Morning discoveries
This morning, I spent much of my shower and drive to the grocery store contemplating what would have been the different human, political, and economic costs if we had decided to just relocate everyone residing in afghanistan to someplace else in the world. In my little hypothetical, this was mostly the United States, with some going to europe and maybe a few to the modernized asian countries. Obviously one of those non-practical solutions that makes everyone hate you, but I can’t help but wondering if it might’ve worked out better in the long run. Then, as so often happens when I go off on one of these tangents, I started concentrating on relatively minor trivia. How would you stage the moves? What steps would you take to integrate people in society? How much free would you give them (housing, health care, stuff) and for how long before you start asking them to take control of themselves?
Then, I went to the store for cream, bagels, and bacon to make myself a breakfast sandwich. When I was creating my sandwich, and toasting the bread in the oven, I wondered why the butter wasn’t absorbing into the bagel, but was simply running off and seasoning my pizza stone. Then I realized that the butter has to melt BEFORE the bread gets toasted, which won’t happen when you use cold butter from the refrigerator. So, next time, I need to remember to set the butter out before I go get the bacon. I’m fairly certain everyone else knew this, but I just figured it out this morning. Also, using taco seasoning in your eggs on a bacon breakfast sandwich is as tasty as it is with an omelet breakfast sandwich.
I just now discovered that most of the time, when I type “butter”, I type it as “buttor” and have to back up and replace it.
I discovered that my EEEtop that I use as a media server can handle it when I send data to it from BOTH of my other boxes (I’m backing up my entire DVD collection), which is odd because it often loses network connection under normal circumstances (I need to find a better media-server.) I still haven’t figured out why.
Finally, I was reminded that I love wordpress, but I still wish they didn’t need so many damn updates. Every time I log in, it seems like there is a new version of wordpress available. Sigh.
Still…it’s been a good morning. :-)
Unless it is just really hot in your kitchen, I have found that in Germany it isn’t necessary to refrigerate sticks of butter, just get a butter dish with a cover and leave it out on a counter. I also saw a kitchen gadget (and oh, I love kitchen gadgets!) that is shaped like a stick of butter and allows you to put the butter in it, nuke it, and then it is soft within about 1 minute. That would be the thing to use in the summer, but leaving it out in the winter should be ok.