turned out to be too hot to make brownies.

That's what I love about the solar oven. As long as I remember to start early enough in the day, it uses this heatwave heat to cook/bake things and it keeps all that heat outside of the house.

Enjoy the nectarines!

That's what I love about the solar oven. As long as I remember to start early enough in the day, it uses this heatwave heat to cook/bake things and it keeps all that heat outside of the house.

I totally should have done a solar oven when I lived in AZ.

I just took a generic vitamin 10 min ago, one I take every night. I felt a small burp and then smoke came out of my nose! WTF! I don't smoke! It took me a couple seconds to realize that the protective coating on the vitamin must have broken but the vitamin isn't all the way down my gullet yet so vitamin dust came back up and out through my nose! Auuuuuggghhhh!

Oh, icky, Spidra. Hope it doesn't taste toooooo horribly bad.

ETA: Also, I kinda want to start an internet rumor about vitamins causing smoke to come out people's noses, so that I can then report it to the Mythbusters, for the purpose of watching Adam blow vitamin dust out his nose.

My nose has that electric/annoyed feeling you get when you inhale pool water.

What's just as weird is that feeling of seeing smoke come out of your nose. I don't relate to smoking at all...

Oooh, you are fast, I just added something to my previous post. Sorry about the not-happy nasal passages. You have my sympathy. I speak as someone whose uncoated Sudafed tablet didn't go all the way down this morning.... bleurgh.

I'm sorry for your discomfort, Spidra but that's got to be a one-in-a-million shot. I wish you'd gotten it on camera.

I wish I had, too! Definitely weirdamundo!

In other news, I'm having one of those learning experiences on another forum right now. I suffer from depression and have for years. It's taken me many years and much therapy to be aware of some of my own depressive tics. Nothing makes you aware of what you do as much as seeing someone else do the same thing and getting increasingly annoyed by them. I keep trying not to spiral off into how annoying I'm finding this person's behavior at the moment.

I'm trying to remind myself that (a) it's pretty typical depressive behavior and (b) being aware of how annoying it makes me feel as a recipient/observer should remind me to be more aware of myself when in the depths of depression so that I don't drive people away with that behavior at the very moment that I'm reaching out for help and sympathy.

This kind of stuff has been a really great learning experience for me over the years. It shows me instead of just tells me.

The gluten-free brownies I made for my co-workers (one has celiac) were so good that they were all eaten up.

Do you have a recipe that you're willing to share, Jessica? I'm always after good GF recipes - and those sound like good brownies!

Spidra, the fact that your mother has chronic conditions makes the situation sound even more difficult. My sister doesn't talk about it much, but she has severe Crohn's, and she has a tendency to judge me on what she does and what I don't do. She's starting to get better about it, because I'm trying to be consistently clear about things. But that's hard work. And I don't live with her, so it's not a major problem. I hope your mother gets a bit better about things.

So I have three interview-able candidates for my PA post, unless more turn up today, being the last day before applications close. It's not a lot (although they all look like they have potential). Here's hoping the perfect PA is going to appear in my inbox today.