Various Stuff
I think we can do away with Leap Year now.
So Julius Caesar’s astronomer (poor guy, can’t remember his name) is credited with figuring out we needed a leap day every four years so the seasons would fit with the calendar.
Without a leap year we fall about a month off for every 100 years.
So without the leap year we would be at about mid-November.
Looking at the snow outside … I really think we could do without the leap years now.
To comment on an earlier post:
I did not game at the convention. I went to decorate and clean up. I saw many an old gamer who, like me, no longer play. Most of them were busy avoiding people that they left the game for. Odd. I spent most of my time talking with a non-gaming S.O. of a present player. I had much more in common with her than with any of the other people there. Sad.
Lunch Highlight for my workmate:
Today her husband packed her some canned salmon … nothing else, just the canned salmon.
I shall elucidate on why this is a highlight: This isn’t metal canned store bought it’s home canned. Evidently when salmon season comes about everyone in Alaska gets their max quota (it’s something like 20 lbs per person in the household) and cans it. The bountiful supply of old canned salmon is the perfect gift to newly married couples. So my workmate and her husband had an entire room full. When they decided to move down here my workmate assumed she could just leave it behind. Her mother-in-law secretly packed the entire supply in the moving truck. So she has an upper waist high stack of canned jars of salmon that will probably last until the zombie apocalypse happens. There is only so much salmon you can eat.
NOW, to make this ‘highlight’ better … on Sunday she and her husband were at a friends house who made them Creole Salmon for dinner. Monday both she and her husband had to go home with food poisoning.
He gave her salmon … in a jar.
Winner.
I realized I never posted pictures of the bar I made. Well, I’ve put it in
The bar is completely collapsible. It was made to fit some particular dimensions and is to a requested height. The top portion of the side wall of the bar lifts up with a collapsing support and security feature . The gate swings open. You can fit a small refrigerator under it or a large cooler without a problem. The space to the left is sized to fit either an English or American full sized keg.
I was going to do a lot more for it but I ran out of time and the person I was doing it for lost interest in what he needed it for so I gave up.
So Julius Caesar’s astronomer (poor guy, can’t remember his name) is credited with figuring out we needed a leap day every four years so the seasons would fit with the calendar.
Without a leap year we fall about a month off for every 100 years.
So without the leap year we would be at about mid-November.
Looking at the snow outside … I really think we could do without the leap years now.
To comment on an earlier post:
I did not game at the convention. I went to decorate and clean up. I saw many an old gamer who, like me, no longer play. Most of them were busy avoiding people that they left the game for. Odd. I spent most of my time talking with a non-gaming S.O. of a present player. I had much more in common with her than with any of the other people there. Sad.
Lunch Highlight for my workmate:
Today her husband packed her some canned salmon … nothing else, just the canned salmon.
I shall elucidate on why this is a highlight: This isn’t metal canned store bought it’s home canned. Evidently when salmon season comes about everyone in Alaska gets their max quota (it’s something like 20 lbs per person in the household) and cans it. The bountiful supply of old canned salmon is the perfect gift to newly married couples. So my workmate and her husband had an entire room full. When they decided to move down here my workmate assumed she could just leave it behind. Her mother-in-law secretly packed the entire supply in the moving truck. So she has an upper waist high stack of canned jars of salmon that will probably last until the zombie apocalypse happens. There is only so much salmon you can eat.
NOW, to make this ‘highlight’ better … on Sunday she and her husband were at a friends house who made them Creole Salmon for dinner. Monday both she and her husband had to go home with food poisoning.
He gave her salmon … in a jar.
Winner.
I realized I never posted pictures of the bar I made. Well, I’ve put it in
The bar is completely collapsible. It was made to fit some particular dimensions and is to a requested height. The top portion of the side wall of the bar lifts up with a collapsing support and security feature . The gate swings open. You can fit a small refrigerator under it or a large cooler without a problem. The space to the left is sized to fit either an English or American full sized keg.
I was going to do a lot more for it but I ran out of time and the person I was doing it for lost interest in what he needed it for so I gave up.