This has been a test of the MacJournal 3.1 posting system. If this had been an actual entry…well, you know, it could happen.

…that I oughta post that I am still alive, even if I’m not posting. For whatever reason, I’m in no mood to post right now, and I don’t even know what I’d post about if I were going to post. (I considered last night posting some of my reactions to Sam Harris’s The End Of Faith (precis: religion really, really bad, and if you’re a religious moderate, you’re just aiding and abetting the problem), except I’m only a chapter into it and it’s pretty heavy-going.

Other books on the nightstand: Hex and the City by Simon Green, the latest installment of a supernatural noir PI series. I like this series, but when the locale, the Nightside, is billed as the supernatural side of London, I expect a few more details that evoke London in the story. The Nightside has nothing to do with London, except for funny spellings.

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Also, made bread yesterday from a recipe that called for 2 teaspoons of compressed fresh yeast. Note to self: always consult yeast equivalencies chart before adapting recipe to type of yeast you have. Instant yeast and active dry yeast you can use in roughly the same quantities; compressed fresh, not so much. In fact, according to The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart

100 percent fresh yeast = 40 to 50 percent active dry yeast = 33 percent instant yeast

So let’s just say the bread I made was yeasty. Finally got that “BREAD!” smell I’d always wanted, though.

I’m making new bread today.

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And for the last, I leave you, via Darby, John Cleese’s Revocation of Independence:
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We went to see Catch Me If You Can this evening. Good movie, but I am too drained to do the review now. I am going downstairs to read a little more of the current novel I am working my way through, Colleen McCullough’s The October Horse and then (hopefully) get 5 or 6 hours straight before Simon wakes me up for his middle-of-the-night chat session.