Last night, I had some amazingly sweet strawberries, and I made whipped cream, so I had strawberries and cream and it was delicious. I've been very pleased with the strawberries this summer. The cherries, not so much. Maybe I've just had bad luck, but twice I've spent money on them and twice they've just been not good. That's sad. I guess because ( Read more... )

This day has been endless. I have finished a bunch of stuff that got pushed aside during board meeting prep, and I have scheduled all the meetings I can schedule without input from people who do not respond when I poke them, and now I just want to go home and have a nap ( Read more... )

Fruit is so confusing. The plums and nectarines I've bought this summer have been so good, and yet the peaches have been godawful. What's up with that?

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Yesterday, I read Year Zero by Rick Reid. It's about how aliens have been illegally downloading and copying Earth music since the 70s, and now because they owe more in copyright infringement ( Read more... )

First draft of remix number 2 is done! \o ( Read more... )

Today I meant to update unfitforsociety, answer comments, and write.

One out of three ain't bad, right?

unfitforsociety has been updated with 55 recs for May 2009:

* 24 Star Trek Reboot
* 23 Supernatural
* 3 Crossovers
* 2 Sarah Connor Chronicles
* 1 each Bones, Iron Man and Middleman

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I opened a new bottle of olive oil to make the sauce for dinner tonight, and there was a perfect greenish-golden bead of it glistening in the white plastic mouth of the bottle. It smelled so good. I wish there were an Italian bakery in the neighborhood, so I could get good bread - I could eat almost a whole loaf for dinner, dipped into olive oil ( Read more... )

I bailed on the doctor, because I ended the work day with the cramps from hell, which you may recall also visited last month. I came home, curled up with my newly acquired hot water bottle and, er, fell asleep. The sleeping was unintentional. I dreamt I was in a cab with Jared Padalecki and he was using my cell phone to talk to someone - I don't ( Read more... )

So I turned on my tv this morning, and it was still on the SciFi channel 'cause I watched BSG last night, and there was JON BON JOVI and he was SLAYING VAMPIRES ( Read more... )