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Then again, the energy you need to boil an entire pot of tea or, say, 1.5 litres of water, is 3.4 million Joules, which sounds like a lot, but then remember that a dietary calorie is 4200 Joules, so in those units it's only 810 or so. And when I'm not on a diet, I eat about 3 times that every day, enough to boil 4.5 litres of water. Kind of strange to think that my tepid existence consumes enough energy to boil my kettle dry twice a day.
My mission for the next 5 minutes is to open my Python Openid implementation and do, something, anything with it. So far I've just been entertaining myself with the semantics of multiplying sequences by integers. Apparently you can't multiply sequences by each other, oh well.
Sun Jan 13 05:38:19 PST 2008
Ta-da, the tedious query construction now uses urllib instead of
my hand-coded crap. It's even a tiny bit less tedious. Also I stopped
pretending that cgi.FieldStorage is a dictionary because it
just isn't.
Sun Jan 13 15:31:08 PST 2008
Then I went to bed. And now the bean soup is properly underway, hurrah.
Sun Jan 13 17:25:54 PST 2008
What to do while a 3-hour recipe is cooking? I guess the kitchen could certainly stand to be cleaned.
Boy, this sure would be less awful if I did it more often. At least there isn't a solid layer of caked grease on the counter by the stove like last time.
Sun Jan 13 18:43:45 PST 2008
Guess I'd better mop up the kitchen floor now. But perhaps first I should sweep the kitchen floor. Time to get the broom, dustpan, and bucket, and fetch out the Roomba box while I'm at it, and replace the filter.
Sun Jan 13 20:03:04 PST 2008
Now I know why they call it "gray water". Good lord. Time to get more pine oil cleaner.
But it's all OK, because now I have bean soup. Huzzah!
Sun Jan 13 22:06:22 PST 2008
And now that I've had dinner, and the butoxyethanol and pine oil fumes have cleared, I can think about what to do for the rest of the evening.
Sun Jan 13 23:18:48 PST 2008
Can you believe it, I've set a reminder to clean the kitchen again in 2 weeks. Anyway, time to make oatmeal.
OK, oatmeal's under way. I had a brain wave and mixed the cinnamon and the apples in the Cuisinart instead of painstakingly sprinkling the cinnamon into the oatmeal while stirring to keep it from clumping together.
In the meantime, I'm looking at my journal archives to see how often I cleaned the kitchen in the past, and it's kind of horrifying. Once last November, once last May, and the first time after I noticed the cleaners hadn't been around in ages in September 2006. So that's an interval of 8 months, 6 months, and then 2 months. I guess that's an encouraging trend.
Mon Jan 14 01:06:00 PST 2008
And that's the oatmeal done. I'll pass on any more of these fresh pickles, because my certain knowledge that they have not been more sternly preserved against spoilage (they're in a plastic container) makes me very nervous about any mushy spots.
