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The best red chili you'll ever eat

As part of my decision to start sharing my recipes, I decided it’d be best to provide more than one, at least to start. This one is also a pretty easy recipe, just takes some prep time in the morning and then everything else is easy. Chili is one of those things that’s easy to come up with an okay recipe for.

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Fried Pancakes

I love to cook. Like, really love to cook. It’s partly getting to come home after work and make something I enjoy, partly just this Zen-like state of creation which I find so relaxing. I thought about this recently and realized that after all this time I’ve written down some recipes I’ve put together on paper, but never shared them with anyone.

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What I'm Reading: March 2019

As my frequent visitors probably already know, I am a voracious reader. Given that, I thought it might be nice to put a recurring feature on this blog for a change, covering books that I’ve read recently. Just quick blurbs, nothing major. Without further ado, jumping right in: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup This one was a phenomenal read.

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what i'm reading


Hi, I'm Allison.

This is the third or fourth time I’ve written something like this and weirdly, it doesn’t get any easier the more I do it. A lot of drafting and redrafting to make sure I hit everything I want to. The title on this should pretty much give away the big reveal here.

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introduction


Unfriending

Historically my personal posts have been few and far between on this blog, and I think at least part of that has to do with my activity on social media. If I’m interacting with people there, then what purpose does a personal blog serve? I didn’t really feel a need to explore this for a number of years.

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My own library

Books have always been a part of my life; there were always books at home, and as a kid I went to the library almost weekly. I’d check out twenty books, read them all, bring them back, and check out another twenty. I remember, when I was maybe 12 years old, drawing up a floor plan of my dream house.

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Playing Star Realms for the first time

A few months ago, I got involved in yet another Humble Bundle, because I have a terrible addiction to Humble Bundles. This one, notably, got me a copy of Star Realms (you can find their website, unsurprisingly, at starrealms.com), which I forgot about immediately after ordering (par for the course, really, as far as I’m concerned).

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