman to gain admittance to the Supreme Court bar, Belva Ann Lockwood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belva_Ann_Lockwood

First Lyft Ride

Dawn and I took a Lyft car from our apartment to Capitola. Driver was friendly, car was new and clean. Recommended beer from Sante Adarius:
http://rusticales.com/

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Straw superfino Ecuador Panama hat

Not sure I've ever come across a hat I think looks good, but maybe the Straw superfino Ecuador Panama hat (?)

Andrew York - Djembe

Heard today on KDFC

The Mockingbird Next Door

Notes:
  1. Scuppernongs
  2. Sawmill gravy
  3. Potato logs - large fried potato wedges
  4. Truman Capote - 
    1. "Has anyone put Truman out?" - Nelle's father
    2. Shared old typewriter -- one would type, then turn it around for the other
    3. "An indulllged child" -- Nelle
  5. Nelle Harper Lee's middle name came from Dr. Harper, a pediatrician who saved the life of her sister Louise
  6. Nelle's aunt's vocabulary:
    1. Cyphaloon - weather so bad it might as well be a cyclone crossed with a typhoon
  7. Journey Proud - a person who tosses and turns on the night before a trip
  8. Pounding the Preacher - paying the preacher with a pound of chicken or vegetables when money was tight
  9. Favorite books:
    1. Alabama History:
      1. Pickett's History of Alabama: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period (1851) - Albert J. Pickett
      2. Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) - Carl Carmer
      3. The Mind of the South (1929) - W. J. Cash
      4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) - James Agee and Walker Evans
      5. Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State (2003) - Harvey Jackson III
      6. Alabama in the Twentieth Century (2004) - Wayne Flynt
    2. Fiction:
      1. Tongues of Flame (1986) - Mary Ward Brown
      2. Chicken Dreaming Corn: A Novel (2004) - Roy Hoffman
      3. Petrified Man - Eudora Welty

Saturday, July 22, 2017

A proper copper coffee pot

Carrie Fisher, from Wishful Drinking:

All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.
Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots
They're no use to me -
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot
I'll have a cup of tea.

She mentioned it was helpful while enunciating Star Wars lines.

Tuesday, July 04, 2017

No - Start Right Now

onTransition = {
  no;
  start(right, now);
}

https://oliveremberton.com/2014/how-to-debug-your-brain/

Mission Hill Staircase Tour - Santa Cruz

We walked the first half of the Mobile Ranger "Mission Hill Staircase Tour" this afternoon, reaching the Locust Street Stairs. We saw the Lower Plaza, the School Street Stairs, the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, the Mission Hill Tunnel, and a number of other historic and modern details.

STEPS

  • Post Office Stairs: ???
  • School Street Stairs: 73 
  • Locust Street Stairs: ???
  • Walnut Avenue Stairs: ???
  • Red Room Stairs: ???


After, we split a Mission Hill Creamery ice cream brownie sundae (Cookie Monster ice cream) and a cherry mini pie, then purchased two pairs of socks, from the Sockshop & Shoe Company.

It looks like the Mobile Ranger app founder has decided to pursue other career interests.

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