I Have a Lot of Photos of Rocks

... and most of you aren't terribly interested in them. But for those of you who are, I have made a page on Flickr so you can see them.

There's other photos there, too. Right now there are some pictures of Plants I Like.

There will be more photos, probably this weekend.

Good Things About Houston, Part II

I have not forgottened my intention to find some Good Things about Houston. It's been hard... really, really hard... but today I managed to discover two Good Things about Houston. Here is the first one:

Yes, it is a six-pound can of tomato sauce. I haven't seen one of these in years. I think I still ate meat last time I saw Mom make sauce with an enormo-can. Today I made a batch of sauce using only one can of Hunt's, instead of the three or four I have had to use in the past. The size of my batch of sauce is now limited by the size of my biggest pot (thank you, Mumsy, for the big pot) instead of how many cans I could open before I got bored (thank you, Grandpa, for the impatience genes).

Ok, now for the second Good Thing:

It's bread. Or at least, it was bread about an hour and a half after this picture was taken. It took only about an hour for this blob to double while sitting out on the porch, in the sun, with a damp cloth on. The second rising took less than half an hour.

Go, porch.

House of Toast Report

Thursday: HoT closed before I got there. V. sad. Guy said they ran out of toppings anyway.
Friday: Wheat toast with hummus, garlic, and tomato. Mmmmm.
Saturday: White toast with Nutella, Cap'n Crunch, and sprinkles. Also mmmmmm.
Also Saturday: White toast with cheesy artichoke topping. Say it with me: mmmmmm.

Ahhh, House of Toast...

Sorry, I've Been Busy

Where were we? Oh, yes:
27.5 hours until House of Toast!!!!!!!

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!

44.5 hours until House of Toast!!!!!!!

WOOT! WOOT!

57 hours until House of Toast!!!!!!!!!

WOOT!

70 hours until House of Toast!!!!!!!!!

Ain't Technology Grand?

I finally got internet at home. More to the point: I finally got internet to work at home. To be perfectly honest, some huge guy named Robert Tech 124 finally got internet to work at my home. Now I can update my blog in the comfort of my own PJs.

But since I still have nothing interesting to relate to all of you, it hardly seems to matter.

The biggest news I have this week is that I finally took care of my HazWOPER refresher for the year. No, I don't really need it for this job, but those of you who have sat through the 40-hour initial course will understand why I would rather pay out of my own pocket for the refresher than let my certification expire and have to sit through the whole course again.

Tears of despair threaten even as I think such a thing.

Definitely better to pay to spend 8 hours with an online course that tells you things like "to clean up an acid spill, you should pour a base on it." At least I got a good laugh out of this.

In other news, according to Weatherbug it's 95 in Farmington, but the humidity is 8%, so the heat index is 88. Here it's 94, but the humidity is 39%, so the heat index is 98.

I want my desert back!

If I Water My Computer, Will It Grow More RAM?

This is my current office during a rainstorm. Some of you are unimpressed. You are probably the ones who never saw pictures of my old office during a rainstorm.



Can you see the difference? See all the rain pouring down the INSIDE of the building? See the line of buckets and trash bins trying to catch the rain pouring down the INSIDE of the building? Now let's look at the inside of my new office again.




See the remarkable lack of interior precipitation? It is entirely possible that there is something good about Houston, after all.

Hurricane Season #1: The Saga Begins

I have experienced my first official Tropical Storm Watch. Or Alert. Or something. Anyway, there was a tropical storm and it's hundreds of miles away but it was all over TV like a tornado warning.
Yay for flood insurance. Like my sprinkler, something I never wanted to own, but now find myself really excited about.