1) Today I went to a lecture. It was ninety minutes in a small stuffy room listening to an academic read two chapters of his new book. Not that it wasn't interesting, but as a presentation it seemed to show a lack of effort.
2) On Monday we're having an office meeting about hours we have to be on the reference desk. I believe that the gist of this meeting will be "Why can't I have what I want?" and therefore it will be miserable, long, and stupid.
3) The difference between the airports in Greenville South Carolina and Greenville North Carolina is about five hours by car and about $220 by air if you make your reservation at the wrong airport and don't catch it in time to avoid rebooking fees. Finding this out took up most of my morning.
The other part of my morning was making cupcakes for a baby shower. The last time I was in Hobby Lobby I found these:
You may have seen them before here. I don't think I said "Eureka!" when I found them but I may have said "Aha!" or "Hey!"
I used a recipe for Milky Way Pound Cake. The recipe asked for 12 fun-sized bars, but I only got a package of eight, and they looked smaller than I remembered anyway, so I used some mini bars to measure out eight ounces.
Milky Ways look fairly funky while melting--I think it's the nougat:
Once the cupcakes were baked I stuffed a mini Milky Way into their centers:
I debated adding sprinkles but decided not to. The people I made them for liked them, but while planning them I underestimated the associations between babies and brown goop: I wouldn't quite call them meconium cupcakes, but...they tasted good, anyway. And I think people kept the babies as a souvenir.
ETA: My nephew turned seventeen yesterday. Apparently his first words to his mother in the morning were "Now I can buy parental advisory video games!" but he didn't have an R-rated movies he wanted to see. This is his birthday hat:
I'd better get back home... time got away from me and it's already dark.
Oh my....here are some videos of dogs greeting their masters who have been gone for months in Iraq or Afghanistan.
I am sobbing by the time I see this last one. Don't tell me that animals don't have "opinions" or "emotions". WOW.
My DSL is repaired but will only work if I'm hooked up to the modem via an ethernet cable.
I've tried, for an hour this morning and another hour tonight, to configure the Linksys wireless router (which I installed and have previously reconfigured a couple times). It comes up as configured and connected but won't let me go anywhere - everything times out.
I think the problem is internet security settings... that I have them configured, somewhere, for the wireless router too. I've checked, disabled, and/or reset everything I can think of but still can't get internet access via my wireless router.
Yes, it is making me insane.
"I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. . . . I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs Rawlinson." (Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)
i don't know that everything in the universe is interconnected. i am sure my husband doesn't. and here is why i am sure:
jeff always keeps a container of sugar free licorice next to the couch. in addition to being a big fan of licorice, he also likes the fact that the sugar free variety is an effective...um, digestive aid. so he feels like he has a medicinal justification for eating a few pieces every night. [this is not TMI, jeff. it's a fact of life for all of us. go ask jamie lee curtis.]
10:30pm: jeff gives smudge a large piece of sugar free black licorice. smudge inhales it. laughing, jeff marvels at the fact that smudge enjoys sugar free black licorice. he says "here's another smudgie, but that's it." smudge makes that one disappear just as quickly. then he jumps onto jeff's table and lays down next to the container of licorice. jeff laughs some more. (so do i, but i also wonder if sugar free black licorice can really be a good food for a cat.)
11:00pm: jeff goes to the front closet and says "oh no! i think i just stepped in cat shit! i think this is cat shit! this is cat shit!!!!"
and it doesn't immediately occur to him that there is a definite cause and effect in play here.
Been busy with other stuff tonight and I just realized the time. I'll have to use my car post as my Nablo of the day. Back to quasi-theme posts tomorrow. By the way, there are still a few post suggestions given in a previous post that I can use, but feel free to throw more at me if you wish.
Given that this is Remembrance Day, let me leave you with this video from Veterans' Affairs Canada.
Hmmm, sorry, vox's video thingy isn't working. Please go here.
What was your favorite class in high school? (And no, lunch doesn't count.)
Geometry. DUH!! 8:-)
Geek points for the measure of angle F.
