I often find a good stretch when I'm feeling tight makes me feel better, Kat. As long as you don't overdo it.

We are contemplating shopping this afternoon. I need new work shoes, and my sister is a total enabler.

I am off to the grocery store, library (to donate books), and PO. Leaving mac at home alone, we have been testing this out a little bit over the last few months.

He's watching the truly awful old Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I love how you can reach back years and years for kid entertainment and at this age, they never complain about how bad animation or special effects are.

success! More stuff out of the house and now to make some spiced butter so I can cook up the Ethiopian food, or at least make a bold attempt.

AND the beans are finally done.

How'd you do the beans msbelle?

I boiled for 2 min. on the stove in water only, then let soak in the same water for a few hours. Then rinsed and put in the crock with more water (I put in too much), garlic, salt, pepper, some hot sauce, a couple strips of turkey bacon and a can of tomato sauce. I cooked on low overnight, turned off around 6am, then turned back on around 10am on low again for 2 - 2.5 more hours. I think whole or crushed tomatoes would have been better, but I am using up canned goods I have. a bay leaf or two probably wouldn't have hurt. I should have just let it cook more initially, but was afraid of bean mush. I spooned out quite a bit of the liquid when I got out the beans, enough to cover them in the plastic container - otherwise I know they taste dry and heavy when I eat them rice, still I probably has 2+ cups of liquid in the crock, way too much. It's cause I cook messy and don't consult things ahead of time.

I got 28 out of 28 right on the Census Worker test. No guarantee of a job, of course, but it's a good start....

Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011

Ok, the more that people predict the end of the world, the less funny it is when they're proven wrong, but this one has something that amps up the schadenfreude....

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

See, he's making fun of those who believe the world will end in 2012, because he knows it will end in 2011 (even though he had incorrectly predict the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994).

Rick LaCasse, who attended the September 1994 service in Alameda, said that 15 years later, his faith in Camping has only strengthened.

"Evidently, he was wrong," LaCasse allowed, "but this time it is going to happen. There was some doubt last time, but we didn't have any proofs. This time we do."

Would his opinion of Camping change if May 21, 2011, ended without incident?

"I can't even think like that," LaCasse said. "Everything is too positive right now. There's too little time to think like that."

Mmm, home made Ethiopian food sounds like yum.

Oh, and Happy Palindrome Day (01-02-2010)!

University of Portland professor sees fun, not meaning, in numbers

There will be 12 palindromic days this century, Inan said, and Saturday is the second. The first was 10-02-2001. (To check out his complete list: faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html)

What are all these people missing about the whole no one knows the day nor hour thing?