I needed a name for a canal. For those who haven’t heard me say this a thousand times, I hate coming up with names. My go-to tool for this dreaded task is Google Translate. I run several words characteristic of the name-requiring thing through every available language, make a list of promising results, and then […]
Sat in on a class about web accessibility. Learned a couple of things I can still improve here, mostly in relation to links. Hearing about different ways people use assistive technology (e.g., they may ask for all links on a page to be read to them as a list, so the link text should include
Finally got through the go-back-and-fix portion, including the “maybe move that later thing here” notes I had left in some places to be addressed in Round Three. Easier to deal with the hole from the extraction when I get to it later than to perform the extraction, transplant, and repair all at once and cross
I’ve been doing the slice-of-life thing for a year now, which is a long enough trial to conclude I’m not a fan. Rather than engendering empathy, it seems to invite people to view other’s lives as entertainment and complain when the season doesn’t live up to expectations. There’s no benefit to me, but there is
Just found out that for a mere additional $1800, Kiddo’s driver’s ed class will do what we actually needed it to do. Cannot emphasize enough that I do not have a car and therefore do not have insurance to put her on and therefore cannot clock 60 hours of practice driving, hence the entire purpose
Night before last, I got 2 hours of sleep. So it would be easier to take a nap if the opportunity presented, I didn’t take any of the caffeine I use to self-medicate the ADHD. I stole about 2 more hours during the day[efn_note]The floor is perfectly comfortable when the divine hand of Fatigue is
I’ve always preferred the ease of sheet cakes to the hassle of un-panning, stacking, and fussily frosting layer cakes, but I’ve figured out that if I make the layers, top-frost one in its pan, and wrap-and-freeze the other, not only do we not have to race to eat a ton of cake before it gets
To compensate for my terrible mood herein, here’s a bop about being possessed by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. I wish I still had a car so I could get in it and badly sing this song at the top of my lungs repeatedly for the 20 minutes it takes me to get to
Today’s surprise knowledge bomb was about shagbark hickory. Nature is inspiring. *toddles off to write horrifying things* And hey, it’s super cool that one can be as ancient as I am, be referred to by others as “a walking encyclopedia” (thanks, unlimited storage capacity for useless information!), and still, on a fairly regular basis, have
I had to make a dessert with slim pickings in the ingredient department, and this is how we get things like cranberry-orange coffee cake with a layer of thinly sliced canned cranberry jelly instead of studded with whole berries. It felt very much like having to incorporate the groan-inducing “surprise” ingredient on a baking competition