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2024’s Birthday Ice Cream Cake
We had a 15th birthday celebration in our house this week. To celebrate, we made one of our favorite desserts: an Ice Cream cake. I think we got the recipe out of a kids cook book several years ago, and we actually don’t have a paper or digital copy. Instead, we just make it off…
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Circle of Giving Continues
I received a pleasant surprise delivery from UPS today: When I looked at the from-address on the label I realized what it must be: A “reward” packet from the good people at Relay.fm and St. Jude: A box of prizes for me, as their way of thanking me for raising a little bit of money…
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Simpler Solutions
I had a pair of things to fix around the house recently, and I noticed a theme with both of them – that sometimes a simpler solution is the best one – despite the challenge that there might be in finding that simplicity. Perhaps that’s a version of “if I’d have had more time I…
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kelkhoff.com Migration Complete
When I got my new M4 Mac Mini last month, I knew right away I wanted to use it for more than just a backup and file server. So as of last night, I’ve completed the migration of this site, kelkhoff.com, to be running on my mac mini. Here’s the full stack: hover for kelkhoff.com…
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So you’re saying bigger things are easier to see…
I’ve been near-sighted since I was about ten years old. But here in my mid 40s, now my up-close vision is starting to falter too. I tried progressive lenses a few years ago, but didn’t really like them. Anyway, one of the main things I have to hold farther away from my face to see…
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Sweet Potato!
I used to buy some box of frozen mashed sweet potatoes. They had some kind of sweet something mixed in them, and a crumbly pecan topping. They were so good! But I haven’t seen them at the grocery store for like a year or so, which made me sad. But at the store this weekend,…
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My Top Podcasts – 2024
The Overcast app (my podcast player of choice) got a new feature last week: The ability to show you how many hours you’ve listened to each of your shows over the past year. Here’s my top-9, in a fancy image that Overcast produces: For the most part, this is pretty on-brand for me. Going through…
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Warm Water Correction (also, how do we survive…)
I feel it’s my duty to correct an entry I made here a few weeks back, re: my electric kettle’s stay-warm feature oddly “breaking”… turns out (and maybe this isn’t a surprise to anyone who knows me well), it was just me that “broke”. Somehow, after using this kettle for something like six months, on…
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Square Pants
As I’ve spent 2024 losing over fifty pounds, it’s come to my attention that I need some better-fitting blue jeans. I’ve always worn a 32” inseam. But this week, for the first time since maybe before high school, I’m wearing (comfortably) a 32” waist as well! So, that makes my pants 32×32 – which…
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2 new round eyes
I got a new pair of glasses from Zenni Optical last Friday. For awhile now I’ve been looking for a smaller (but not too small) circular lens – kinda going for the Steve Jobs or John Lennon look. I think this pair has nailed it. I’m pretty happy with how they look, which I think…
