There had been this shiny jewel-like bug on the bottom of this leaf. It flew off just as I was taking its picture, but the veins in the leaf itself look really cool up close…
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Ok, so it’s a kitchen island, not a wall. And if you count, there are 26 actual bottles. But six of them are half-size mini bottles, so if you’re measuring volume it works out to twenty three.
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Never mix paperclips and canned air. It’s a recipe for disaster.
There haven’t been any office supply and tetrafluoroethane related mishaps in our office, thank goodness, but I’m sure there are people out there who may be tempted to store their bent metal fasteners in that the little plastic straw that you get taped to the side of the air cans. All I can say is, if you forget that it’s there, it’ll come back to haunt you. Especially if you’re trying to blow dust out of a computer that’s still plugged in.
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Good grief! First Mac Neverwinter Nights, and now this… How do the gods of time wasting know that my wedding is coming up in November?
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The full release version of the Mac Neverwinter Nights arrived on Friday! Just in time to be shuffled aside while we finished cleaning and prep work for the party on Saturday… I was able to play around with it for a bit on Sunday and, so far, it’s pretty darn impressive. I did note a few oddities in multiplayer mode though.
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Today the blood orange wine was supposed to be all bottled and corked. It isn’t. I’ve got three or four dozen bottles and corks in tubs of sanitizer in my kitchen. I’ve got the carboy of wine up from the basement and on the kitchen counter. I have my racking cane and siphoning tube all ready to go and I’ve borrowed my friend Rob’s floor standing corker.
And it’s all going to have to sit there for a while. When I brought the carboy up from the basement, it was jostled enough to cloud up a bit.
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But a friend of mine found a “What Sci-Fi Character Are You?” quiz that I liked…
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The blueberry wine is alive. I generally put a paper towel over the mouth of the carboy when the wine is starting so that air can get in, but dust can’t. I hold it in place with a sterilized rubber band or hair-tie. The blueberry started foaming up a bit the night before last, and it did it even more yesterday. This morning it was insane. The towel was bulging and stained purple from berry juice, and when I removed it from the top, there was a near-volcanic outpouring of pulped berry bits.
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