rain, visitors, ipad

[kismet09]

the leaves are finally changing color, but now the rain is pounding them off of the trees. i hope some of them have the fortitude to hang on. i need more fall colors! it's sixty degrees and rainy today - it feels like portland, or san francisco. i love days like this. i'm listening to paul simon and drinking coffee, and i don't have too much that has to get done today, so maybe i'll unclutter my desk, finally.

we have somewhere between 10 and 12 people coming over this weekend. it's almost like we're hosting a party, but it's only the people who we know well enough that we haven't really even bothered cleaning. i guess i'll do a little bit of that tonight. most of them are going to a beer fest, and so they'll only really see the house when they can barely hold themselves upright. i guess maybe i'll just move breakable things out of reach.

i'm also cooking them all chili. keely is in charge of a veg version. i'm also thinking of doing these:
http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/beef-black-bean-chili-chipotle-avocado.aspx
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/smoky-turkey-chili

they clear a bunch of stuff out of my pantry. the squashes in particular are multiplying on my counter.

tim got an ipad yesterday because he had a small pot of money that had to be used for research and supplies, and it seemed like a good supply to have. i'm not researching productivity apps for him. few of the note-taking apps offer a free trial version, which makes me sad because most of them are 5-10 bucks. last night i wrote a note to someone in my handwriting and emailed it as a picture. it's almost like a handwritten letter, right?

Comments

[purlewe.livejournal.com]

Here is another good meat chili recipe that uses squashes.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Texas-Beef-Brisket-Chili-350108

I've made it (altho frankly cut it in half, once I made it and it took 2 crock pots to hold it. TO THE BRIM on both.)

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

ooh, thanks! and it has bacon and beer - hard to go wrong with bacon and beer! i was going to go with the turkey to not have two beefs (i have ground beef that needs using up)... maybe i could just do two beefs. turkey legs sound unwieldy anyway, and the turkey recipe meant two black bean based chilis.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

I got an ipad recently, and had a gift card to the app store, so I've been trying out notes apps. My big problem has been finding one that lets me handwrite or type -- that's not easy to find.

So far I've tried:

Penultimate - I like it best for notebook organization and writing, but it's no go for typing.
Moleskine - gimmicky, crashes a LOT
Knowtes -- haven't really used it a lot yet.
Wacom Bamboo -- didn't bother to try it out once I learned you had to pay for extra notebooks.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

i have bamboo, but i don't try to use it for productivity. the notebooks only cost 1.99, so it's still cheaper than a lot of the notes apps, but i don't think it has handwriting. this one got decent reviews and is 5 bucks:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notes-plus-handwriting-note/id374211477?mt=8