Good afternoon and happy Day After Election Day! Welcome to the newly conservative Canada. Warning- may be less friendly than the old Canada. We may even stop apologising when you step on our feet.
I think you should demand a parade and a chariot pulled by emus, Taters.
Draelin, I envy you your bell tower. It’s awesome.
Today is Busy Day for me. I was going to bake tomorrow, but last night I got The Bread Bible from the library, and felt I had to try sponge method and autolysing. This morning I got up, pulled the starter out of the fridge, made three batches of dough (with Matilda’s help), and took myself off to the laundromat while it rose. While the laundry did it’s thing I picked up some stuff at the grocery store.
I just got home and checked the dough. I’m giving it another half hour or so, so in the interim I’ll fold laundry and eat lunch. I still have to
Bleach out the litterbox and refill it
Do alll the garbage and recycling
Make a Costco shopping list and meal plan for the next week
Go through our books and see if there’s any we can bear to part with.
Clean the kitchen sink and the bathtub.
Tidy the bloody living room. We only have two people living here! How does it get so messy?
Well, three if you count Attacks Husba… wait, four if you count Driving Husband, too.
Back from eye doctor–#2 needs a slightly new Rx–a bit weaker than his old one (thank god). He picked out SpongeBob frames–complete with tiny life buoys on the stems.
Am back for a good while. Need to empty dishwasher and create dinner. I like the computer room now–it’s so nice and clean. Too bad 'bout the rest of the house.
but I’ll stay in here, and admire the nice, clean walls, floor and windows…
Hafta get up and BE at work at 0600 (30 minute drive). :eek:
Want M&M’s badly, but UK is a-callin’.
We (my family of origin and my nuclear family) are travelling to Paris to inter my sister’s ashes. Then my NF goes onto London for a vaca. I am really looking forward to it.
My husband is going with us. This may seem odd, given the situation between us, but he loved my sister too, and she, him. Also, it’s not like we can’t be civil and nice to one another. So, there is the plan.
Whew - back from post-work errands. Thanks to all for the belated wishes. For the record, I’m still 52…
And I meant to post this yesterday, inspired by the list on the OP:
[Blazing Saddles]You’d do it for Randolph Scott![/BS]
Nothing exciting today, alas. It’s sunny and cold. We’re having salmon for dinner, but what I really want is pizza. A new pizza restaurant opened in Leonardtown. I think that’s where I’ll have FCD take me next week when we’re into Phase 2. I should be more in control by then. But for tonight, it’ll be salmon, broccoli, and maybe carrots.
I just noticed I have a cut on my finger and it’s bleeding a bit. Poor, poor me! Plus psycho-kitty ran back and forth and back again, for no apparent reason. Cats do that, right?
Hah! I have put most of the laundry away, baked six loaves of bread, and am soaking the litterbox and kitchen garbage bin in cleaner, bleach, and water! I have organized my socks/undies drawer! I am a dynamo!
Anyone want to do the rest for me?
I just finished a piece of warm whole wheat bread with a little butter. It was good. The bread didn’t rise in the oven as much as I thought it would, but it’s still pretty light, and The Goddess of Bread says that that was probably because it rose so much in the last rising. Maybe I can learn to make ciabatta next.
I don’t know if I want to bleach something our cats use - they’re so fussy about things that they may just stop using it (it’s an enclosed unit.) So I scoop out the stuff they leave behind everyday just before dinner, and on the weekends I change out the litter with new stuff.
Congratulations Taters! Keep up the great work! I say go for the ceremony, but you should do what you feel comfortable with. The division gathering seems like a nice compromise. By the way, Taters, if you don’t mind me asking, do you have children? Because they’d need to be referred to as Tater tots.
Class was interesting today. In General Relativity we covered tidal forces. I now actually understand why the ocean tides behave as they do. Religion and Society was good too; I have a topic for the course project (systematic analysis of proofs for the existence of a god or gods) and “my team.” See, before you go thinking I’m full of myself, you should [del]know that I am[/del] consider the interesting history I have with this professor. I showed up in his Intro to Sociology course a year ago, a physics major so indoctrinated with Western scientific thought that I was practically welcoming our new machine overlords, and so contentious that I regularly and openly challenged this 60something year old sociologist who’s forgotten more about how the world works than I’ll ever know.
Since then, I’ve taken so quickly and so readily to the sociological worldview that (along with a couple of other regulars in these courses, to a certain extent) I’ve moved beyond the kindergarten sociology he teaches at the undergraduate level. So when he asked us to start thinking about our final projects, and he started throwing out suggestions, he mentioned the above idea, and I said I’d do that one. He had me stand up, since I was “the chief,” and evaluate those who said they wanted to work on it with me. All in jest, of course, but the dynamic is there nonetheless. And for the record, I’m not one iota less contentious now than I was then.
All this talk of food has made me hungry. I think I’m going to grab a snack and then head into the newspaper office to do some copy reading. One last thing:
Spats, I do have children, but they’re a little old to be called Tots. One is thirteen and the other is sixteen. It’s difficult to come up with good screen names for them when I talk about them.
Thanks all for the congrats and thoughts. I’m still mulling it over. My husband told me I should go for the gusto and thinks it odd they even asked how I wanted it presented. I dunno, I dunno. I guess I’ll need to come up with an answer soon.
Sean, Sean, Sean… you need to come out of your delusional world. You know the Hawks are going to win…you just need to accept the fact.
It’s a wee bit complicated, but I’ll do my best to explain it. Now, the thing about the tides caused by the moon is that the ocean bulges up towards the moon, which is easy to understand, but it also bulges away from the moon on the other side of the Earth. You can’t explain that just by saying “the moon gravitationally attracts the oceans.”
To get to how it does work, we start with the idea that no gravitational field is uniform. Let’s switch to using the moon as our base of operations, for reasons that will become clear later. If I’m near the moon, how much I weigh depends on how far away I am from the moon’s center. (As it happens, the strength of the field falls off as the square of the distance.) So for an object in freefall above the moon – say, in orbit – the gravitational force on the bottom of it is slightly more than the gravitational force on the top, because of the distance. The difference between the two is called the tidal force.
One quick definition: when a force on an object tends to push it back to some center point, we call that a restoring force. Now, it turns out that when we actually calculate the tidal force, it’s a restoring force in the directions parallel to the moon’s surface (tangent to it, actually), but in the direction radially away from the moon, it’s the opposite of a restoring force. If you consider a cylinder, it’s like the tidal force is trying to elongate it. Mathematically this happens because that direction is the only one in which the object is displaced from the moon’s center, and physically it happens because the bottom of the orbiting object is being pulled away from the rest of the object. The moon’s gravity pulls harder on the closer side of the object than on the farther.
What does this have to do with the tides? Consider that the Earth itself is orbiting the moon (they’re orbiting each other). So it tells us that the oceans don’t bulge away from the moon on the far side of the Earth, but rather the oceans on the moon-side, as well as all the Earth in between, are pulled away from the oceans on the not-moon-side, so it looks like the oceans are bulging.
I’m sure I would have understood it if my eyes hadn’t glazed over.
Really! I would have!
In other news, I need new bras. I have decided to get some. This was spurred by cleaning out that drawer. My old ones are all falling apart and have underwire poking out and stuff. Unfortunately the lingere place across the street has already closed. Do I want to phone my parents and ask if they’d like to go to a mall, or should I wait for tomorrow? The difficulty is that the place across the street is pretty small, and selection is limited.
Hey, Lissla! I want to thank you for mentioning (lo these many months ago) the book Pyongyang by Guy Delisle. I bought it from Amazon with my birthday money, and finished it last night. He’s great! I loved it! I never would have heard of it otherwise. Thanks bunches!
I HATE math or anything like it.