I’m at home at the moment because I’ll be working the Late Shift this week in order to accomplish some concentrated testing on the program changes I’m working on. I think it’s going to end up being a brutal day since I seem to have woken up early. Must be the change in the weather and the upcoming time change…<\/p>\n
So far, I’ve spent the morning checking e-mail, and wandering around the Classmates<\/a> web site, checking out who’s there. If you aren’t familiar with it, check it out… it’s a CyberStalker’s wet dream! I even sent a note to a girl I was friends with a long time ago. I’ll let you know how she responds (if they’ll let me have internet access from jail!!! just kidding!<\/i>)!<\/p>\n I’ve got the Man Toys<\/b> (aka power tools) all ready to do some puttering around Xoozland. The video shelves should be completed by the time I have to go to the office this afternoon. And if I’m up to it, I might actually break out the “shovels and rakes and implements of destruction” (to quote Alice’s Restaurant<\/i>) and start giving the outside a bit of Spring Clean Up! <\/p>\n Anyone want to come over and help?<\/b> I’ll buy dinner and the beer!<\/p>\n These were in the latest email installment of Yahoo! Picks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Got Mead?<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n One of the oldest fermented drinks, the honey wine known as mead has been mentioned in classic texts such as “Beowulf”, “Oedipus”, and the “Rig Veda”. The potent potable has been connected to the term “honeymoon” and is rumored to be an aphrodisiac. While it starts with honey, different cultures have flavored this beverage with spices, grapes, apples, cherries, pears, malt, hops, rose petals, and even chile peppers. The taste can range from a dry champagne-like flavor to that of a sweet dessert drink. These days, nearly 100 commercial meaderies worldwide produce the liquor, and home-brewing is a popular hobby. This site is full of tips and recipes for making your own Ginger Cinnamon Warm Up or Valhalla Vanilla mead. Or you can learn the subtle differences between some 36 varieties of honey. Makes for sweet dreams indeed.<\/p>\n Gravely Gorgeous<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n Cornell University’s art museum shares its gallery of gloriously grotesque architectural ornaments, a collection of images filtered through a 19th-century lens. While gargoyles were most popular during the Gothic period of medieval architecture, these fanciful decorations also played a significant part of the Gothic Revival in the 1800s. Old gargoyle-infested buildings were repaired, and new ones sprung up in Europe and America. The legendary gargoyles of Notre Dame de Paris owe more to Victorian romanticism than to medieval superstition. In fact, most of the original medieval sculptures had broken off, and the figures seen today were installed around 1843. But gargoyles aren’t just the winged demons you may imagine. The literal definition of a gargoyle is a “decorative waterspout.” Weird and fanciful statuary that doesn’t perform this function is termed a “grotesque.” Many grotesques have a humorous appearance and depict a world filled with vineyard robbers and contorted toothache-sufferers. No matter what you call them, these gruesome beauties are morbidly appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m at home at the moment because I’ll be working the Late Shift this week in order to accomplish some concentrated testing on the program changes I’m working on. I think it’s going to end up being a brutal day … Continue reading
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