January 17, 2013
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I’ve been blogging with Xanga since 2006 and I’m not entirely crazy about them. Xanga has ceased to be a blog source that many people use and I’ve decided that I wanted a second blog for cooking to keep track of the things that I’ve made because I find recipes all over the place and sometimes I have a hard time finding them again. Xanga doesn’t support having two blogs at the same time and, although it’s not gonna kill me to log out and then log back in as the other blog, I’ve decided to give blogger another chance. When I last looked at blogger in 2008 I think, it didn’t have photos, traffic and blogging as seamlessly integrated as Xanga did so I gave it a pass. It’s much nicer than Xanga now and the only hurdle that I’ve got left is a financial one– I’ve paid for all this storage space on Xanga into perpetuity. The solution that I’ve come up with is to continue to blog on Xanga but to then post that on blogger so that the entries come up on my blogger site but the photos are stored on the Xanga site. I see how that goes. If I really like blogger I can migrate all of my old posts there and keep blogging on both spaces until I run out of photo storage on Xanga and then just continue forward with blogger. My aim is for the blogger sites to be the ones that get posted to facebook. It seems like an extra step but it’s a fast extra step and I think one that I’m willing to make so that people can click on my profile on blogger and get access to both my blogs. Developing. Here are some links:
My old Xanga blog
My new Blogger blog
My new cooking blogWednesday was super cold again and I went for another long walk before work. I headed up over Clarendon and made my way to Forest Hill. Forest Hill Muni station is super fantastic and is by a huge margin the prettiest (from the exterior) transit station in the city:
This is the view looking down Lenox from Taravel:
I made my way over to pretty St. Francis Wood and took a bunch of pics:
These fabulous homes are on Moncada:
These are new rental buildings that have gone up by City College. I like them a lot and think they do a lot for the neighborhood:
I saw this sign by a McDonalds by City College. I love that they have to remind you that the McRib contains meat. There’s a vegan version called Riblets that I’m a big fan of. It tastes to me pretty much like what I remember the McRib tasting like and I’m not troubled by whatever ghoulish process had to go on to convert a pig into that sandwich. Win!
I made my way to Balboa Park BART and came into work. My walk came in at 5.4 miles. I headed home for lunch and got my bike. After work I headed off Sutter to Polk to Pacific to Webster to Clay to Spruce. I love that this superfantastic home still has it’s lights up. I think they should leave them up until the tree goes into bloom:
I took Washington to Arguello to Lake to 28th to California to 32nd to Clement to 34th to Cabrillo and headed toward to coast. The sun had almost set and I wanted to get a pic of it before it was gone:
I continued on Cabrillo to 47th to Fulton to the Great Highway. I managed to make it to the beach before the light was gone. I love Ocean Beach right after sunset. It’s like the water is glowing and the horizon looks like an abstract expressionist painting. Perfection:
I took the Great Highway to Kirkham to 7th into Laguna Honda to Portola to Corbett to Ord and home for dinner. I made some cookies for a departing coworker and they turned out very well. Click here for the recipe on my cooking blog:
You can find the recipe I used on my cooking blog here. I cleaned up the kitchen and went to bed. I was beat.
Bike Mileage:
Today 18.6 Week to date 34.6 Month to date 219.1 Year to date 219.1 To Goal 7,780.9 Over (Under) plan (197.3) YTD Mileage vs Last Year 5.2 Rolling Year 433.0 Since Inception 10/1/07 40,686.8
