1. There is no such thing as moderation at the farmers' market in midsummer. You cannot go there and get "just a few things", no matter how many vegetables you already have in your fridge. There are too many delicious-looking things available, and they all look awesome.
   
   
2. Bringing just one shopping bag in an effort to enforce moderation did not work. ( Read more... )

Dear self:

When at the farmers' market, and still during the 60% or so of the year when apples are the only damn fruit available there, never, repeat never, buy only the small green plastic basket of them. Always get the big cardboard basket ( Read more... )

As a general rule these days, the only kind of animal I eat is fish (and occasionally other undersea creatures). Might have a taste of something else once in a while (because as another general rule, I'm not overly strict about general rules), but seafood is the only sort of animal product I eat with any regularity. And I have always found that I ( Read more... )

Well, it is now officially spring, because today I finally took my bike out for the first time this year ( Read more... )

1. Note to self: When "almost" recovered from a respiratory infection that among other things has resulted in occasional voice loss, perhaps leading Sunday circle is not the smartest thing to do ( Read more... )

Had a very weird experience walking Kiska earlier tonight. Just past the park I usually take her to, she was up on the lawn of a house sniffing at things, when I saw a small, long-haired ginger cat looking at us. Out of habit, I called to the cat, although I didn't really expect him to come near with Kiska there. But he did, though a little ( Read more... )

In the future, when contemplating a possible shortcut in a neighbourhood with which I am not overly familiar, I shall try and remember the following:

1. The Path Less Travelled may make all the difference, but it is not necessarily an efficient means of getting where you thought you were going.
2. In order for something to be considered a short cut, it ( Read more... )

Strange but true: all the cleaning-up-text functions PHP has to offer will not stop a submission form from generating database errors... If, in the actual insert statement that puts the data into the database, you persist in using the array that holds the original data, before it was cleaned up rather than the new array that holds it after applying ( Read more... )

In the future, when working on Drupal sites, do not set the login block to show up only on admin pages, thinking that this will somehow give you a Joomla-like setup where you have to type in the admin URL to get to the login page, and the general public is not tempted to try to log in to something they shouldn't ( Read more... )

Tonight's favourite words are LEFT JOIN (although ON DELETE CASCADE is still high in my esteem - take that, test data! Ha!).

Note to self (and others who've had similar join troubles):

When you want everything in the FIRST table you list that meets your condition, along with the related data you want from one or more other tables, to show up in ( Read more... )