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Kibbles and Bits

Library Garden is looking for tips about blogging. I was staring at this numbly (I had insomnia last night which means today felt many weeks long) when I remembered, hey, once upon a time I wrote about ethics and blogging, so I may contribute that.

Meanwhile, Life As I Know It did a round-up of sucky-OPAC posts, which is not only great scholarship but terribly useful for us lazy types who were thinking Someone Should Do This. God bless astute, engaged library students.

At MPOW, we received our grant letter today for the 2006-2007 grant year (which began July 1). It’s what we requested, which is what we were told to request, which is neither good or bad news; it’s still a 50% budget cut, and as of July 1 we are cutting services–primarily hours, since in LibraryLand, hours are services, but I did have to give up the staff BMW, and the staff training we were going to do in Honolulu is cancelled indefinitely. (Joke, people, joke–the BMW and Honolulu, that is; the cut is very real.)

I feel better with the grant letter in hand; I can press forward to address a problem, once it’s clearly defined. I do have Plans. I’m also incredibly, ridiculously grateful that the cut happened after the year in which LII was finally funded to get a real search engine. The Velveteen Portal, Or, When Websites Become Real! It only took me five years.

On some blog today I read that people like personal details. I’m a little bleary what with that midlife insomnia thing and all kicking me in the head, but o.k., here goes. I am marinating cheap cuts of beef right now in my very very very secret family heirloom recipe:

1/4 cup olive oil
2 Tablespoons lite soy sauce
2 teaspoons McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning (or go wild and use the spicy seasoning)

If you forget where you read this recipe, it’s on the label for the steak seasoning, with the twists that I always use olive oil and lite soy sauce. I’m a little humbled at how much we like this marinade. Then again, one of my very favorite meals is two-eggs-over-easy-sausage-dry-rye, while Sandy relishes her Scrambled Whites No Potatoes. We’re simple folk. (Do they really eat marinated steak in Montreal?)

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This was written by K.G. Schneider. Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006, at 7:10 pm. Filed under This and That. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.