Still enjoying my vacation. Spent a few days in Baltimore/VA visiting my grandmother and other family–it’s good to see my cousin after his 2 years in the Peace Corps. Lots of pictures were taken with the new camera Michael got my for Christmas, but I haven’t installed the software and downloaded the pictures yet.
Why [...]
No, I really haven’t fallen off the earth, I’m just enjoying my vacation.
We got snow flurries Christmas day, and snow fall the day after. So that’s something anyway.
When not eating, I’ve been catching up on my reading: Robert Silverberg’s “Legends II”, The newest Thieves’ World, books two and three of the Lemony Snicket series, the [...]
Yup.
I love Christmas.
Just finished wrapping Michael’s gifts, and just a few things left to bake.
The only thing missing is snow, but you can’t have everything.
When Michael comes home, we’ll decorate the tree, I have egg nog, and cookies, and a Christmas tree, and friends and family I love.
So really, I do have everything important.
Merry [...]
Thirty-five cookbooks and not a single recipe for nut rolls. Do they have some other name that I don’t know? Is there something blindingly obvious that I’m missing?
I love nut rolls, but have never made them before. I’ve got nuts in the freezer, so all I need is a recipe.
Grrr…
Okay, it’s the 22nd and I haven’t made a single Christmas baked good yet.
This means:
1) I have no time to post
2) If you’re in town, you shouldn’t stop by until tomorrow if you want any cookies. After that, however…
What am I planning on making?
Lemon bars, amaretto cake, pumpkin cookies, peanut butter blossoms, sugar cookies, m&m [...]
Saturday, November 13 1:24 p.m. How rude.
Saturday, October 16 4:06 p.m. Topless frisbee players were reported at the Community Park. The field was closed, and the bare-chested disc flingers covered up their immodest wiggly bits.
6:13 p.m. But at least a few – actually, 15 – of the once-brazen topless athletes remained behind, smoking and [...]
Year’s Best Fantasy edited by David G. Hartwell (2001)
I’m a sucker for short story collections–I love short stories, and fantasy collections are my favorite, so if I come across a collection, I usually buy it. This has, of course, led to some rather poor choices, such as “The Sorcerer’s Academy” and “Earth, Air, Fire, Water”, [...]
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (1990)
Thomas the Rhymer is one of the books that managed to be precisely what I want to read. The tale is of Thomas the Rhymer, minstrel who falls for the queen of Elfland. The story is told from four different points of view: The longest narrative is from the [...]
So I’ve had it with FedEx.
We order a lot fo stuff through the mail (in fact most of my Christmas shopping was mail order) and so we get a lot of packages delivered to our house. Mostly it’s UPS and USPS that deliver, but sometimes it’s FedEx.
So how did FedEx incur my wrath? Well, they [...]
Mere words cannot experess how much I dislike Donald Rumsfeld.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced renewed criticism Sunday from lawmakers, including one prominent Republican, after he said he has not personally signed letters sent to family members of troops killed in action.
Rumsfeld said armor was being produced as quickly as “humanly possible” — which turned out [...]
There is an article in today’s NY Times, about Iraq, American soldiers, and battle stress. It looks at how soldiers are adjusting after returning from Iraq, adjusting to civilian life after living in a battle zone.
I’ve complained releatedly about how I think that our soldiers and returning veterans are not being treated as they should [...]
Happy Birthday to my Mom!
(And coincidentally Beethoven)
Random Quizziness
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Diet and Alzheimer’s Plaques
There have been various studies that have found that reduced calorie diets can have positive effects upon human health, such as increased longevity. The latest is research that has found that in mice reduced calorie diets my slow Alzheimer’s disease.
I find it fascinating, the effect that diet has upon our health. It’s [...]
Skeletal systems of cartoon characters
(via Making Light)
I Need This On a T-Shirt:
“Impaired by Wordiness”
verbose \ver-BOHSS\ adjective 1 : containing more words than necessary : wordy; also : impaired by wordiness 2 : given to wordiness
From Merriam Webster
We finally watched Buffy Season 7 this weekend (and I do mean we watched it all between Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening–I felt slightly motion sick by the time we were done) and I have to admit that I came away feeling a little disappointed. Although I was pleased with the ending, I just didn’t [...]
I highly recommend the Q & A with Stephen Hawking in the NY Times.
Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?
More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
What is your I.Q.?
I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers
I like Stephen Hawking!
Michael wants to make more bourbon balls. Apparently the fact that our kitchen cart is groaning under the weight of their alcoholic goodness isn’t enough. He needs MORE!
So I needed to pick up corn syrup. I walked up and down the baking aisle three time, and couldn’t find it. I found honey and white sugar [...]
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I ran across two very interesting articles this morning while sitting at the Dr’s office.
‘GM cocaine grown in Colombia’
I found this fascinating since I just recently read about Round-Up resistant coca.
I can’t say I’m surprised about either story. It would seem to me that coca growers have as much money as any company doing [...]
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