Thanks to Jan for the recent contribution.
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
For the month, we are very fortunate to have a beautiful conjunction between Venus and Jupiter. I managed to snap this shot on Friday night: Venus is at the top, and Jupiter is at the bottom. Just tonight, I noticed that the moon was beautifully aligned with these two planets. Here is the first image …read more…
Cutting Boards
I only use wooden or bamboo cutting boards. Plastic or acrylic ones dull your knives, and a dull knife on a slick surface (especially made slicker by the juice escaping from whatever you’re cutting up) is going to slip. Some people prefer plastic cutting boards in the mistaken belief that plastic ones don’t allow bacteria …read more…
Thanks
Thanks to Greg Z. for the recent contribution.
the envelope please….
Just so I don’t forget, my new address is: Kenneth John Odle PO Box 215 Portage, MI 49081 You can send me stuff there. Here are the demographics of my new address. I’ve got a lot of stuff to get done in the next few days, so if you don’t hear from me in all …read more…
let’s make biscuits!
This has been a pretty strange day. I slept far later than I intended to—about 10:30. (Those of you who know me in real life know that 8:00 am is sleeping in for me, so 10:30 is like coming out of a coma.) Yesterday was a long day—about fourteen hours between the two jobs—and while …read more…
aliens keep stealing my pencils
I always take along a bunch of sharpened pencils when I substitute teach. I don’t want a kid sitting there doing nothing because they don’t have something to write with, and you would be surprised how many teachers don’t provide any sort of writing implement, and how many don’t have a functioning pencil sharpener in …read more…
