strawberry jam

Strawberry jam all over the cat! Now why would the kids do something like that? Well, the cable modem went down, and so I went upstairs and made strawberry jam, and, well, we’ll see if it turns out. The good news is that the 3 jars that were actually full sealed properly. The fourth one, which wasn’t quite full, didn’t, but that’s pretty much to be expected. Now, well, we wait 12 hours and see if it set up! *hopehopehope*! It’s SSSSNOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWING!

meeting cancelled

Well, my 9am meeting for which I purposefully got up early has been cancelled. However, this means I can bail from work before 4, since I got to work before 8, and this means I should have time to make a batch of jam before swimming, and I should ALSO have time to make a batch of jam AFTER swimming. There wil be ALL the jam!

bwahahaha!

Trip is so cool! Jessica, of whom I speak in the next entry, was looking for a series of books which I hadn’t read, but I gave her one-line summary on Too, and Trip said, “Um, the Crossroads books by Nick O’Donohoe?” and I emailed her with the titles and lo! Those were indeed the books she wanted! Trip is so cool!

retroactive updates

My net crapped out on Friday and more or less stayed crapped out through the weekend, so it’s been a very slow weekend for updates. :) Friday, while my net was hanging in the wind, I sort of wandered around and looked for something to read. Now, with the 40 or something new books that I acquired over Christmas, you would think that this wouldn’t be difficult to accomplish. I mean, forty books, right? So of course I ended up re-reading the Mordant’s Need books, because I wanted something old…

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