False(B)logic

I had just started posting again, excited to be returning to the blog with bi-weekly updates when it suddenly halted.  This seems to be a pattern in my life as soon as some normalcy, some measure of predictability *BAM* it goes all to hell.  This phenomenon probably isn’t restricted to my life…

Anyway, the videocard (one of those fancy ones made by Nvidia or GeForce) melted.  Plastering scratchy horizontal lines all across the screen when it was a good mood and when it wasn’t?  blank screens.  This is the exact same thing that happened to my last high-end laptop too.  Lesson learned:  don’t buy high performing laptops, they get too hot and immolate themselves.

I spent most of September sans computer and then once a new computer was purchased I went on a much needed vacation (don’t worry I’ll be boring you with all sorts of pictures from that later! Lucky you!)

The think the point of this post was to let you know that I’m back and articles that might interest you should be coming in the nearer rather than farther future.

PS – What kind of computer did I get?  A cheap little netbook, the Toshiba NB 305.  This is a picture of it:

I think the last time I mentioned the garden things were starting to happen and the plants were growing  but beyond some zucchini nothing much else was going on.  That isn’t the case anymore.  In fact, the garden is producing crazy amounts of fruits and veggies.  The tomatoes that  had been planted in the front, the ones that spent the first 3 months looking sick?  I had given up on them too early it seems as now their producing tomatoes by the basketful.

The two heirloom tomato plants which are now over six feet tall are now starting to produce.  They were flowering but the flowers kept dying.  In the hopes of forcing the plant to germinate and produce some fruit I began cutting the plants back and sure enough fruit started showing up.  So lesson learned, next year I’ll trim them back much sooner, certainly before they become larger than me.  Everything we’ve planted so far is producing, some of it not as much as we’d like (beans)  but I that’s partially how we layed the box out.  I had no idea how large the tomato and zucchini plants would get!   Next year, tomatoes will be restricted to the front yard where if planted at the right time do fine, which will save room in the box for the beans, cucumbers, and peppers to have a chance at getting some sunlight.

Anyway here’s what I took out of the garden the other day and this is usually what we get out of it every few days or so:

That’s some onions, red chili peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, Japanese eggplant, pole beans, and some basil.  It all went into a delicious couscous salad which the recipe for will show up sooner or later over at Origins of the Cook.