24 December 2009:

Alyssa and I sat talking with Jenna and Kayla. They told us they had gotten some [Big] salt a couple weeks ago, which was bigger than Kosher salt. They noticed the [Big] salt has a natural lemon flavor, like lemon verbena. They got help from their respective boyfriends, and the four of them started selling it in front of coffee ( Read more... )

Monday, 7 Dec 2009

The orange light of Sonoran afternoon blanketed the valley. Everything it touched buzzed too brightly for us in the shady interior of a ruined building on the cliff side. Below us, tall grasses waved around the edges of a shallow pond.
( musicin68 knows her animals, unusual gatherings, monsters )

Thursday, 3 Dec 2009

I approached the vestibule of a twelve-story office building. Round, squat pillars divided the space between its angled walls, everything done in bare concrete ( Read more... )

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

I went to the kitchen to get a plate for my supper. I noticed a big utility sink on one side of the island counter; I didn't think we had one of those. I glanced inside; it was half-filled with dirty dishes soaking in murky water. The pesto shaver lay unwashed atop the pile.

Alyssa must not have washed it after dinner ( Read more... )

Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009:

My mom's friend Pat ran an informal cooking class in her kitchen. I went to the grocery store before class, and I brought my bulk raisins and 20-pound sack of flour. I arrived early, so I made a little raisin-filled Stollen, just a simple version of what my Dad makes every Christmas. Pat smiled when she saw it and decided ( Read more... )

I spent about two hours at work yesterday believing that I had (personally) invalidated all of our data for the last three years.

I did not care for the experience.

Monday, 9 Nov 2009

A college math professor posed a question to his students, and they gathered into small groups to work on it ( Read more... )

Work has been extremely busy this week, sometimes so much that I can't really think or talk to anyone. I'm scrambling to do things we can barely do until the software improves, and there is a bunch of anxiety in everyone involved (except the exec & sales staff, who, if anything, ooze confidence ( Read more... )

(Because cuthalion asked a question, and my reply swelled to dwarf the original post ( Read more... )

At the invitation of discoflamingo, Alyssa and I joined him and ytinas yesterday for a puzzle quest, which neither of us had done before ( Read more... )