Please excuse the sub-standard audio. I’m not super happy with the feedback my newish mixer gives me. And it was dark outside. I’ll do better next time.
Chit chat: long time…, weather, frisky for podcasting, drink check
Old Business: kitchen kompleat, road construction thrills Frank, jobless, Catalina
Shelly’s book, iOS Access for All
About accessibility in social media, and in software
Oregon trip: (Rowan stops by to chat), hanging with friends, the Rose Parade, Lost Lake, the beer store and its neighborhood, crazy Texas liquor laws
Kitchen Konfidential Kompleat?: down to the ground, slidey mesquite floors, chipped granite(, five-burner stove goodness, small oven, can’t finish the slideshow, Frank’s brass furnace
Cooking fun: smoked turkey gumbo, holiday chili
Winter garden: spicy lettuce, drying peppers
Holidays: Hosting Thanksgiving, Christmas toys
New computer: DIY home theater, hacking Frank’s email, new obsession
Cross-examination in the community
End-of-year vacation: outings with kids, travels to Denton, Frank finds a Felker
Tech Talk: iPad Mini critic guys a Mini, new Google Maps app has issues, iTunes 11 sucks
Cocktail Talk: Whiskies of the World comes to Austin, donga punch, volcano bowl, planning the spring tiki crawfish boil, 26th anniversary coming up, Jack’s car
Prolific gardening: the squash sickness, milspec tomato cages, planting at my sister’s, (pause to waive at the neighbors), sharing the produce, walking sticks eat our mint leaves
Kitchen Konfidential: the date is set, driving to get the mesquite, surprising the wood, sorting the boards, another “thing you can get in the back of a Prius”, cabinet fixin, no kitchen for a month, finding tiny ovens, Sears is cool (who knew?), new freezer, granite is fun!
Potentially stalking podcasters in OregonReturn to the studio
California: Shelly the film geek, seeing 2 rare Spencer Tracy films, travel tips, lunch in Santa Monica, whisky bar, booze sexism, dinner in LA, double-decker tourist, wandering into a Beverly Hills hotel, more incredible whiskies, North Face snobs, rare movie night at the Billy Wilder Theaterand out to the porch
Drink check: sipping Zacapa 23 and the Ardbeg Alligator, Japanese whisky
Thyroid surgery: hospital virgin, medical payment unpredictability, upsetting stuff while groggy, talking to the doc, recovery, my smiley scar, pie and lentils
Observing the natives on our street: drivers and children and cell phones
iPad stand goodness: podcast with a mic mounted on a microphone stand
More ruminations on the murder of walking sticks. and crawfish boils, and more cats
Frank and I took a vacation to Maine and Massachusetts recently, and made some recordings to entertain you. Like last year’s 12 Days of Frank’s Vacation, these are short, semi-random bits of our trip. The first one is about what we did when we arrived. Enjoy, and please let us know what you think.
News: Fishing and tornado warnings, the inaccessible conference, refinancing the house with less paper, Shelly loses everything (side trip to the gun store)
Gardening: Frank builds the irrigation system, tiny migrant farm workers pick many tomatoes, the 9-inch pep
Kerrville road trip: Not as uncomfortable as it used to be, texting the folk singer, Garrison Brothers’ Distillery
Kitchen Konfidential: Premature demolition averted, mesquite flooring, matching powdercoat color, checking out milestone and granite, we need to pick a new range, Frank ponders his career as a remodeler
Chit chat: Date and time, mic positioning, follow Heil on Facebook, push the button
Titles
News: Allergies, mom’s been illin and fighting for better care, cool weather, maters and peppers getting bigger, rain needed, Kerrville Folk Festival, refinancing, irrigation
Hello kitty: Neighbor kid stalking the cats
Tech talk: Fixing the iMac/Mac OS is stable, set top box, You Don’t Know Jack accessibility
Chit chat: Setting the scene, cocktails, never gonna quit podcasting (probably)
News: Kids’ Olympics, iPad show notes, mom busts through her iPad bandwidth cap, (Aside: watching the passing vehicles), praise for mom’s cheapness, Frank replaces Frank’s door
Kids’ stuff: “it’s not FAIR!”, everyone has wheels, mom fall down go boom, bike training for three-year-olds
Challenges continue for Joyce
SXSW invades our city: bands everywhere, dinner with Redboy, Shelly is your tour guide
Dreamy: waking up angry, Charlie Sheen
Spring projects: (A visit from special guest Hugh), new garden mulch, bickering about the yard, new plants, family claiming our tomato plant, sprinkler plans,
Trains, trains, and trains: red line has been running one year, social media and SXSW, urban rail planning, Shelly gets all emotional about transit, smartphone navigation
Hello kitty: over-run and outgunned, new cat door, neighbors petting cats