A few things
Apr. 18th, 2012 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI bought a few of those solar garden lights that have become so popular recently. I put them in a few of the deeper pots on the porch, and waited until evening. They totally change the place, making the porch closer to an outdoor fairy room. I think I'll get some more of them. And to go with that, a bit more care setting up the porch this year, so it will be a more appealing, useful space. Goals: grow some edible plants, have an attractive space (ideally set up such that future years will be easier to set up), make a solar oven of some sort (and experiment with what I can make in it), and host more porch meals.
Speaking of the season, yesterday I saw a huge bee buzzing around my porch. I have no idea what it found appealing up there, since all I have is some leaves (though this morning I noticed that one pot of chives has buds already), and the season is offering so much more than usual for this time, with tulips, magnolias, even lilacs starting already.
Very cool Hebrew typographic translations. I found the Al Jezeera, Elaf, and Zaytoon ones unreadable in Hebrew, but then, I'm not fluent. All of them impress me with their visual faithfulness to the original. In fact, the Pokemon ones was a bit disturbing, in that the two are so obviously related that I first found my eye sliding over the Hebrew without reading it, then trying to read the Japanese (which I can't do).
From a contract "The Work has not been heretofore published or exploited in any form anywhere in the universe;" Which of course made me think of contract law on Mars, or the issues of publishing while on a space ark between more settled domains, and so on.
I procrastinated on doing the taxes this year (which was more about gathering the papers than doing the calculating, since the process is pretty familiar at this point), taking advantage of the extra day in MA because of Patriot's Day. I felt badly about it, since I didn't manage to do any of the other things on my list instead. Which is much of why I only managed to turn the kitchen over this morning. I still haven't managed to eat truly non-Passover food; breakfast was an odd salad: a little can of mandarin oranges, some spicy green olives and some salt-cured black olives, chives from the porch, some roasted turkey breast, a dash of curry powder, olive oil, rice vinegar, and some mayo. (Yes, this is not breakfast food for most people....)
Speaking of the season, yesterday I saw a huge bee buzzing around my porch. I have no idea what it found appealing up there, since all I have is some leaves (though this morning I noticed that one pot of chives has buds already), and the season is offering so much more than usual for this time, with tulips, magnolias, even lilacs starting already.
Very cool Hebrew typographic translations. I found the Al Jezeera, Elaf, and Zaytoon ones unreadable in Hebrew, but then, I'm not fluent. All of them impress me with their visual faithfulness to the original. In fact, the Pokemon ones was a bit disturbing, in that the two are so obviously related that I first found my eye sliding over the Hebrew without reading it, then trying to read the Japanese (which I can't do).
From a contract "The Work has not been heretofore published or exploited in any form anywhere in the universe;" Which of course made me think of contract law on Mars, or the issues of publishing while on a space ark between more settled domains, and so on.
I procrastinated on doing the taxes this year (which was more about gathering the papers than doing the calculating, since the process is pretty familiar at this point), taking advantage of the extra day in MA because of Patriot's Day. I felt badly about it, since I didn't manage to do any of the other things on my list instead. Which is much of why I only managed to turn the kitchen over this morning. I still haven't managed to eat truly non-Passover food; breakfast was an odd salad: a little can of mandarin oranges, some spicy green olives and some salt-cured black olives, chives from the porch, some roasted turkey breast, a dash of curry powder, olive oil, rice vinegar, and some mayo. (Yes, this is not breakfast food for most people....)