Bits and pieces, erev Shabbat
Dec. 27th, 2002 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI was listening to the radio this morning, and Umberto Eco was on. He had a great quotation from someone whose name I didn't catch, about how all history books are modern history (ie that they reflect the age they're written in as well as the age they're written about). Interesting thought. Also discussion of the nuances of translation, how a computer using a dictionary is completely different than a person with more of an encyclopaedia (hopefully).
On another radio show, I found out that Sandra Boynton has a new book-and-CD out, Philadelphia Chickens. I suspect I shall have to read this at some point.
Done today: started a load of laundry, started a batch of bread, retrieved pysanky, got my cousin on his way, got a tray of experimental chicken in the oven (double-wrapped).
Still to do: go to the gym, then bake challah, figure out soup, salad, any other vegetable for dinner tonight. Finish the laundry. Breathe copiously :-).
Shabbat is inching later, ending just after 5 this week. Unfortunately, the storm took the eruv down, so two weeks in a row with it down; this is not a really bad thing, I think, since it keeps people mindful of what an eruv is useful for.
[1515 update: second load of laundry in the washer, rolls in the oven, gym accomplished (thanks to Cthulhia for the pass!)(minor workout: stretching plus 23 minutes on the EXT, managing 1.6 miles), leeks (I can't believe I still had some of the white parts of leeks from a farm delivery... good thing alliums last, especially in the fridge.) and onions sauteeing for soup.]
On another radio show, I found out that Sandra Boynton has a new book-and-CD out, Philadelphia Chickens. I suspect I shall have to read this at some point.
Done today: started a load of laundry, started a batch of bread, retrieved pysanky, got my cousin on his way, got a tray of experimental chicken in the oven (double-wrapped).
Still to do: go to the gym, then bake challah, figure out soup, salad, any other vegetable for dinner tonight. Finish the laundry. Breathe copiously :-).
Shabbat is inching later, ending just after 5 this week. Unfortunately, the storm took the eruv down, so two weeks in a row with it down; this is not a really bad thing, I think, since it keeps people mindful of what an eruv is useful for.
[1515 update: second load of laundry in the washer, rolls in the oven, gym accomplished (thanks to Cthulhia for the pass!)(minor workout: stretching plus 23 minutes on the EXT, managing 1.6 miles), leeks (I can't believe I still had some of the white parts of leeks from a farm delivery... good thing alliums last, especially in the fridge.) and onions sauteeing for soup.]