Tonight, someone told me that we haven’t had a leap year in … no, not four years. Eight years! Is that true? The explanation I received was that our Earth year isn’t exactly divisible by four, so every century or so, we leap the leap year. If anyone can point me to any sites that [...]
Another failed muffin attempt.
Quick post before watching Runaway Jury in the living room: I urge you all to bake muffins only when you’re not feeling dyslexic. I just baked a weird batch of blueberry bran muffins that are prairie-flat. I put them in the oven for 18-20 mins at 200 deg F. WRONG. On the instructions, the 200 [...]
Bad things happen when computers don’t like me.
Yes, I fell off the face of the WWW for a while. Sorry. Things have been crazy at work, with our home computer, and in our scintillating social agenda. A wrap-up since last time: Mon, Feb 16 – Approached at work to do a database project. Housesitting mode. Allergic to cat. Tue, Feb 17 – [...]
Housesitting, steak, and climbing up the wall.
Last Saturday was one of the better Valentine’s days that I’ve had. Not that we did anything special, like we did on our first Valentine’s day together (romantic bed n’ breakfast getaway on Vancouver Island). We woke up in the morning and Kurt prepared some pancakes from scratch, as he usually does on the weekend. [...]
Cats make me sleepy.
I have been completely out of it this weekend. It started on Saturday afternoon when we started housesitting for Kurt’s parents in Tuxedo. The family cat, Zip, happens to love me…and I happen to be allergic. Not necessarily in the sneezy, stuffed-up way. More in the pass-out-from-being-near-her way. For example, while reading my Le Guin [...]
Match.com Quiz Time!
Every once in a while, I am reminded of the existence of online quizzes. Emode and Match.com are the ones I usually enjoy partaking of. Here are some of the results of the “quizlets” I took: Quiz 1: Are You Destined to be a Sports Widow? Actually, I think it would be fantastic to have [...]
Feeling fragmented.
I felt gung-ho this afternoon and went to Osborne Village to buy baking & japanese-cooking supplies. I was all set to: -bake banana bread -prepare a batch of lumpia for freezing -create a database for my personal budgeting -work on the salsa website i’m volunteering to design -fiddle with a nice blog template for Karl [...]
The joys of being a techie.
I didn’t feel like jumping off a cliff today. Instead I got home at 5:30 from a full day of networks, databases, and programming, only to spend 3 hours fiddling around on this site! I really should put other things as my priority…making dinner, cleaning up a bit, blinking, breathing. I think I spent tonight’s [...]
Everyone else is doing it…tomorrow I’ll jump off a cliff.
After a lifetime of meagrely filled paper journals and peer pressure from the “cool” bloggers I know, here’s my contribution to the sea of useless junk on the WWW. I’ve spent the majority of the night troubleshooting the Comments feature for Dave’s blog, and damnit, after that I figured that I better start one myself. [...]