Messing about with empathy
Today’s tip is for PC users, specifically anyone using Windows 10. If you use a Mac or something else, there’s probably a way to do what I’m going to talk about, just not the way I suggest. If you know what it is, let me know. I watched a YouTube video that had twenty tricks…
I loved dinosaurs when I was a kid, I don’t know when that love started, but there is a family story that when I was six, I told someone I wanted to be a paleontologist. My favorite dinosaur has always been the brontosaurus, even when there were no brontosauruses. I would tell that to anyone,…
If I say, “It’s supposed to rain the day after tomorrow,” that’s normal. But if I say, “It’s supposed to rain overmorrow,” you would wonder what I meant. Overmorrow means “the day after tomorrow.” It disappeared from the common language in the early twentieth century. Who decided that? I think overmorrow is a useful word,…
This title sounds like a show on the Food Network. Actually, a fun COVID-safe cooking show would be to have three contestants make a dish using only the food in their house. All the dishes would have the same theme. I don’t know how it would be judged, but it would be fun to see…
I stumbled across a How It’s Made video that brought back a memory. This episode showed how chocolate coins were made. I found it fascinating, which is weird because I’m not fond of chocolate coins. In the video, quality chocolate was melted to make the coins. My experience is that chocolate coins are mediocre at…
March is National Celery Month. This was a new one to me. I like celery. In fact, I eat it plain. It has a sweet, juicy flavor. I like it with ranch dressing or peanut butter too. But I didn’t know that this dieter’s friend had its own month. That’s good marketing. It gets better…
I picked up a much-anticipated hold from the library, so I’ll be busy reading for the next twenty-four hours. Of course, it’s the newest J. D. Robb book, Faithless in Death. I’ll be done with the book today, so a new, fun post will be out tomorrow. Happy reading.
I’m writing this just before dinner, and my tummy is wambling. No, I don’t need to see a doctor because wamble is both a verb and a noun that means rumble. (You can have a wamble, and your stomach can wamble.) It can also mean to move unsteadily, which doesn’t seem to have any connection…
When I make a turkey dinner (for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or even February 28, 2021), I make the same dishes every time. One of those items is pumpkin pie. My pumpkin pie isn’t fancy; I just follow the recipe on the back of a Libby’s can of pumpkin. It turns out good, but not amazing.…
In like a lion, out like a lamb. Welcome to March, the harbinger of spring, St. Patrick’s Day, and sometimes Easter (not this year, though.) I like March; it is a month of change and growth. Unlike the winter months, there are lots of happy, positive March poems. I chose the first one I liked,…