Listening to: Christmas music
Reading: Jewels of the Sun Nora Roberts
Weather: 50’s and foggy/drizzly
Trivia: What's the smallest graffiti in the world?
If you have any electronic device that contains microchips, you may own some chip graffiti, the smallest form of public art. For many years, chip designers have placed tiny, embossed drawings in unused spots on integrated circuit chips. The drawings are made out of the same silicon and other materials that form the circuits. The art is dying out because most chip designs these days are created by automatic software, but many devices still contain older chips that hold the drawings. There is great variety among the designs, which include human figures, animals, buildings, vehicles, appliances, comic strip
characters, and cultural icons like "Mr. T," the "happy face" and Pac Man.
Cool word: sandwich [n., v. SAND-wich]
A sandwich is a food item made from two or more slices of bread with meat, cheese, or other filling between them. It can also be anything that has similar alternating layers, and to sandwich something is to enclose it between two layers. This word's story goes back to the municipal borough of Sandwich, in England near Dover. In the 1760s, the fourth Earl of Sandwich was John Montague, a heavy gambler who liked to stay at the gaming tables for many hours. To make this possible, he instructed his servant to bring him pieces of meat and cheese between slices of bread. He could eat these without making a mess, while still keeping one hand free for rolling the dice. Montague's requested snack was not a new invention, but his extended gambling binges were well known. Soon his favorite bread and meat combination was known as a sandwich.
Ramblings
Today was a day of not doing much, but being busy. Which makes no sense.
I met Cathy for lunch at noon at The Olive Garden. I hate going out the day after Thanksgiving. The traffic is awful and there are never parking spaces anywhere. A drive that should have taken me five minutes took fifteen.
Lunch was fine. We talked about nothing for three hours. I have no real recollection of what we did talk about. I know I was paying attention, but nothing made any impression. I went home immediately after lunch, which was about three o’clock. I had no desire to be out in the crowds.
I talked on the phone to Dee for a while, but neither of us had much to say. I’m tired of going over and over the same stuff where the chorus is concerned. Neither of us wanted to go out, so that more or less ended our conversation.
I think we’re getting boring.
So I spent a few hours writing two diagnostic reports I need to have at school on Monday. Amazing. I’d normally wait until Sunday night to do that.
I just discovered that I know the guy who won the million bucks on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". He went to the high school that I taught at. My brothers were the ones who mentioned that he was originally from Northampton, so I hauled out my yearbooks to see if he’d gone to the high school. He had. I honestly can’t say I remember him, but he graduated with my friend R.J. I was close to many of the members of his class. That was the year I directed "Irene" as our musical.
Small world.
There’s a discussion on one of the diary lists about the game Snood and how addictive it is. I must be ahead of my time. I’ve been hooked on Snood for months. It was originally just available as a download for the Mac, but has recently become available for PC’s I guess. I get obsessed with it and play for huge amounts of time when I should be doing something else.
now if they’d only make the game "Same" available for the Mac….
Tonight was Iron Chef night. It was the Blue Crab battle, and the challenger had been trained by the granddaughter of the real king in the "King and I". Apparently Chairman Kaga hit the costume room from a production of that musical. His jacket was the same one Yul Brenner wore in the stage production. Of course Kaga’s outfits are so strange that he probably has his own "King and I" collection!
And why does he always wear those black leather gloves? They sure didn’t go with the jacket.
While I’m at it, I also want to know why every challenger profile begins with the phrase, "If memory serves me correctly…".
I love the Amazon commercials that imitate Mitch Miller and the Gang. I grew up listening to them, and still play them as part of my Christmas collection. They are very cleverly written as far as they lyrics are concerned as well. I particularly like the line "I’m sucking down the eggnog with twenty-three days to go". Cracks me up.
My neck is feeling a bit better, but I’m keeping myself on a regular dose of Advil. I thought I’d improved last night, but when I went to turn over in bed I thought I was going to go into totally spasm. My mother gave me "Icy Hot" to try to help relieve the pain. I slathered it on generously (as per the directions) and thought my skin was on fire! It was horrible. I had to find a wet towel so I could wipe it off, but enough had seeped into my skin to really be uncomfortable. I don’t know what’s in that stuff, but…OUCH!
Tomorrow I plan to dust and vacuum, find web graphics for December, and stamp. Not necessarily in that order.
Wonder if I’ll get any of them done? Good chance for the computer stuff, not sure about the rest!
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