A bit more postpourri

I read a good book, which I think I'll talk about tomorrow.  And I went back to work, which was pretty productive given I was already done with all my email and the short week has most people fairly busy and I'm coming off two release cycles.  And we had our annual New Year's party which involved the least amount of cards/poker ever and was more a few board games and watching the children wrestle in the frontroom while Kyle told them it wasn't allowed.  Instead, I'll list a few things I've been reading.  Only a few, because I've been spamming the hell out of Kyle with things I find interesting on Zite, the Eagan Patch crime section, and a variety of other locations.

• Making waffles out of leftover Thanksgiving stuffing.  Something I would have never thought to do but which is an ingenious use of leftovers.  Gravy AND maple syrup - decadent.
• Indigenous Native American Food of the Southwest - Part I and Part II.  I wish I had known about some of the restaurants that did locally sourced food when I was last down there.
• Skinny orange chicken - I was also reading about velveting meat, but that just seems like extra calories.  This looks pretty straight forward for something I like to eat.
• 22 recipes under 500 calories.  I have to try pumpkin lasagna.  Then I have to modify it to try butternut squash lasagna.  I can find the other 21 or 22 recipes on that page.  Maybe it doesn't like my browser.  But the pumpkin lasagna alone is worth my time.
• The 124 United States that could have been - even in that world, RAGBRAI would have been just as long.
• 15 ways to exercise in under 5 minutes - basically the 7 minute exercise set, but with demonstration videos in case, like me, you sometimes don't know what the hell they're trying to describe.
• 12 maps that changed the world - the map of the 124 states is not among them.
• 10 ways to be happier - I agree with them.  Live close to work and plan your next bicycling vacation.  Helps keep me happy.
• The Forgotten Souls of London's Women of the Night - Amazing little bit of history Justinian  pointed me at.  Which led me to...
• Lost Frescoes of the Maginot Line - also wonderfully interesting.