Monthly Archives: June 2005

biked the Portola Loop today!

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 29, 2005
It’s nothing much, about 20 miles of gently rolling hills, but the Portola Loop is one of my favorite short rides–and I haven’t been able to ride it for a LOOONG time on account of my knee injury. So it’s wonderful to know I can bike it again. It’s all part of a campaign to [...]
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I've started a new piece of knitted lace

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 26, 2005
This one is my “mindless” piece: it’s a commercially spun laceweight alpaca yarn (Misti Alpaca) that I’m knitting up out of a Japanese pattern. It’s a pentagonal shawl, with a pentagonal peony repeated six times (one center motif and five pentagons surrounding it). I may knit the whole shawl, or I may just [...]
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Strawberries, balsamic vinegar, and purple basil…

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 25, 2005
…make a really ROCKIN’ jam. The balsamic vinegar adds depth and the basil a hint of spiciness, enhancing the strawberry-ness of it all. (Don’t use much of either–a tablespoon or two of the balsamic vinegar, and one or two small sprigs of basil. Take out the basil as soon as you think [...]
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I joined the Human Rights Campaign today…

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 25, 2005
…it’s one of the oldest and biggest gay-rights organizations. I’d been thinking of joining for years but never quite got around to it, so when the earnest young man turned up on my doorstep with a clipboard, I signed up immediately. And took one of their bumper stickers (dark blue with a yellow = on [...]
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Thanks, Suz.

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 24, 2005
It’s nice to hear from someone else who’s bipolar–at least now I know I’m not crazy. (LOL) It’s nice to know other people are going through the same things, too…even though I wish you didn’t have to deal with it, either. I’m a little luckier than you are in choice of geography–California doesn’t allow [...]
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