I'm having a slow day. I successfully cleaned my apartment, but it took me about 4.5 hours. Now I'm on my bed, trying to convince myself to eat something and grade papers.

I'll do it. I'm not avoiding. I'm just... slow.

One thing that I heard (though I don't remember where) is that milk smells and tastes bad before it will actually make you sick, which made me completely comfortable to be a sniffer.

I'll give it a few days after the sell-by date. I'm a sniffer. Unless it's butter milk. I can never tell so I just dump that on the sell-by date.

I tend to only go a couple days after the sell-by date, because milk ALWAYS smells bad to me, so I don't trust. If it's more than like, two days after, I tend to just assume it's bad. Because I can't TELL, otherwise, and I'd rather be out money than be wrong.

The only thing I really tend to assume is good long past the "sell by" date is eggs. ....reading up on that, apparently I should look at the "pack date" rather than the "sell by" date, and get an accurate answer that way. But I normally don't crack them straight into whatever I'm making, so I figure I can tell if they're bad.

The way to tell if eggs are bad before cracking them is to put one into a glass of water. If it sinks to the bottom it's good, and if it floats at the top it's rotten.

Rotten, or just not real fresh fresh? A rotten egg is a pretty dramatic thing.

In broker times I've eaten many a hard-boiled floaty egg and never had a problem.

I usually sniff milk first anyway. With the kids around it's not like we've had a lot of opportunity for it to go bad, or even meet it's date. Well okay, sometimes the buttermilk gets a bit long in the tooth.

I'm trying to figure out my cable lineup, because I'm just really sick of Comcast not having TCM or AMC on the regular cable lineup. The cheapest digital plan looks like it costs the same as the regular non-digital, which can't be right, right? Googling came up with some complaining that, if you get digital, they also charge $18 a month for the cable box. Why can't they just tell how much each thing costs? I just want two more channels than what I'm currently getting! Why should I have to pay for an upgrade to digital plus a zillion channels that I'll never watch, just to get channels that every other cable company offers on regular cable?

Gronk. I'm exhausted, yet not quite tired enough to fall asleep. Too tired to concentrate on a book or TV show for more than about five minutes. And my knee is being wobbly, and I don't know why.

(x-posted with Natter)

We're interrupting this with a (hopeful?) newscast:

Barak and Livni disagree with Olmert, want quick end to Gaza fighting.

C'mon, brain-of-Olmert. For once in this term, work.