Good idea: Monday morning, I put ingredients for chili in the slow cooker before work, whne we got home, yummy chili awaited.
Bad idea: Tuesday morning, I tossed a turkey breast and some mushroom soup with a can of mushrooms, and some broccoli and cauliflower in the cooker. When we got home, the place stunk like farts and sweaty feet! Broccoli and cauliflower should not be left to cook all day!
Good idea: Chips and salsa for a bedtime snack.
Bad Idea: Pace Hot salsa! It was so hot it made my ears ache, and I woke up at 2am with a big ball of molten lava sitting in my throat!
Reminded me of a night when our geological field methods class was returning from a field trip and we were still ~50 miles south of the border. Our van had become separated from the convoy and a TA was driving w/~8 students when we got pulled over (11 PM, 2 lane road), more like blockaded, by a Federales car. TA stopped and immediately said: “Anybody in here fluent in Spanish?”
Some guy in the back: “Yes, I grew up in Mexico City!”
TA: “Keep your mouth shut!”
TA rolls down window as Federale walks up.
TA: “(as well as I can render…) Bune oce dye ass, cye noore!”
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective