When Dan and I went to lunch yesterday he had gotten his food and went to find us a table while I waited for my food to be ready (he gets what I call preferential Asian treatment from the mostly-Asian staff; no matter what he orders or when, he always gets his food before I get mine).
Once I got to the table I noticed a woman at a nearby table looking rather distressed, while several men were hovering around her solicitously. Eventually the men put a bunch of chairs together and laid her out across them.
I looked over, then looked back, and Dan said, "She's having chest pains."
Eventually the paramedics arrived - it can't be good for business to have paramedics at your cafe at lunchtime - and began tending to her.
As we were walking back, Dan said that when she had just been sitting there looking miserable some guy came up to her and yelled "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!"
Apparently he was actually trying to be sympathetic but just panicked, but Dan said it initially came off like he was saying, "You do this everywhere we go! Fuckin' drama queen!"
This made me LOL.
*****
Lately, for the hell of it more than anything else, I've been spiking my hair with gel in the morning.
On Wednesday when I stopped by my boss' office to say welcome back, she commented on my hair, and then said to her boss, who was checking in with her, "I leave the office for a while and Jon's hair stands on end!"
*****
One problem with spiking my hair is that it limits my hair's ability to serve as an impromptu towel if I spill something on my hands.
*****
(During our little get-together to have cake and welcome back the boss)
Co-Worker 1: When she gets here, should we sing something? Like "For she's a jolly good fellow," maybe?
Co-Worker 2: I don't know the words to that.
Co-Worker 1: What? It's just, you know, "for she's a jolly good fellow, for she's..."
Co-Worker 2: (Shaking her head and looking hopelessly confused) No...I don't...I've never...
Co-Worker 1: But..I...everyone knows...it's just, "For she's a -"
Co-Worker 2: (Realizing that sarcastically playing dumb isn't getting the point across) No singing!
(For the record, I'm increasingly coming to think that Co-Worker 2 is awesome.)
Friday, October 09, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Everything Is A Wiki These Days...Even Blasphemy!
Over at Slacktivist there are a two posts focusing on the Conservative Bible Project.
They're definitely worth a read.
For the uninitiated, the Conservative Bible Project is an effort to "retranslate" the Bible in an effort to remove "liberal bias."
I'm not kidding.
Now, I am admittedly neither a theist nor a theologian, but rewriting the Bible to suit your own agenda...how is this not blasphemy?
(Bonus: Here's someone who thinks that some Christians spend entirely too much time focusing on what Christ said. "Yeah, Jesus is great and all, but honestly, 50, 60 percent of the time I just zone out whenever He gets on about love and feeding the hungry and helping the poor and blah blah blah. Now give me some good old-fashioned hating the gays and you've got my attention!")
They're definitely worth a read.
For the uninitiated, the Conservative Bible Project is an effort to "retranslate" the Bible in an effort to remove "liberal bias."
I'm not kidding.
Now, I am admittedly neither a theist nor a theologian, but rewriting the Bible to suit your own agenda...how is this not blasphemy?
(Bonus: Here's someone who thinks that some Christians spend entirely too much time focusing on what Christ said. "Yeah, Jesus is great and all, but honestly, 50, 60 percent of the time I just zone out whenever He gets on about love and feeding the hungry and helping the poor and blah blah blah. Now give me some good old-fashioned hating the gays and you've got my attention!")
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Quick Update (With A Recipe)
After being out since August on medical leave, my boss came back to work today.
Yesterday I thought, "I should make her a cake."
Seeing as how I had to stop somewhere after work to get a birthday card for my niece Jenni (more on that in a bit), I decided to pick up what I needed and do just htat.
I went with what I'm sort of known for: a mint chocolate cake
The recipe is as follows:
White cake mix
Peppermint Extract
Chocolate syrup
Green food coloring
Cool Whip (8 oz should be sufficient)
Prepare the cake mix per the instructions on the box, but add about 1/4 tsp of the Peppermint Extract to the mix. Bake per the the instructions in a 9x13 pan.
Let the cake cool, then take a wooden spoon with a round handle and use the handle to poke a series of regularly-spaced holes in the cake (I usually go four or five holes across by however many can fit along the length of it). Fill the holes with chocolate syrup.
Next, add 1/4 tsp of the Peppermint Extract to the Cool Whip, along with a dash of the green food coloring (this is optional, and I don't give an exact measure because it's up to you how green you want to make it), stir it all together until you've got an even color, then spread it over the top of the cake.
Finally, drizzle some more chocolate syrup on top of the Cool Whip in whatever pattern you like.
It's best to keep the cake refrigerated, as the frosting can get kind of runny at room temperature.
In my experience, people will love it, and will assume that it was incredibly complicated to make.
The cake was enjoyed by everyone on my team, and greatly appreciated by my boss. Everyone was amazed by the fact that 1. I could bake at all 2. I could bake something so seemingly complicated 3. I was thoughtful enough to do something like that.
While I'd mostly intended it just for us, there were other people coming in and out of the break room, so we couldn't really say, "No! You can't have cake!" so several other people had some. One person, after finishing his piece, asked who made it. When everyone pointed to me, he came over and shook my hand. I guess he liked it.
As for the birthday card...last time I had to stop at a store to pick up a birthday card it was for my nephew Jacob. I was stymied by the fact that while they had plenty of cards for nieces (and daughters, and granddaughters, and sisters, and moms) they had virtually no cards for nephews (or males in general). I finally managed to find one card for a nephew.
This time around there were virtually no cards for females, and absolutely none for nieces.
Who knew that birthday cards based on gender were seasonal?
(Seriously, WTF?)
Finally I had to settle on a non-gender-specific card.
We didn't do Riff Trax night tonight, as two of the kids have confirmed cases of the flu and Scott woke up this morning exhibiting symptoms.
We were actually planning to postpone it until tomorrow anyway, as Scott was going to have to watch the kids tonight, but now we won't be having it at all this week. Oh well.
As for me, I've been dividing my time between not doing anything in particular and working on the picture I started on Sunday (I said it was complex and would take a while).
And that pretty much brings you up to date.
Yesterday I thought, "I should make her a cake."
Seeing as how I had to stop somewhere after work to get a birthday card for my niece Jenni (more on that in a bit), I decided to pick up what I needed and do just htat.
I went with what I'm sort of known for: a mint chocolate cake
The recipe is as follows:
White cake mix
Peppermint Extract
Chocolate syrup
Green food coloring
Cool Whip (8 oz should be sufficient)
Prepare the cake mix per the instructions on the box, but add about 1/4 tsp of the Peppermint Extract to the mix. Bake per the the instructions in a 9x13 pan.
Let the cake cool, then take a wooden spoon with a round handle and use the handle to poke a series of regularly-spaced holes in the cake (I usually go four or five holes across by however many can fit along the length of it). Fill the holes with chocolate syrup.
Next, add 1/4 tsp of the Peppermint Extract to the Cool Whip, along with a dash of the green food coloring (this is optional, and I don't give an exact measure because it's up to you how green you want to make it), stir it all together until you've got an even color, then spread it over the top of the cake.
Finally, drizzle some more chocolate syrup on top of the Cool Whip in whatever pattern you like.
It's best to keep the cake refrigerated, as the frosting can get kind of runny at room temperature.
In my experience, people will love it, and will assume that it was incredibly complicated to make.
The cake was enjoyed by everyone on my team, and greatly appreciated by my boss. Everyone was amazed by the fact that 1. I could bake at all 2. I could bake something so seemingly complicated 3. I was thoughtful enough to do something like that.
While I'd mostly intended it just for us, there were other people coming in and out of the break room, so we couldn't really say, "No! You can't have cake!" so several other people had some. One person, after finishing his piece, asked who made it. When everyone pointed to me, he came over and shook my hand. I guess he liked it.
As for the birthday card...last time I had to stop at a store to pick up a birthday card it was for my nephew Jacob. I was stymied by the fact that while they had plenty of cards for nieces (and daughters, and granddaughters, and sisters, and moms) they had virtually no cards for nephews (or males in general). I finally managed to find one card for a nephew.
This time around there were virtually no cards for females, and absolutely none for nieces.
Who knew that birthday cards based on gender were seasonal?
(Seriously, WTF?)
Finally I had to settle on a non-gender-specific card.
We didn't do Riff Trax night tonight, as two of the kids have confirmed cases of the flu and Scott woke up this morning exhibiting symptoms.
We were actually planning to postpone it until tomorrow anyway, as Scott was going to have to watch the kids tonight, but now we won't be having it at all this week. Oh well.
As for me, I've been dividing my time between not doing anything in particular and working on the picture I started on Sunday (I said it was complex and would take a while).
And that pretty much brings you up to date.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
A Conversation Via IM
Me: i can't type the word medium today
Me: keep leaving out the d
Scott: medium. medium medium medium. Nope, no problems there.
Scott: You must be retahded.
Me: well la de da
Me: "ooh, look at me, i'm scott! i can type medium!"
Me: congratuf***inglations, your majesty
Me: keep leaving out the d
Scott: medium. medium medium medium. Nope, no problems there.
Scott: You must be retahded.
Me: well la de da
Me: "ooh, look at me, i'm scott! i can type medium!"
Me: congratuf***inglations, your majesty
Monday, October 05, 2009
That Can't Be Right
I can't have a blog, right? I mean, if I did have one I'd post entries on it.
Seriously? I actually have a blog.
Huh, live and learn.
You really haven't been missing much, though.
Friday night I did some more comic book organizing, getting into the Ts before running out of Drawer Boxes.
Saturday I went to the comic shop in the hopes of picking up some more, but they didn't have any in stock, so they had to order some more.
I realized that I didn't need to go grocery shopping, so after the comic shop I just came straight home.
I really didn't do much else.
I did do some drawing, but the one thing I finished - which I used my drafting table to actually sketch out, the scanned in to my computer to finish - looked like crap. The other thing is pretty complex, and is probably going to take a while to finish.
That's pretty much it.
This morning Dan and I walked over to the cafe in a nearby building to hit the breakfast bar. On the walk back, things shifted around in my containter, so my scrambled eggs got mixed in with the fruit I'd gotten.
And not just a little bit, either. It ended up looking like the fruit had been mixed in with the eggs while they were cooking. Orange-Pineapple flavored eggs...not exactly the new taste sensation.
And there you have it. My life since my last post.
Seriously? I actually have a blog.
Huh, live and learn.
You really haven't been missing much, though.
Friday night I did some more comic book organizing, getting into the Ts before running out of Drawer Boxes.
Saturday I went to the comic shop in the hopes of picking up some more, but they didn't have any in stock, so they had to order some more.
I realized that I didn't need to go grocery shopping, so after the comic shop I just came straight home.
I really didn't do much else.
I did do some drawing, but the one thing I finished - which I used my drafting table to actually sketch out, the scanned in to my computer to finish - looked like crap. The other thing is pretty complex, and is probably going to take a while to finish.
That's pretty much it.
This morning Dan and I walked over to the cafe in a nearby building to hit the breakfast bar. On the walk back, things shifted around in my containter, so my scrambled eggs got mixed in with the fruit I'd gotten.
And not just a little bit, either. It ended up looking like the fruit had been mixed in with the eggs while they were cooking. Orange-Pineapple flavored eggs...not exactly the new taste sensation.
And there you have it. My life since my last post.
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