The Extistential Household Appliances edition
It’s officially spring, so I’ve changed the stylesheet. (Maybe next year I’ll have come up with some different stylesheets, other than my spring-summer-fall-winter cycle. But for now, this works just fine.) Of course, for the first day of Spring in the lovely ever-green Pacific northwest…it’s overcast and drizzly. Thankfully, though, it’s in the high 40s / low 50s. So - hey, it’s warming up!!
I’ve succumbed and joined Twitter, and I suspect that I’ll be updating that a bit more frequently. (How sad is that?!??) Feel free to follow my updates - or even just go bookmark the page, if you’d rather not join Twitter yourself.
My Braun coffee grinder died about two weeks ago. It was nearly 20 years old, so it had a decent life. I got a new one - larger capacity, all shiny-stainless-steel. I paid a little more than I wanted, but the others that were available (at Le Target, at Fred Meyer) were either ittybittytiny, or almost completely comprised of plastic. I do not want to pay $20 for something that’s mostly plastic! So, thanks to Macy’s one-day sale (which ran for two days - I guess they were actually having a “very-large-value-of-one day sale”) I got a $45 coffee grinder for $32. Not too shabby.
Oh - and Battlestar Galactica? Excellent finale. Ended things properly, didn’t halt everything, didn’t answer every specific question, provided just enough information for people to draw the conclusion that would make the most sense to them (not the one that they were necessarily most comfortable with, but the one that would make the most sense with their worldview), nicely closed that particular book. What I’d like to know: there’s a theory that there are only really twelve story / mythology themes, which run through all human stories (in different variations, according to time/culture/audience/et cetera.) Did that theory have anything to do with how many Cylon “skinjob” models were seen in the series? Or am I reading too much into this?
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