Thanks for posting the recipe, Brenda. My market has strawberries at a crazy cheap price right now.

It appears that the good folks who predicted the detonation of the UN are off by a couple of days -- but at least they copped to it [link]

Heh.

We do apologise for our incompetence at getting the day right. But we do still have the month right in our understanding and we now have a new day for this disaster. So we again strongly advise anyone in New York City with any faith in God, whatever his religion, or whatever his distrust of organised religion, to be outside the city this time between Tuesday evening July 25th and Thursday evening July 27th.

If you miss work because the Bible says your city is gonna get nuked but then it doesn't happen, does your missing work count as a religious holiday?

Does Giles have to write a note?

So here I was, browsing the Web with vw's dog comfortably tucked up at my side, with his paws on my leg. Did you know he's afraid of thunder? He just got up, took a moment to figure out his best route, then climbed across my leg to plop himself down firmly in my lap. He doesn't quite fit, but that doesn't seem to bother him, so long as he's protected.

OMG, I am so there with the strawberries. Bookmarked!

It's always best to have a note from Giles.

That's how I usually do my strawberries, minus the pepper. But I'm not a big pepper fan, so I don't think I'm missing out.

Dana, I think yogurt is fine until it looks bad.

I have never heard of a print of butter.

One time at a friend's family's house, I was sitting in the dog's seat on the sofa, when thunder came and he jumped into my lap and attempted to burrow under my ass into the sofa. This was a german shorthair, so not a small dog. It was kind of charming.

I am totally fucked at work. And I'm not sure what to do about it. Hence the posting.

Dana, I think yogurt is fine until it looks bad.

It looked separated. I gave up and tossed it, since I figured being slightly hungry was better than being ill.

Water on the top of yogurt is fine, actually. Unless it was weird and too much and then you couldn't eat it even if it was technically fine. I mean, I can almost never drink milk after I smell it, because I only smell milk I'm suspicious of, and then I convince myself it smells bad....

Hivemind: Has anyone heard of a measurement for butter as a "print of butter?"

I found this link about the history of butter making.

It mentions a "print" when explaining when butter production moved away from a do-it-yourself home project to larger scale production.

The farm production of butter began to assume definite shape at least as early as 1791 as Willard stated in 1871 that "Orange County located 50 miles north of New York City had for 80 years devoted its chief attention to butter making and the production of fresh milk for the New York City Market." "Dairy butter," as this product made on the farm was called, made up for sale was oftentimes collected as "pats," "balls," "rolls" and even "prints."

So maybe print of butter is a pound?