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How I spend my summer vacation, sort of
Jun. 28th, 2004 03:25 pmWho decided it was going to be cold out today? It's also overcast, but it hasn't rained yet. I think it's working on it, though. It keeps getting progressively darker out, and it shouldn't be doing that for another six or so hours.
My extended cleaning fit keeps getting further and further extended. As soon as I take one thing off the list, something else gets put on it. My latest one is "clean the oven", since I keep setting the smoke alarm off. Since I have an electric, non-self-cleaning oven, I get to do the whole rubber gloves and oven cleaner thing (right after I buy some oven cleaner and rubber gloves, that is).
Anyway, I did manage to make broccoli cheese soup over the weekend. I played with the recipe just a little, in that it needed something other than onions by way of flavor. I threw some garlic in it too, on the theory that almost everything can be improved with garlic, and it worked quite well. The soup in general was better on the second day, but soup is almost always like that.
I seem to have lost most of my sense of time. It feels like there should be more than two weeks until my birthday. The rest of July seems like a figment of my imagination, and I don't know what I'm going to do when I finally realize that lo, it's August, and there's my summer mostly gone. Unless it's the beginning or end of the month, I also usually can't say what the date is without looking at my watch. I can keep track of what day of the week it is, but that's about all.
Question for somebody who knows about coffee: is it any cheaper (and/or otherwise better) in the long run for me to buy a coffee grinder and whole beans, or should I just keep buying ground coffee? I know that if you're a purist, you buy whole beans and grind them yourself, but I'm not a purist. I merely want to be able to make coffee when I feel like it.
Oh yes, I really should remember that sometime before the ATA meeting in October, I want to have a translation of something semi-technical and fairly short to include with my resume. That goes under "file in brain for future reference" at this point, though.
My extended cleaning fit keeps getting further and further extended. As soon as I take one thing off the list, something else gets put on it. My latest one is "clean the oven", since I keep setting the smoke alarm off. Since I have an electric, non-self-cleaning oven, I get to do the whole rubber gloves and oven cleaner thing (right after I buy some oven cleaner and rubber gloves, that is).
Anyway, I did manage to make broccoli cheese soup over the weekend. I played with the recipe just a little, in that it needed something other than onions by way of flavor. I threw some garlic in it too, on the theory that almost everything can be improved with garlic, and it worked quite well. The soup in general was better on the second day, but soup is almost always like that.
I seem to have lost most of my sense of time. It feels like there should be more than two weeks until my birthday. The rest of July seems like a figment of my imagination, and I don't know what I'm going to do when I finally realize that lo, it's August, and there's my summer mostly gone. Unless it's the beginning or end of the month, I also usually can't say what the date is without looking at my watch. I can keep track of what day of the week it is, but that's about all.
Question for somebody who knows about coffee: is it any cheaper (and/or otherwise better) in the long run for me to buy a coffee grinder and whole beans, or should I just keep buying ground coffee? I know that if you're a purist, you buy whole beans and grind them yourself, but I'm not a purist. I merely want to be able to make coffee when I feel like it.
Oh yes, I really should remember that sometime before the ATA meeting in October, I want to have a translation of something semi-technical and fairly short to include with my resume. That goes under "file in brain for future reference" at this point, though.
