Dinner tonight should be interesting. curiousmay9‘s latest farmer’s market buys are on the counter: a bunch of turbanas (short, fat bananas that she claims are better than standard bananas) an eggplant a spaghetti squash an avocado a pear
Giggles
Linguists boycott Kansas hearings on intelligent design of English The state board of education in Kansas plans to hold hearings in May on the “intelligent design” theory of the origin of English, which claims that the language was constructed in…
Database Update
I’ve got 255 charts/magazines/leaflets in the Organized Expressions Needlework database now. I was entering a record for each chart in each magazine or book, but that grew old very quickly and I stopped after about 3 books. This process isn’t…
Interesting Choice of Goddesses
Back to No Pity, No Shame, No Silence
misia has posted a transcript of a speech she gave on April 28. No Pity. No Shame. No Silence. No Excuses. No More.
Yep, I Am That Geeky
I’m doing some filing, which involves dealing with the annoying file containers I have at the moment. I’m promising myself something more entertaining as a reward, though: Cataloging my needlework patterns and supplies. Yes, I am so geeky that I…
And Another Thing
(I broke one long entry up into several shorter ones since there wasn’t much to relate the items, anyway.) I got a catalog yesterday about “Zen at the Mountain Monastery.” I have no idea why I’m on the mailing list…
DVDs/TV
I’m officially a CSI junkie. I’ve started turning on the TV in hopes of finding it on some channel. I’ll watch Law & Order if I can’t get CSI, but it’s a poor second. Next thing you know, I’ll actually…
Branding Never Ends
I had an ad in today’s email from iRobot, telling me about the Roomba Pink Ribbon Edition. 20% of the sale price goes to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. If it weren’t for the fact that my mother…
Opinions Sought: Glucose Monitors
I’m going back on glucophage to manage polycystic ovarian syndrome. I’ve been on it in the past with good results. Now, though, possible interactions with other medications mean that I’ll have to monitor my glucose levels. Having never done that,…