Types

Tonight over dinner Mary and I worked out what my "type" of person is: older, pear-shaped, and a stick-in-the-mud. It's hard to see why I'm not dating anyone.

At the Coffee Shop

Andrew, Lucy, and I sit in a busy Paradiso when the music is turned down and a barista asks if Lucinda Cross is still there. It takes me a fraction of a second to misinterpret the question to mean that the barista is telling the customers that Lucinda Williams is there. I scan the tables to see if she really is. Andrew, on the other hand, is not at all confused by this and immediately points at Lucy and yells, "It's her! There she is!" The coffee shop is completely quiet as Lucy stands up and walks to the counter as I dissolve into laughter.

Dear Leah and Ceri,

Today I mailed you each a package and in both cases the shipping charge was twice what I paid for the item in your respective boxes.

What's up with that?

Love,

eH

As you can read...

...washing my keyboard totally worked.


And so did the catcam

Dishwashing

Yes. I put my keyboard in the dishwasher and washed it. To be on the safe side I've been letting it dry out for about three days now and will probably let it dry more over the weekend. I didn't take pictures of the process but I did stage a reenactment for you. Of course I won't post those pictures until until the keyboard is dry and I can hook it back up to my computer.

Other good news of the day includes my car only needing more antifreeze, thrift store finds (I bought you some jeans LAH), a dentist appointment, and the completion of the Graduate Academy.

Already I'm tired from the semester.

School's about to start

So I built the catcam and it worked. And thanks to David's suggestion, I took a few pictures of the progress. However I'm not going to post them until later because I'm using my very slow laptop while the keyboard for my desk top dries out. And that's about it.

My Year-in-Review Post

Because I'm taking apart a digital camera today, this is just a list of my favorite tools of 2007.

(in the order that I think of them)

1. Precision screwdriver set

2. The forks that came with the Treehouse that have thin tines and cream handles.

3. Vice-grips

4. Pipe cutter that used to belong to my grandfather

5. Cordless electric drills

6. The reformatting option I have for my brain.

7. The internet

8. My roommate's pressure cooker she brought all the way from Korea.

9. Pencils

10. Fingernails