random things
I made french toast for lunch today, with real maple syrup. All those years I thought I didn't like it and I was actually only ever eating fake pancake syrup products. Such a huge difference. The toast came out pretty nicely. Homemade french toast and iced coffee = happiness.
Robots are useful but cold and cannot love you. Cats are the opposite - useless but full of love. So Mike observed this afternoon while I was running the Roomba and Scooba team in the library. I also loaded the dishwasher and scrubbed the bath tub.
Most of the afternoon I've been hacking away at tyring to put together a mock up for a newsletter, for a proposal I need to finish. I am hampered by not having any good software. While Adobe Acrobat is only $300... sigh. I need a useful free/cheap WYSIWYG editor to make some html pages or pdfs. Open Office has failed me. While I worked up something reasonable, it refuses to save as html without garbling everything together.
Lately we play Carcassonne a couple nights a week. I found an edition with several expansions in one box, so we use a couple and play hours long games of giant maps. It's fun. Though I seem incapable of holding the rules in my head as far as scores. While I was once an avid and excellent Risk player, I'm not any good at chess or many other strategy games.
Robots are useful but cold and cannot love you. Cats are the opposite - useless but full of love. So Mike observed this afternoon while I was running the Roomba and Scooba team in the library. I also loaded the dishwasher and scrubbed the bath tub.
Most of the afternoon I've been hacking away at tyring to put together a mock up for a newsletter, for a proposal I need to finish. I am hampered by not having any good software. While Adobe Acrobat is only $300... sigh. I need a useful free/cheap WYSIWYG editor to make some html pages or pdfs. Open Office has failed me. While I worked up something reasonable, it refuses to save as html without garbling everything together.
Lately we play Carcassonne a couple nights a week. I found an edition with several expansions in one box, so we use a couple and play hours long games of giant maps. It's fun. Though I seem incapable of holding the rules in my head as far as scores. While I was once an avid and excellent Risk player, I'm not any good at chess or many other strategy games.