This board frequently makes me want to fold up the country like a tesseract so I could make visiting California a day trip. (No offense to non-coastal Buffistas, but DANG there are a lot of us in LA & SF!)

Microwave rice = surprisingly good! (Not that surprising, since rice cooks by steaming which is what microwaves do. But it never occurred to me to make it this way before.)

Trader Joe's has very good frozen microwave brown rice. It is, indeed, surprisingly good! It's sort of magical, really.

I just noticed that there's a town in PA called Loyalsockville. I really want to know where that name came from.

(No offense to non-coastal Buffistas, but DANG there are a lot of us in LA & SF!)

If you did it accordion style, then we'd all be day-trips away from each other, except for UnAmericans (other than Canadian types). And of course if you figure it out for this continent, then we'd be able to figure it out for the entire world. Of course, now I am imagining all the water in the oceans pouring out the troughs of the folds, so maybe that's not such a hot idea.

Fun with fluid displacement!

Ooooh, we could aim it at the moon, or Venus, or something.

I have mopped the dining room floor, made cinnamon streusel quick bread, gotten my friend's mechanic fiance to fix Dan's car's brake (metal on metal -- scary, and we paid for parts and will pay for labor on payday, thank god for friends) and I arranged for a scrap metal person to come on Monday and haul the old stove out from the garage.

I'm playing with dessert. Pie crust, honey crisp apples, struesel-y topping with McCann's oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, flour, and butter.

I've mishmashed about four different recipes. It'll probably taste good at any rate.

I watered the garden, then went to Zumba class and became a huge red-faced sweatball. Then, I came home to watch neighbor electrician guy and his lovely polite trainee, who has a ZILLION piercings, run wires through walls and stuff to install our new TV and all the surround sound speakers my DH is having orgasms over. It isn't done yet, but it will be great. meanwhile, I am going to go see "Easy A" with a friend and leaving my DH with his mistress new sound system.

I just noticed that there's a town in PA called Loyalsockville. I really want to know where that name came from.

It's named after Loyalsock township, which is named after Loyalsock creek, and as Wikipedia says:

The name is a corruption of a word in the language of the local indigenous peoples meaning "middle creek" (the original was something like Lawi-sahquick). This refers to Loyalsock Creek's location between Lycoming Creek and Muncy Creek, with the mouths of each about 6 mi (10 km) up- and down-stream of the mouth of the Loyalsock. Several important trails used by the local indigenous peoples ran along parts of the Loyalsock or crossed it. Two important villages of the local indigenous peoples were located on its banks, one of which, Ots-ton-wak-in, was the home to Madame Montour and her son Andrew Montour, and later became Montoursville.