Tormented Adrienne into running 15 minutes, 1 min walk, 3 times total. She was trying to sleep on the stairs, I had to use extreme measures. I better get a promotion soon.
November 6 running log
16 minutes running, 1 walking, 3 times.
… Adrienne and I have to renew our unholy contract, I think :) With the two of us being busy / lazy and with the holidays coming up, we’ll have to think hard to find ways to get running time…
Sprout raising process, day 6
The Sprout Sandwich Shindig was so much fun I forgot to put up my pictures from yesterday…
First, a blurry morning picture.
Then in the evening, they’re finally ready!
They grow together so tightly that you have an Eternal Darkness-style Pillar of Sprouts when you finally take them out of the sprouter…
Sproutpeople recommends getting the hulls off in a salad spinner, which I had never tried before: they are the experts, so of course it worked perfectly.
Thank you for your patience with this domestic interlude! Now, back to running logs and old video games.
Sprout raising process, day 5
This morning they’re looking happy…
and would you look at that, I think they’re starting to get positively plant-like this evening ♪
Oh noes, artwork theft!
Someone I’ve been talking with about Granhistoria recently was worried that I was the sort of barbaric person who would go around stealing other people’s fanart. I wasn’t all that offended – actually I was rather amused because it’s happened to me before, although I didn’t go into that.
My paperdolls get, shall we say, remixed a lot, with my blessing or at least passive approval. The dresses get changed into those cute pixel dolls, redrawn for fanart, used in Polyvore collages, repurposed as illustrations in fanfiction, Gaia role-playing threads and blog posts and so on. My Anna Karenina dress even got made into a killer Second Life gown. To me it’s part of the joy / terror of releasing them to the world. If there’s some form of attribution I don’t mind… actually, the results are often really cool and I love that something I did was an inspiration to someone. (I probably ought to just go ahead and figure out the terms of some Creative Commons license I’d be comfortable with.)
Taking the originals, squishing the hell out of them, erasing important bits and changing the colors such that the results can only be described as abominations… well, even if there had been some sort of attribution, I still wouldn’t have been all that thrilled, I imagine. There is a possibility that attribution would have made it sting even worse. Trust me when I say I’m doing you a favor by not sharing all 30 screenshots with you…
Hopefully it’ll be taken care of soon…
Sprout raising process, day 4
Look, cute little cotyledons! I think that’s the right term anyways.
Whether it’s the right term or no, they’re getting cuter and cuter as the day passes.
Sprout raising process, day 3
After the first rinse this morning…
Look, look, they’re germinating! Awwww. Welcome to the world, sweet sandwich filling.
Now they’ve had their second rinse this evening, you can really see the potential already…
I think most of you (all two of you, and that may be a generous estimate) who are following my sprouting adventures actually know me in real life. So let’s do this: once the sprouts are ready we will have a Sprout Sandwich Shindig. Post a comment on one of the sprout series posts and you’re invited.
Tell me, too: shall this be a pita-and-hummus-centric shindig, or are more traditional sandwiches going to be involved? Sprouts are good either way. Sproutpeople says they’re also good on pizza, but I haven’t yet had the heart for that.
October 30 running log
Ran 20 minutes.
… That’s because I screwed up and didn’t have enough money to park as long as I normally do. Yeah, ditzy…
Sprout raising process, day 2
This morning I drained the soaking water and rinsed the seeds, also known as proto-sprouts. (At least in my household.)
And then this evening, post-date, the seeds get a second rinse… You can (barely) see them starting to open up here.
Sprout raising process, day 1
In the spirit of poor lost Geocities, and since I’m feeling like this blog is far too running-and-geek-stuff-centric, insofar as it has a heart at all, I decided I needed to document something useless and domestic. So I joked about it on Twitter but I’m actually doing it: Snuffing Out Sprouts, part one. Before they get sacrificed to the tempeh sandwich or the salad, they have to get raised with love and care…
I ordered my sprouter from sproutpeople. Coming from the ol’ mason-jar-and-cheesecloth-method, I was a little intimidated at first, but it’s a snap to use.
The seeds are the bulk sandwich mix from the co-op. 1/4 cup goes in the sprouter…
Sprout sludge! Add water, soak overnight…
On goes the cover. (I think it makes it look like some sort of whacked-out milkshake)
Thanks of course to my photographer.
