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2006-03-22 - 8:00 p.m. Not orchids, nor meatloaf I just converted arcsec to degrees incorrectly. I think I�m done working for now. We spent money this weekend, spent money like fools or people who hate shopping. You see, we put off all those household errands for months [mumble, years]. Plotting our spending habits in Quicken shows (yes, I have the data. I could even tell you how much we spend on the SCA � but I�m not going to) once or twice a year we go on a mad, errand-driven, spree spending all the money normal folks spread out over two years. Let me just praise the Container Store who let�s you return anything for store credit, no matter how long it�s been, as long as they still sell it. We returned shelves we�d had for so long (maybe over a year?) the price had jumped 20%. And, after being married almost 12 years, we finally bought placemats. Which leads me to the random question about chargers. No not the destrier, war-horse chargers. They are circular placemat thingys in the shape of big plates that go under your plates. No, seriously. � where the hell was I? Chargers. Right. Day after Christmas, my sister-in-law was serving potato soup and Reuben sandwiches. Low key, post-holiday simple dinner. Now, in your mind, stack up the following items to make a place setting. White tablecloth, 80� oval. All this for potato soup and a reuben. Doing what all geeks do, I looked it up:
And my point is the people who invented the word thought you were supposed to put things on chargers, not use them as a placemat on top of a placemat. So, when we were in Crate and Barrel we did not buy the 16� neon colored chargers that are, apparently, the spring thing. I started this entry intending to write about orchids and meatloaf, but, having strayed a continent away from the target topic, I think I should go put some alcohol in the handy new Scotch glasses acquired during the spree and recite to myself �3600 arcsec in 1 degree.� � � � |