Grumpy Bean is grumpy!
Month: July 2012
Is hell freezing over?
Are pigs flying? Am I seeing things, or is a certain PhD student actually wearing a shirt and tie??
It seems that he’s even done something with his hair, so I must be having a psychotic break with reality…. Bring on the drugs!!
Calling in sick
I’ve felt like that at times…
Fairground food, deep-fried and on a stick!
FARK this morning had a link to the Wisconsin State Fair’s New Food menu. I had to cut out some of the more memorable entries:
Deluxe Deep Fried Bacon Wrapped Cheddar Hot Dog On-a-Stick
Deep Fried Pizza On-a-Stick
Sweet Potato Fries with Marshmallow Dipping Cream
Deep Fried Brownie On-a-Stick
Deep Fried Cookie Dough
Deep Fried Cheesecake
Deep Fried Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Tot On-a-Stick
Deep Fried Battered Bacon Chunks with Dipping Sauce
Salt-Sprinkled Chocolate covered Mozarella
Come on, seriously???? Seriously??????
If you don’t believe me, go look for yourselves: http://www.wistatefair.com/wp/index.php/new-foods/. Hell, I’d recommend you go there anyway to go see a website who’s slogan is “Share the Oohs, Aahs, and Moos”.
I kid you not.
Every women’s magazine I see from now on will remind me of this
Infinite recursive videoconf
There was something wrong with the VC setup this morning. We had picture in picture in picture in picture in…
Life, ongoing
The EBI Summer Party has come and gone (under a deluge of rain, but was very successful nonetheless). The PRIDE Converter 2 manuscript is submitted, and all the documentation, help files, user manuals, developer manuals and example data sets have been finalized and uploaded. All of this is good.
Heard back from an opportunity I’d looked into. No joy on that front, which makes me a bit blue but the timing wasn’t the best anyway so it’s not the end of the world. Katy has a date for her operation, which is making her a bit nervous (and so I am, to be honest) but we’ll have the chance to talk to the surgeon beforehand so that should be good. She’s also seeing the dermatologist again, so hopefully things will progress on that front as well.
Our trip to Canada is still in the books for October, but we’ll wait to buy the tickets until after Katy’s all better. Bean is still being Bean, with all that entails. Hopefully we’ll have a bit of summer weather at some point soon so that we can take him to the beach.
We’re going to be taking on a lodger for a few months – one of Katy’s work colleagues. That should help get rid of a the credit card bill. Who knows, might even be fun to have another body around the house. Hopefully we won’t scare her off with the Christmas decorations :)
Matching cat book-ends
The cats have taken to sleeping on opposite ends of the window sill in our bedroom these days. This is odd, because they usually tend to sleep in different rooms. Who can understand what goes on in the mind of a cat though…
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The power of books :)
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Mind the goose!
