After only having just a little hair cut off last time, I really needed to get a haircut again. I decided to go back to Ning, but this time I was going to take some pictures with me, so I did another search for Alton Brown pictures. I found some really good ones on a blog site called The Big Benford Show. This woman has been to an Alton event and took really good pictures of his hair. I printed some to show Ning. I printed an especially large version of THIS one, because I think it shows his style the best.
But Ning wasn’t there.
Instead, I was seated in the chair of Ken. I showed him the pictures and he said, “That’s a really good idea.” Then he got to work. It’s shorter than it has been in a while, but it does look like the pictures of Alton. Good job, Ken!
I have a wart on my left pinky finger. It’s been there for a week or so and I kept forgetting to get something to take care of it. Yesterday I finally did.
I stopped at Target for some batteries and remembered to get the wart stuff too. Denis was with me, and we kept joking about my wart by saying things like: “I’ll wart for you over here,” and “Wart did you say? I didn’t hear you,” and “Just a minute, I need to go to the bathroom and wart my hands.” Ha! We were cracking ourselves up!
Anyway, I got some of the wart freezing stuff. It’s really easy to use, but I’m not sure it did anything. Right after I used it, there was a whitish-reddish splotch around the wart, but now it looks like it’s back to normal. I’ll wait a couple of days to see if anything happened.
Here’s an “after” picture. The wart is kind of hard to see in this picture, but I didn’t want to get grotesquely close. It’s just below the first bend in my pinky. The red spot toward the side of my pinky is a gardening wound.
Last night was my church’s bullroast event. It was fun. This time I did not make the mistake of filling up with cole slaw or bread or pasta. I ate beef. Lots of beef. I had a few celery sticks, then had more beef. It was beef-a-licious! There was also a raw oyster bar, but I didn’t have any of those.
I played the wheel-of-fortune thingy and won a plant again this year. I don’t know what I’ll do with another plant. My house is full of them already. I think I might have a sickness.
I bought some raffle tickets, but didn’t stay the whole time to see if they won. There was no silent auction this year, so I didn’t have anything keeping me there. I’m a big fan of silent auctions, but raffles don’t do much for me. I never win.
It was a nice evening. Good food, and nice people. And lots of beef.
I always order garden plants in the spring. They’re usually something too unusual to find at my local garden centers. Or they’re cheaper by mail order. In the case of Eucomis comosa ‘Sparkling Burgundy’, it was both. This variety of pineapple lily is still unusual enough to not be found locally in very many places. In the places where you can find them, they are expensive.
So I turned to The Internets. And I found a place that sells them inexpensively. And it’s not on the other side of the country. The name of the place I ordered from is Crownsville Nursery. I have to say, I’m really impressed with what they sent. The pots were huge, and the eucomis were healthy.
I got an email yesterday that said the plants were coming via UPS. All day long I tracked them… from Virginia… to Sparks, Maryland… to “delivered”. Woo hoo! When I got home, I tore in to the box. Beautiful, beautiful plants! I think I might order more stuff in the mail just so I can have more packages waiting for me when I get home from school. I don’t think there are many joys greater than having a package delivered to your home. Alright, alright… being nominated for an Academy Award is pretty exciting I imagine. And being promoted to CEO. And traveling to Italy. But if you’re not doing one of those, a package is pretty cool.
We have an ancient climate control system at school that uses hot or cold water in pipes to raise or lower the temperature at school. This is the time of year where I wish we had something a little more modern. The system can’t just be switched from “hot” to “cold”. A specialist must come out and switch it over. It’s always a crapshoot deciding when to do the switch. In the fall and spring, the temperatures can be really warm one day, and really cold the next. So for now, hot water is still running through the building, and on days like yesterday, it gets really, really hot. To add to the fun, the boiler is under the floor of my classroom, so the floor itself radiates heat.
But there’s an upside to all this heat. I believe I’ve mentioned before that the heat makes the kids sluggish. That makes them less noisy. It also gives me an opportunity to further calm them by saying that movement generates heat, and that talking generates heat. Both things are true and it often gets them all to settle down.
I just hope they never use that argument against me when it’s cold in the room: “But we have to talk and get out of our desks. It generates heat!”
