my cat is helping me type

got a nice photo of the nestlings. where 2 upload?

Typing with both hands again. The cat is old enough that his wishes are indulged as much as possible.

Both hummingbird nestlings are resting their chins on the edge of the nest. Alas, Little Buzz was way ahead of me and my camera so there is no photo of her at the nest. Yet.

Looked around for Laudanum. If there's no Turkey Opium available, pouring a bottle of pale ale over a cup of poppy seeds makes a nasty tasting beverage with minor effects. Doesn't sound worth the bother even if I do enjoy pottering around with herbal tincture stuff.

I do remember a story about putting babies to sleep for the day at harvest time with a poppy and milk brew.

My Easy Bake Oven was yellow. [link] This was a bit before everything marketed to girls had to be pink. (When did the "Pinkify ALL the things!" thing happen, anyway? I think I first really noticed it in the early nineties, when I started seeing softball mitts and bats and stuff in pink. I'd been playing softball for years by then, and mitts had always been brown leather and bats were black or silver.)

Strike what I said earlier. I think the model Hil linked to was the one I had as well.

I think my Easy Bake Oven was shit green.

ETA: Comme ça: [link]

My mom didn't hold with no toys that worked. You want real cooking? Come help me can tomatoes.

Those onesies are adorable, sj.

I hope the medical types are getting your coughing and other symptoms sorted out now, askye.

That is one ugly oven, Sue.

It was the Seventies, Dana.

I think that is even uglier than the "teal" one I had. I didn't think it was possible.

My mom didn't hold with no toys that worked. You want real cooking? Come help me can tomatoes.

That was my mom, too. And yet she was shocked when I decided to make French bread by myself at 12 years old.

My day today involved dealing with students cheating on a quiz. Like, completely blatantly copying an answer. An entire page worth of work, exactly the same. And it wasn't even a correct answer. (And there's one other question on that quiz where exactly three students -- these two, plus one I've been suspicious of in the past but haven't been able to prove anything -- looked at a fairly straightforward problem, which was identical to problems from the lecture, from the homework, and from the textbook, and solved it in a very sophisticated way that was nothing at all like any method I have ever discussed in class. The answers they gave aren't identical, though, and I can't figure out how it happened. But it involves using a method that I wouldn't expect any of them to think of, and then, in the middle of it, using a trig identity that we've never discussed in class and isn't listed on any of the "memorize these identities" lists that they're given.)