Birthday

I just had a strange conversation with a resident. Today is her birthday. She is now 66. I realized that she was my age when I was born.

It was a little weird.

Bad Chocolate

Sometimes I can get the good stuff, meaning Cadbury chocolate actually made in England. Sometimes, just sometimes, my grocery store actually stocks real Cadbury from England, not the nasty stuff made by Hershey.

Sunday I picked up a Dairy Milk bar. No, I did not read the label. I normally do. I was just lazy. Well, lesson learned. Today I took a bit of the chocolate, expecting rich, creamy dairy milk to melt in my mouth. Instead, I got something waxy, grainy and oddly "chocolate" flavored by not really chocolate. At first I thought the bar was old. I checked the expiration date. Nope. Then I noticed the label. Made by Hershey.

Damn you, Hershey! You have ruined my chocolate for the last time!

Snow Day!

Here you see me looking like a fashion plate with my Harry Potter scarf. And this is my car under six inches of snow.

My apple tastes weird

So, I'm at work, munching on an apple. I'm enjoying it. It's crisp and juicy and bacony. Wait, what?

My apple has a bacon after taste. I kid you not.

Either this is some sort of glorious mutation or genetic experiment that spits in the face of nature. I can't decide.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Snow Day (apparently I don't work on Wednesdays)

This is the second snow day so far this year! And they're both on Wednesdays. Sadly, and maybe this is a sign of my growing maturity, but I kind of needed to go to work today and get some things done. As I was not there last Wednesday (due to the first snow day), I had a big pile of things and rescheduled meetings for today.

Oh well, it will get done when it gets done.

School was canceled last night, which turned out to be a good thing. It meant I got to drive home before the snow started to pile up. 8 inches in Philly. (We only got 3 here, so not so much shoveling to do this afternoon.)

The snow had been coming down all day by the time I drove home, but it wasn't sticking to the roads yet. However, the snow coated the trees and lawns in a rather fetching manner. The snow came down in big, fluffy flakes. The sky was leaden so the world was cozy, glowing white. Rather like a Christmas card illustration. Philly is actually very picturesque in the snow.

It made me a little homesick, simply because snow never looks that way in Kansas. In Kansas, the snow melts a little in the sun and refreezes at night, creating a crusty diamond-like surface on vast expanses of snow. The day after a storm the sky is a bright, bright blue. The snow is blinding and the ice on the trees reflects the light in such a way as to make you certain that the trees are nothing more than elaborate blown glass sculptures.

I wanna be a Time Lord

I just realized that I can earn a Time Lord badge in City of Heroes.

Words are not enough to express how much I long for that badge.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Jenny and I (and Andy) rang in the New Year at the They Might be Giants concert. It was fun. And loud. And crowded. And Standing Room only. (If I had known that, I might not have gone. The tickets has seat numbers! Numbers!) But mostly it was fun. And now my feet hurt.

Pictures will follow.