Timelies all!

Never played the alphabet game on family trips.(And boy were there plenty of family trips growing up) One game I do remember was looking for license plates from as many states as possible.

I was having quesadillas for supper and planning to go see a screening of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. The first bite of my quesadilla tasty mouldy (everything looked fine) and the movie seems too intense for my mood. So it's a Blizzard for supper and the new Sept issue of Vogue for entertainment.

I may regret not going to the screening, but I have seen it in theatres at least twice. I am curious to see how well it has aged.

Does your office not have pencils, ita?

Nobody's sure where the supply cabinet has gone.

And it was a mechanical pencil! Thankfully I got a two pack, so I was set for the second meeting, but still. It's just not my week.

Mr Man From A Cube Over? Don't come over and tell me about concerts I may want to go to. Because? You don't know diddly about my musical tastes unless you've been eavesdropping, and if so, you've been doing so not very well.

Also? The "group from Africa, or maybe London" you recommended? Is a chick from the Bay Area.

Stop talking to me.

Nobody's sure where the supply cabinet has gone.

That's ... a little odd.

I'm watching House Hunters International, in which people are picking up and moving to Belize. Shockingly, it's not improving my mood.

I'm watching House Hunters International, in which people are picking up and moving to Belize. Shockingly, it's not improving my mood.

Me too.

I fought my laziness and actually made frosting for the cake. I've been craving a good devil's food cake for a while. Because this was made from a mix, it wasn't *good* but it was better than most supermarket cakes. I substituted melted butter for oil and substituted non-fat milk for part of the water because these mixes so often taste like nothing. I also added a couple tablespoons of Valrhona cocoa. Frosting was buttercream with Valrhona cocoa. Guilt-laden craving satiation? You betcha.

Another advantage of the solar oven is that this cake was moist as moist could be. Stupendous. I'm going to try to make one from scratch for my bday coming up.

The absence of both siblings for most of my day has allowed me to relax a bit more so I'm having a cheerful day for me despite BLABBT.

Hope your day takes a turn for the better, ita.

I have the opposite, ita. Dev keeps saying that sefects are enhancements because they are currently "working as expected." I am fairly sure however, that it's not the UX we intended. Unless our IA was my best friend's boyfriend, or Tino.

Me too.

They do choose the right house, though, imo.

That's ... a little odd.

I can't work out why no one cares, but I don't want to out myself as an office supply fetishist, so I'm just going to supply myself.

Except? Really? I have a lot of pencils. At home.