LSU vs BSU...

I pour myself some tootie fruities. I eat the green and red ones first. Then the fruities that remain are purple and yellow, blue and orange. When I eat some LSU colors I try to eat some BSU colors to balance it out. When I eat some BSU colors I likewise try to eat some LSU colors. The same goes for reds and greens, if I perchance eat some school colors. I try to keep the game balanced. At the end, when I can easily count the remaining fruities for each team, a winner is declared. So far I think Boise State is a few games up.

I sometimes think about such a game. Although I don't get to catch Boise State play very often, and I usually do watch LSU, I'd know so much more about LSU. But of course in my heart I'd want the mountain team to blast by the southern big boys. Either way, I guess it's a win-win. And that's how my day starts on select mornings.



I ate some cookies again. After a couple months of abstinence, I had some thin mint girl scout cookies. They're okay, but not that good, really, I mean come on--it's a cheap crusty mint flavored cookie in a little chocolate. Bonnie makes a mint chocolate chip cookie with Andes chips and real mint, and it's much better. And then, after the thin mints, Bonnie finally cracked under pressure and made a batch of chocolate chip cookies (not mint flavored). I ate three last night after a bunch of cookie dough--enough to feel like I didn't need even three cookies. Then, today, I had way too many little frozen cookie dough balls. Jeesh.

Bonnie was talking about gradually using less and less sugar in her tea, with the aim of cutting it out altogether eventually. But something tells me it probably wouldn't work with cookies, slowly cutting out the butter and sugar. I mean, what would be left? Yum, chocolate chips in egg flour!

Old Spice's advertising campaign has paid off for them. I bought an Old Spice product today, and do you know why? To smell like a man, man.

We sat down to watch Avatar last night but it was a German version with no subtitles. I fell asleep waiting to hear about the miners. Tonight, Project Runway goodness. And no hope for the coal industry.

I got enthused, and then a little doleful today. First, about Emanuel Sachs and silica PV cells. Then dolorous about the disqualification of my life achievements to get me on board with a company like his, doing something along the lines of what he is doing. I want to go work with him for free, you know. And then get PV rooftops on all the houses in the southwest, for example.

In the end, I got to feeling good again. I put a For Rent sign in the ground, put up some sheetrock, taped up some joints. I didn't listen to the Spring Fund Drive of my local NPR station. What gets me is how much of the pledge drive I listen to. Today, I listened to my own thoughts.

After working, I got to spend a good amount of afternoon with the family. That's a treat. We got ready for a picnic and soccer get-together tomorrow.

These days Venus and Mercury show their stuff in the dusky western sky.

flowers in baton rouge on easter 2010

Now that I am the age Jesus was when

Now that I am the age Jesus was when he expired, I just don't seem to have the energy I used to. Or do I? I used to be able to stay up all night painting the house. But, I must remember. These days I wake up before dawn and do physical labor most of the day. I guess my energy level is fine.

Today I am most excited about an opportunity I don't really have. But my fellow homelanders in Idaho have it. It is the opportunity to see an asteroid eclipse a naked-eye star early Tuesday morning (between 4:30 and 5am). Actually, millions of people from Los Angeles up into Canada have the chance to see it. But come on, how many of these chances do Magic Valleyers have? Actually, that's a good question, so I'll see if I can get a good figure.

It looks like these asteroid occultations are quite frequent, but notable ones are far less common. For example, I will get a chance to see one in a few days, here in Louisiana, but it will take a telescope, and the star's brightness and the brightness of the asteroid are close in comparison. In the case of Anastasia (the asteroid's name) crossing between you Idahoans and the particular naked-eye star, the star will plumb blink out for a few (up to 8) seconds. The asteroid passing in front of Baton Rouge and a star in a few days is named Bobhope.

Getting recorded observations from many people is a good help to scientists. If you are interested you can trudge through here, or read this forecast for the particular event across the western US.

I was excited yesterday about flying squirrels. I spent some time here at howpeg when I should have been preparing the house to be painted. It's inspiring to see someone make amateur nature videos with regular household equipment. And also that so many other people get inspired by it and do it. Recording a bunch of random sightings from people all over north america just wouldn't have been logistically feasible when I was growing up, before the internet circuitry came about.

That is enough excitement for one blog. If it weren't for sherbet. Here are 10 reasons why "rainbow" sherbet is better than neapolitan ice cream:

1. it is easier to spell, but actually "rainbow" is a silly name. There are 3/7 colors represented, only one of them primary. A better name would be "citrus trio" sherbet. Because
2. lemon
3. lime
4. orange are great citrus flavors. I'd be keen to see a grapefruit mixed in there. Speaking of mixing,
5. the sherbet is mixed in a swirly random chaos, much more fun than the sometimes off balanced and plain three strata of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
6. plant based, not animal based
7. no lipids
8. it cools you down after a day of work
9. it hearkens you back to your childhood days, and
10. it comes from the middle east, like Jesus.