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Pork Tenderloin with Balsamic Apple Glaze, and Steamed Broccoli

credit: “Pork Tenderloin with Balsamic Apple Glaze …” by Michael Gurski (that’s me!) Wow! Another pork recipe! I’ve got to admit, I have a soft spot in my heart for pork tenderloin. It’s significantly more affordable than beef tenderloin, but can pretty much be prepared the same way, in my experience. This isn’t one of [...]

Pork Chops with Balsamic Citrus Reduction, Wilted Arugula Salad

credit: “Balsamic citrus glazed pork …” by Michael Gurski (that’s me!) This is the dinner I’d planned to make on Friday night, but was just too tired to attempt after a longish week with nights of poor sleep. It started life last weekend with the kernel of an idea that was simply “pork medallions”. I [...]

Improvised Sausage & Peppers Rustico

credit: “Sausage & Peppers 3″ by Michael Gurski (that’s me!) So Thursday night, I decided I wanted to do something different with sausage. Earlier in the week, I’d taken a kielbasa out of the freezer to thaw in the fridge, forgetting that we had other meals planned for the next few nights already. So, it [...]

Being “appropriately lazy”

Now that it looks like it will really happen, I think I can post about it… credit: “LAZY DOG” by paddynapper A little over a week ago, one of the directors where I work asked to talk to me. During the course of the discussion, he told me he wanted me to work primarily on [...]

A Yummy Marinade

credit: “Pig” by Boston Public Library This is a marinade that I concocted last week for some pork chops. To the best of my knowledge, this is wholly an original recipe, as everything I googled for my basic idea of “lemon basil soy” only came up with lemon-basil recipes which were breaded, while this is [...]

Automatic Monitoring with Puppet and Nagios

Part of my current push at work right now is trying to get some sort of configuration management system in place, and in a usable state. Part of the reason for wanting to do this is consistency of common configuration among the many systems and virtual machines I manage, especially when several serve essentially the [...]

Getting back in the habit

So, in the past couple weeks, with prodding from the wife, I’ve gotten back into a highly addictive and potentially expensive habit. It’s one that requires specialized lighting, heating, and fertilizers, but probably not what some may be thinking. No worries about DEA raids, RICO seizures, or failed random drug tests here, the habit is…

Mobile Phone Wishlist

It seems that I’m either currently, or will soon be, in the market for a new phone. This is actually a fall-out effect from the marriage, as well as timing on getting my last phone, a T-Mobile Sidekick 3. As I’ve checked the notes I made when I last upgraded, I realized my 2 year [...]

Sorry, Ladies!

Sorry to disappoint all the other ladies out there (all zero of you), but a little over 2 weeks ago, I became a married man. My lovely wife has a write-up of the wedding over at her blog, so go check it out.

Finally back on the air

So when we were looking at houses, one of the primary things I was looking for was DSL access. With the house we finally ended up buying, I noticed that the owner had a DSL bridge up and running. Score! At closing, I asked him if he had DSL, and he said he did. Score! [...]