Friday.

I'm for it.


Today's earrings: moose, theobromine molecules

Bedtime reading: Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

It's not easy

At work today, Newbie told me that she'd recently made fudge from our family recipe. (Last December, Confused Cricket made fudge that I took in to the office. There was so much rejoicing that I circulated the recipe.) She said it hadn't occurred to her before then that fudge could be home-made; to her it had always been a store-bought treat.

I thought of, but did not share with her, a complementary revelation I had, when I realized that sodas could be purchased in supermarkets and then consumed at home. I suppose I must have been aware of the theoretical possibility before... it had just never come home to me before that I could do that.

Anyway. In our dandy new office configuration, Newbie's pointed straight at the bookcase on my right. Today I was getting some measurable work done, which means I had the tunes cranked, which means I was silently mouthing/emoting "Ballroom Blitz" and "Bat Out Of Hell" and the like smack in the middle of her peripheral vision. Poor Newbie. I hope the fudge recipe makes up for it.


Today's earrings: frogs, peapods

Bedtime reading: The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Election Day

As of this writing, the incumbent mayor, district attorney, and sheriff are winning in landslides.


Today's earrings: mice, men

Bedtime reading: Aesop's Fables, Townsend & James, trans.

No skill required

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dice+monkey


Today's earrings: monkeys, dice

Bedtime reading: Fortune-telling by Dice, David & Julia Line

PST

9am. clock radio went off. lazelazelaze and the announcer went to commercial with, "It's 8:17 here at KGO." Huh? Checked other clocks. Turned out the only one I hadn't re-set was... the clock radio. Oops.

9:20am 8:20am. reset clock radio. Made coffee.

9:15am. called the Wandering Albatross. Turned out to be quarter-past midnight in his time zone; I apologized & hung up.

9:30am-10:15. intermittently tried to call K back.

10:30am. met gang for brunch at Cafe Pretentious. At some point, they'd discontinued table service & failed to circulate the memo. The Angry Lemming heroically hunted down brunch. Go, Lemming! Then we all got epistolatory.

noonish. the gang headed east ISO some great outdoors to inhabit; I went for gelato. mmmmm, gelato.

4:30pm. b2 called; her grandmother died this morning after a long illness.

6pm. Cousin Bruce called. He'll be in town for a bridge tournament 11/22-12/2, could I recommend some restaurants?

8:15pm. Wandering Albatross called. He had changed time zones! I did count right! Anyway, he's home again & pleased about it.


Today's earrings: eyes, teapots

Bedtime reading: Fugitive Colors, Margaret Maron.

Wacky fog effects this morning

I couldn't see two blocks down the street, but look straight up and there was clear blue sky. Very odd.


Today's earrings: lobsters, rocks

Bedtime reading: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Feast of All Saints

Caught a re-run tonight of the Iron Chef Battle Milk.

Milk: the Logos; the heavenly milk from the mystic bride, the Church; milk is also the simple teaching given to the neophyte before initiation and the wine of the sacrament. Milk and honey, food for the newborn, was given to the newly baptized. In Christian iconography the milk pail, muletra, portrays the spiritual nourishment of Christ and the Church.

- - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols, J.C. Cooper

Iron Chef Cora won.


Today's earrings: hands, basketweave spoons

Bedtime reading: The Supper of the Lamb, Robert Farrar Capon