Category: anecdotes
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True Family
So, if I’d ever doubted it, I got a hilarious reminder this Thanksgiving of where I got my genetics from. So on a previous visit to my maternal grandparents’ house, I noticed a brick with an interesting maker’s mark. I asked my coworker to show me where to look it up, and discovered it was…
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Lessons learned
So I had an Adventure in car maintenance this weekend. My car had a headlight out, and I mistakenly got the wrong kind of bulb at first, only to find the right one wouldn’t light. I eventually got help and discovered that the reason the problem wasn’t fixed was that I’d carefully replaced a working…
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Choir lols
You end up with some rather humorous mistakes, when you’re in a choir. Singers will know exactly what I mean, but people without much singing experience are often quite surprised how you have to change things to make it sound good when sung versus when you’re talking. If you don’t do it right, that’s when…
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Iron Chef I am not
I just discovered that Hulu has some Iron Chef America episodes up and so I’ve been working my way through the current season on and off. I’m a fan of competitive cooking shows in general, and they’re in my binge rotation. (Watch a whole season! Watch nothing cooking related for a month!) Today is the…
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Obligatory snow post
So there was snow in Seattle yesterday. It was not terribly exciting, since I got to drive a whole three minutes in it home from choir, and then it rained in the night. Thus, I Splooshed to work this morning. It deserves the capital. This wasn’t slush piled up beside the road. No, this was…
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Naming lies
I’ve always rather liked it in science fiction when the colonists name new species based on old Earth ones that really have nothing to do with them. Moss Rabbits? Well, they might be green and have six legs, but at least they have fur, are about the same size, and there’s a lot of them.…
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Mystery of the universe
The future is now, everyone: I’m posting this from the wi-fi on a ferry, of all places. (I’m up in Canada heading from mainland BC to Vancouver Island, which is why the trip’s long enough and the ferry’s big enough to bother) I started a longer post percolating on the drive up, in answer to…
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Food wtfery
So the family all went out to a fancy restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner. It had a menu that consisted of a dozen or so entree options that all went something like: A Comprehensible Piece of Meat or Fish A side that makes sense, a side that is kind of odd, wtf, and did you…
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Christmas Traditions
Busy day today shopping, but mostly for things like groceries that we might run out of while the stores are closed in two days. We haven’t gotten our tree yet, but it’s gotten to the point where it’s almost not right if we get it before Christmas Eve (you won’t believe the deals when you…