I’ve been making a lot of banana bread lately.
Why? Well, apart from the fact that I like it, I usually buy bananas every week and eat them before they get too mushy, but for some reason for the past couple of weeks I haven’t been managing to them in time to avoid the mushiness.
Once they become mushy, bananas are pretty much only good for making bread, so…
Of course, today when I decided to make banana bread I learned that practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect.
Between adding wrong amounts, nearly forgetting ingredients, and sending a spray of flour across my kitchen, I don’t think I could have screwed things up more if I’d tried.
The bread smells okay, so I’m hoping that’s a good sign and that I managed to snatch at least some amount of victory from the jaws of my ineptitude.
It’s been several hours since I wrote the paragraphs above. In that time I’ve discovered that my banana bread did, in fact, turn out okay.
I also started writing a long entry on the movie V for Vendetta which opens this week.
Though I haven’t seen the movie yet, there were several points I wanted to raise about it – and the early reaction it’s getting from other people who haven’t seen it yet – but I found myself getting bogged down in a kind of philosophical quagmire as I tried to expound on those points, so I think I’ll hold off on writing that particular entry for the time being.
Given the tremendous amount of time off I have during the week I always feel as though I should be accomplishing things, and given that I seldom do accomplish much of anything, I always end the week wishing that I had accomplished more.
This week I especially wanted to accomplish stuff because starting Friday I’ll be going for 11 days straight before I get a day off.
I’ll be spending all of next week at HQ for 40 hours of Linux training. This will, of course, follow right on the heels of my regular work days, and will be capped off by my regular work days.
So, 11 days without a break.
It’ll be pretty rough but it will at least make for a nice paycheck, and of course I’ll have picked up some new skills.
More Linux training will eventually follow, with an eye towards getting Red Hat Certification and somewhere along the line moving on to a different desk at work.
The meeting I usually have every other Thursday was actually scheduled for today this week. Shortly before I was going to get ready to head in for it Kathleen called and said that she was in Leesburg and that she’d be able to meet me for a quick lunch.
I said okay, though it did end up making me a couple minutes late for my meeting. Not that it really mattered, as nobody else is ever on time anyway.
Once the meeting was over I came home and that brings us to the banana bread near-fiasco.
Not much else of note happened today.
I continue to be fascinated by looking at the kinds of Web searches that bring people to Threshold. I also find myself wondering who some of the people who come here directly (presumably because it’s saved in their favorites) rather than following a link. There are a handful that I can identify based on location, but there are quite a few who remain mysterious.
Of course, the total numbers are depressingly low from an objective standard, but are surprisingly high based on my extremely low expectations.
(I average about 4 unique visitors per day, with the high so far being 16)
There haven’t been any more Bikini Cavegirl seekers in a few days.
I’m still don’t’ understand what’s up with that. I guess it will remain a question, wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a Bazooka Joe wrapper.
Running a distant second to Bikini Cavegirl, Carla Gugino is the other search term that most often leads unwary Web travelers here.
In any case, I think that will do it for this rather uneventful entry.
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