Personal Metaphors - Apropos of nothing much...

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June 22nd, 2009

08:13 pm - Apropos of nothing much...
... just wastin' my time and likely yours, if you insist on reading along.

I harvested lettuce leaves and nasturtium leaves and flowers to augment our dinner salad this evening. You have to pick the nasturtium leaves when they're still smaller than a quarter, they have a light, crispy texture and mildly peppery flavor.
I like having sunlight in our backyard again. I may have mentioned this before.
Framboise Lambic is A Very Tasty Thing to drink. I wish I had some now.
After the Subaru passes its smog test tomorrow (this is me using the power of positive thinking here) we will officially be a 3 vehicle family. Hereafter known as Scooby-Do, the new addition got 23 mpg on its first tank of gas since it was put back on the road, which bodes well; Maggie May got about that on her first tank too, as I recall, and it kept getting better and better as time went along. I figure Scooby will pay for itself (registration and repairs) before the end of 2009 in saved fuel costs alone.
- Lazarus (the truck) will now only be used when M needs his tools at the other end of the trip. Scooby-Do is officially his work car and I'll be using it from time to time as needed for its all-wheel drive.
http://xstitcher.webs.com/apps/blog/ -- the link for X-Stitch Xpress's new business blog, if you're interested in following along. I've been chronicling some of the start up process for the business recently but I anticipate I'll be using it to announce additions to inventory, new ideas for product, changes to my routes, etc. Or whatever else strikes my fancy. :)
Has anyone else noticed how the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie ("At World's End") pretty much prophesied the attitudes that led to the collapse of the financial sector (and thus our economy) here in 2008/09? There's a direct parallel between Lord Cutler Beckett and some of the "captains of industry" I've seen getting their pee-pees whacked in hearings before the congress...
- They were all selfish, greedy psychopaths. But the pirates, in the movie at least, were honest about being selfish greedy psychopaths. And in the end, it was the pirates who made choices for the good of the whole rather than their own selfish (or corporate) interests. You couldn't say that about Cutler Beckett. Or John Thain, for that matter.
- Yeah yeah. It's "fiction," I know. Got it.
- But then again, "credit default swaps." Speaking of fictions, and other not-true things.
Anyway... I haven't cross-stitched since the BoINK debacle. I had intended to do some stitching over the weekend, but that didn't happen. Note to self: don't use the weed whacker and THEN load and stack green firewood unless you want your hands to tremble every time they grasp something for 24 to 48 hours.