Oh So Boring... » Uncategorized http://www.ohsoboring.com The trials and tribulations of a man and his life. Tribulations, that's an odd word. Let's blog about it... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:39:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Weekend Plans… http://www.ohsoboring.com/2009/08/14/weekend-plans/ http://www.ohsoboring.com/2009/08/14/weekend-plans/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:35:43 +0000 Fortran http://www.ohsoboring.com/?p=282 Well, it’s weekend time…woo!  Of course, the ol’ nerd doesn’t have many plans, but the few I have are good.

Tomorrow is Saturday which means tomorrow is library day. Yay!  Any day with a visit to the library is a good day.

Sunday is Farmer’s Market day.  Last week, I got some heirloom tomatoes:

Heirloom Tomatoes

They were yummy and not numerous enough.

I also picked up a yellow watermelon:

Yellow Watermelon

which yielded enough cut up:

Yellow Watermelon...Cut

Mmm…I love yellow watermelon. I think it’s sweeter than red, though you don’t get the lycopene that’s in red watermelon:

Lycopene!

Lycopene!

This stuff absorbs blue-green light and, thus, looks red. (I might do the math this weekend to prove it. Go particle-in-a-box!) But, you know what has lycopene? Tomatoes!

Beyond these two things, not sure what else I might do. See a movie? Maybe. Read a book or two? Probably. Make another cheesecake? Could do.

Any suggestions?

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My new shoes are Brooks Addiction Walkers (in brown) which are, according to the salespeople, perfect for my flat, over-pronating feet.  And yes, they do feel good.

But, it turns out size 13 (ladies…), width double-E (ladies…) walking shoes that are nice and stiff to prevent ankle turning, yeah, they are not the best for pedal feel in a Honda Civic.

That was a fun drive home.

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To wit, the new blog is now located at:

http://www.ohsoboring.com

I believe that domain really captures my essence.  I *think* I’ve set up a good 301 redirect from my old domain, but if you are reading this with an RSS reader, it might be a good idea to unsubscribe/resubscribe.

As for the apologies, well, just wanted to say sorry that I haven’t blogged more recently.  The new job has been quite…full, and by the time I get home I just want to crash.  I hope that as time goes on, I’ll settle into a good routine and start posting more often.

I mean, who doesn’t want to hear my a) nerd nattering on science-y stuff or b) my whining-whining-whining about my life?

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