It has been an interesting couple of weeks.  By ‘interesting’, I mostly mean ‘bad’.  I don’t want to get into the whole thing out here in the public square, but things went a little haywire.

Oddly enough, I stuck to the deal, more or less.  And, by the old clock on the wall, My [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/11/04/mmws-the-end-wow-that-was-something/feed/ 7 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/13/mmws-day-9-and-with-that-summer-is-officially-totally-over/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/13/mmws-day-9-and-with-that-summer-is-officially-totally-over/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:32:17 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1167 If you’re looking at this live, you’ll see that the temperature in Portland is in the mid-to-low 40s.  On top of that it’s windy and rainy.  Any illusion of late, late summer is brought harshly to reality if you so much as look out a window.  Tonight’s garbage (and yard debris) night, and I walked [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/13/mmws-day-9-and-with-that-summer-is-officially-totally-over/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/12/mmws-day-8-and-on-the-8th-day/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/12/mmws-day-8-and-on-the-8th-day/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:19:31 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1164 OK, I know I said I’d blog about the experiment every day, but… I had a special guest come to visit today and didn’t have a chance.  Now I’m too tired.

Let’s see… sweets… sugar… corn syrup… um…

Didn’t really come up to be honest.  Probably because I wasn’t incessantly shouting about it into people’s faces.

In any [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/12/mmws-day-8-and-on-the-8th-day/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/10/mmws-day-5-chemistry-class/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/10/mmws-day-5-chemistry-class/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:41:45 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1146 I’ve spent about five days now explaining to people the theory behind a) my book, and b) my ridiculous experiment.

Common objections:

And so forth.  But [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/10/mmws-day-5-chemistry-class/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/05/my-month-without-sweeteners-mmws-day-1/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/05/my-month-without-sweeteners-mmws-day-1/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:01:05 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1119 This is seriously going to be tough.

Last night, I was writing until the wee hours, and I must have made a dozen failed trips to the kitchen for a snack.  Now, obviously, my Trader Joe’s chocolate covered cranberries were out.  Clearly, I could not eat Newman-Os.  Let’s see… yogurt… no… honey-roasted peanuts… pita chips have [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2009/10/05/my-month-without-sweeteners-mmws-day-1/feed/ 2