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Nutty? NUTTY!?! I *ahem* resemble that remark...(no-reg link as well).

In other news, my mother is a supremely wise person. I'm the kind of person who prefers action, any action, over inaction. Most of the time this works out fairly well. In the current situation (re: house), it isn't. So, after hearing all the latest icky developments, she suggested that I simply...do nothing.

And you know what? She's right. ( I'm getting rambly about the house situation again )

So...I do nothing. Leave the burden of action to Erik, and see what happens. Should be interesting, at least.

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Imagine me attempting to not fall over my desk laughing hysterically and kicking my feet in the air.

Fu-Master speaketh: "I could be a branch head. I'm a good mentor, so-and-so said so!"

....yea. Mr. "Let's 'upgrade' the most important person in the building's connection and make it so he can't get to his email for three days" is a good mentor. Mr. "I cause more problems than I fix" should be put in charge of a mulit-million dollar budget, two buildings with multiple lab facilities, and lots of smart people. Right. And pigs fly.

Methinks it's a good thing that I'm only working two days this week.

Sweet or Unsweet?

How you know you're in the Sahwth

Why can't our national legistature have a sense of humor? (Yes, this was a joke, although the senator who wrote it admitted that he wouldn't have objected if it had passed).

In most parts of the US you just get a funny look if you ask for sweet tea. It was funny bringing my Southern grandfather to visit my other grandparents in Arizona - he ordered sweet tea everywhere we went, and always got a variety of funny responses, from quizzical looks to confused "we don't serve that"s.

Briney Sea

I just had the best pork chops I've ever had in my life, and I cooked them. Daaaaamn.

I decided to try brining them, after reading about it in a comment on (of all places) Slashdot. I made the brine yesterday, chilled it, and left the pork chops in for about 20 hours. When I cooked them I forgot the whole "they cook much faster after you brine it" thing and overcooked them a bit, but just a little bit. They had so much flavor. Yum. The mashed potatoes and miso soup we had were good as well.

Cooking is fun.