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Went to wine festival last night, still recovering, more soon.  Keep an eye on http://cincyeats.com for full post.

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So, today is the first day of my experiment with commuter biking.  So far, so good.  I made it into work this morning with no problems really.  It turns out that Eastern Ave is not a bad route from Columbia Tusculum to downtown.  The right lane comes and goes, so drivers mainly stay in the left lane anyway.  It did get a little tricky once I was downtown.  People in cars get a little scary if you’re between them and their favorite right turn lane.

A few items I still need to get:
Biking gloves – to absorb some of the impact on my baby soft programmer hands
Mirror – I’m going to try one of those helmet mounted ones so I don’t have to turn around too much in heavy traffic
Water bottle cage – water is a must have

Next post:  The Ride Home – where our hero makes his way from downtown back to his humble abode.

I migrated all of the sites on this server to apache last night and everything seems to be working properly and actually running faster than under IIS.  I’m working on a long post about migrating from windows to ubuntu linux for both servers and development workstations.  Stay tuned,  should be finished in the next week or so.

Meg made a tremendous pulled pork this weekend, absolutely delicious. While shopping, I noticed a display of “Assorted Melons”. Who can resist a sign like that? I bought three of them and they were delicious. I’m not exactly sure what varieties we had, but here’s my best guess:

1) Seedless icebox watermelon – probably the black diamond variety.
2) Amarillo Oro – very sweet and firm

3) Sweet Barcelona hybrid – sweet green fruit, not at all like a honeydew. My favorite!

If anyone is considering having watermelon for a 4th of july celebration, I say leave those huge relativly tasteless melons at the store and pick up some Assorted Melons.

Ok, here are the receipes for the stuff I made this weekend. Credit for the Cheesy Potatoes goes to my mom and the green beans I made up, but do have to give Meg credit to introducing me to the shallots. Enjoy!

Cheesy Potatoes:

8-10 potatoes, washed
1/2 loaf velveeta
2/3 stick butter
2-3 strips bacon
1c cheddar, grated

Slice potatoes thinly. Layer bottom of a 9×13 pan with 1/3 of the potatoes. Cut velveeta into slices and place on top of potatoes. Add some salt and pepper. Cover the velveeta with another 1/3 of the potatoes. Cut strips of bacon in half and space them out on top of the potatoes. Cover the bacon with the final 1/3 of the potatoes. Melt butter then pour over the potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Finally, add a layer of grated cheddar on top. Cover and bake at 375 for approximatly 60 minutes or until potatoes are soft and cheese is bubbling.

Green beans:
2-3 Shallots
1-2 cloves of garlic
1lb green beans
Olive oil

Dice the shallots and garlic. Sautee in olive oil until garlic begins to brown. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add approximatly 1c of water and the green beans. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until beans have reached the level of softness you prefer or until the water has boiled off.