January 2009 Archives

My sister, Diane, clues me in that today is National Pie Day. So proclaims the American Pie Council. This sight has been unresponsive, perhaps slash-dotted. With ingredients on hand, Diane and Ally whipped up a Lemon Sponge pie. Alas, I am too remote to take a taste or to take a pic.

I have been fighting some kind of stomach bug the past couple days and have come up empty handed (empty forked?) in regards to getting a pie made. I'll probably not have my suit ready for National Gorilla Suit Day at the end of the month either.

This morning, as I rattled around this site's Movable Type blog management software, I saw that the software had not been upgraded since the blog came online. I dashed off a note to Movable Type support asking how to go about an upgrade. The reply came saying "click here to upgrade". What could possibly go wrong?

Let's push the button and see ...

This morning has been spent doing sysadmin work here on piebee.com and for emerickarts.com I notice that the piebee.com home page is configured to show the posts for the latest fifteen days. Well, it has been more than two weeks since my only post of 2009, so it has all aged off. Nothing to see here - until now, although that too is disputable.

powweb.com, the host of Emerickarts.com has not been providing timely email service for Karen. The account is up for renewal, and so it is time to jump ship and consolidate. Emerickarts will be redone after the move. The website of 15domains, the emerickarts domain registrar, is not up today, so the domain name will be transferred too. This process involves getting a bunch of details right. Nothing insurmountable, but it is a bunch of clicking and drilling through the web pages on both the transfer-from side and the transfer-to side.

That's the nice thing about computers, they save you so much time.

The MIT Perquackey Federation's tradition of an annual New Year's Eve celebration has fallen on hard times since the sale of Talbot House. Dave and Trish graciously offered to host the get together this year at their place. Everyone was surprised at the good turnout given the last minute nature of the arrangements and the 3" to 5" of new snow falling on the 31st.

No one was surprised by the excellent meal prepared (forgive the Americanized vocabulary): Cuban pork, red beans and rice, plantains, and more.

The day before I prepared a berry cherry pie based on the recipe from Killer Pies. Pie gal Trish offered up a delicious key lime pie. Trish did show me a recipe for Brazilian Pie from an old Better Homes and Garden cookbook. She tells me the current edition no longer lists the retro recipe for this instant coffee based cream pie. I hope she sends the recipe along.

All of the oldsters (and lone young pup, Richard) even managed to stay up past midnight. Woo hoo!