Chocolate tarts all in a row.
(Cupcake Wench Christmas 2012) 

A couple weeks ago a friend asked me to shoot his surprise proposal. His plan was to take the girl out to “meet some friends”. Then he’d excuse himself to the bathroom, change into his suit, and have the waitstaff tell the girl their friends had arrived and were waiting for her upstairs.

I guess she thought he was taking too long. :)

(She still said yes.)

A quarter mile from Zen

Yesterday a company told us, “we’re on Pembroke Street, a quarter mile from Zen.”

Now I don’t know about you, but I suck at visually measuring miles, or any parts thereof. But I was in the area so I went looking.

Know where I found them? Opposite the jail.

No, they’re surprisingly not a PR agency.

Are you having password problems with Gmail on your new tablet?

Did you get a new tablet for Christmas? iPad? Kindle? Android?

If you use two-step verification for Gmail you probably need to do a few things to get your mail working:

1. Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings - http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77695
2. Create an application specific password for the device. You’ll see the 16-character password in a yellow box. Keep the window open until you’re done - https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185833&topic=1056283&ctx=topic
3. Open a browser on your device and go to this address - https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha. Follow the instructions.
4. Enter the application specific password from step 2 in the mail settings on your device.

You should be good to go.

(Source: productforums.google.com)

"Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I’d been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath."

Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

Tarrin M.

Blue food,
Arima market 

Today Menu.

Sometimes it’s fun to just wander around, camera in hand. It’s been a very long time since I’ve done that in Arima but it was worth it. I need to do it again soon. 

The stunning Tarrin M.

If I tried to make a meal by “using up what’s in the fridge” it’d probably end up being a scoop of mayo, a couple slices of stale bread of potentially antediluvian origins and some reheated sardine bones.

When my wife does it we get red sweet peppers stuffed with spicy couscous and cheddar and asiago cheese. Which thoroughly kicked ass.

Downside?

“Using up what’s in the fridge” means we only had two sweet peppers. :(