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The lack of updates is due to the fact that I’m buried neck-deep in work. Long story short, we’ve had to postpone some software/design upgrades for my project twice now, but…you know, we’re learning. Mostly I’m learning a lot about what it’s like to be a project manager (sort of) for a small but intense little project.

All that aside, I did make something yummy for dinner tonight that I would like to eventually recreate. Here’s the recipe:

Chunky Sausage Pasta

Ingredients

• 3 hot Italian sausages, cut into chunks while raw
• 1 red onion, chunky chop
• 1 large green pepper, chunky chop
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced or pressed
• 1 jar Classico Spicy Red Pepper sauce
• Fresh ground black pepper
• Fresh grated parmasean cheese (get the good stuff, really)
• Tortiglioni pasta (or ziti)

Procedure

Heat a good sized sauce pan to medium or medium hot. Drop in sausage chunks and let brown well on one side, then stir/shake. Keep doing this until sausage is cooked through. Some sausage bits will stick to the bottom, and if you’ve got the temperature at the right level, they’ll get nice and brown. Don’t worry, they’ll unstick later.

When the meat is cooked through, toss in the peppers and onions and stir well. Cook these for a little while until starting to soften. Add minced garlic and black pepper and stir, continuing to cook until the veggies are cooked but still a little crisp. Pour in the full jar of sauce, stir well, and turn heat to low. Let this simmer for a while, stirring occassionally.

Boil a large pot of salted water. Cook pasta. Tortiglioni is a nice big fat chunky pasta that goes well with the chunky sauce. Drain (don’t rinse).

Pasta goes in bowls, sauce goes over it, and top with grated parmasean and some more fresh black pepper. This is a little spicy and would go nicely with a fairly bold red wine.

Feeds two with leftovers for lunch.

I called the Humane Society this morning when I noticed that Ralphie’s page at Pet Harbor had been removed. Much to my delight, it turns out that our little Ralphie was adopted yesterday. Three cheers for Ralph, and three cheers for whatever nice person/people took the little guy home to love.

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! :D

There are some really fantastic photographers out there. Here are a couple of my most recent favourites:

• Edmund Leveckis
• MUTE

Some friends of mine and I recently rescued a sweet but clearly lost/abandoned kitty who had started hanging out at our BBQs. We took him into the Humane Society (Ottawa) earlier this week, and it turns out that he’s a healthy little guy.

He’s now up for adoption.

If you or someone you know (in and around Ottawa) is looking for a little kitty to hang out with, Ralph’s your guy. He really is a sweetie.

So, it turns out that my Photoblog software doesn’t want to let me log in. Not only that, but it doesn’t want to email me my current or a new password. Long story short — I’m screwed. There’s no way for me to actually log in and use that part of the site anymore.

As it turns out, however, that’s OK. The reason I was even looking at it is because I’m replacing it. Posting individual photos was simply turning out to be a pain in the butt, so I just stopped doing it. I’m going to be using Lussumo Filebrowser instead. This is an extraordinarily slick little piece of php coding (no database) that basically builds a gallery of images (or whatever other file types you have), including, if you so choose, thumbnail previews. It’s…just neat. And tiny! Those Lussumo guys seriously seem to know what they’re doing.

Anyhow…the existing photo site is going away and will be replaced in the nearish future. I think I’ll start going through and organizing my photos right now, in fact…