That Book Meme Again

Ganked from several people, including but not limited to miyarificus:

1) Grab the nearest book.
2) Open the book to page 56.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5) Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

There are two books approximately equally close to me at the moment.

2. Add the sugar to the cherries and stir to mix evenly. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
3. Using the large holes on a hand grater, coarsely grate the cold chocolate. Place in a small bowl, cover, and refrigerate until needed.

- The Best Ice Cream Maker Cookbook Ever, Peggy Fallon

Wow, that was boring. Let's try the other one:

Let me give this the appropriate amount of stress: You cannot simply take the techniques that work well with seven people in your living room and use them with four hundred people at a festival.

Putting it as optimistically as possible, I can say that each increase in the size of your congregation brings forth new challenges and new opportunities for the aspiring liturgist.

- NeoPagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work, Isaac Bonewits

And let me just add: thanks for stating the obvious, Isaac. :-/ My library (or at least the portion of it that's piled around my computer desk) is totally letting me down today.

That Book Meme Again

Ganked from several people, including but not limited to miyarificus:

1) Grab the nearest book.
2) Open the book to page 56.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5) Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

There are two books approximately equally close to me at the moment.

2. Add the sugar to the cherries and stir to mix evenly. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
3. Using the large holes on a hand grater, coarsely grate the cold chocolate. Place in a small bowl, cover, and refrigerate until needed.

- The Best Ice Cream Maker Cookbook Ever, Peggy Fallon

Wow, that was boring. Let's try the other one:

Let me give this the appropriate amount of stress: You cannot simply take the techniques that work well with seven people in your living room and use them with four hundred people at a festival.

Putting it as optimistically as possible, I can say that each increase in the size of your congregation brings forth new challenges and new opportunities for the aspiring liturgist.

- NeoPagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work, Isaac Bonewits

And let me just add: thanks for stating the obvious, Isaac. :-/ My library (or at least the portion of it that's piled around my computer desk) is totally letting me down today.

Staples and Extras

So, after Ike raided my fridge (for sufficiently metaphorical senses of raided) and now it's practically empty, I need to think about how to restock it.

There are some foods I consider staples, and others that are extras/nice to have. Most of my dry, or at least non-refrigerated, staples made it through just fine. But the staples are things that I expect to be there in the fridge or pantry when I go there, and which I buy at least one meal before running out (except when I screw up, which sometimes happens). So far I have:

( Lists behind the cut 'cause they're collectively kind of long )

Staples and Extras

So, after Ike raided my fridge (for sufficiently metaphorical senses of raided) and now it's practically empty, I need to think about how to restock it.

There are some foods I consider staples, and others that are extras/nice to have. Most of my dry, or at least non-refrigerated, staples made it through just fine. But the staples are things that I expect to be there in the fridge or pantry when I go there, and which I buy at least one meal before running out (except when I screw up, which sometimes happens). So far I have:

( Lists behind the cut 'cause they're collectively kind of long )

Another Mutation of the First Line Meme

Ganked from iamjw:

Put your music player on random.
Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

In the interest of being fair to those in other time zones, I'm going to screen replies - this is an untimed quiz. ;-)

UPDATED with scores as of 7:30 pm Monday!

( 33 Lines About 33 Songs )

I have to say, iTunes went for the obscure on a couple of these . . .

Another Mutation of the First Line Meme

Ganked from iamjw:

Put your music player on random.
Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

In the interest of being fair to those in other time zones, I'm going to screen replies - this is an untimed quiz. ;-)

UPDATED with scores as of 7:30 pm Monday!

( 33 Lines About 33 Songs )

I have to say, iTunes went for the obscure on a couple of these . . .