Today is Ancient Puer from the London Tea Room. Something hearty to fortify me as I dive into revisions. #tea
Sencha sakura again today, because why not? #tea
Having that sencha sakura today! #tea I also have a packet of salted cherry blossoms for a sort of related, herbal tea-ish experience, but I probably won't do that today.
Well, I'm having dragonwell (lung ching) this morning, since the sencha sakura's flavor is, IMO, too subtle to survive imprisonment in the Contigo. Perhaps I will have the sakura tomorrow. Or later today! #tea
Also, this maple walnut sencha is DELISH https://www.thelondonteamerchant.com/collections/japanese-green/products/maple-walnut-sencha
I haven't been on Mastodon for a while! Sorry all! Just got in some sencha sakura from Yunomi, tho, and looking forward to a cup soon.
Part of my dreams last night involved people standing around a piano reading sheet music for a song called "Where is Cole?" off someone's smartphone propped on the music stand. My brain, as it does in these situations, supplied a cliche, clunky tune. Which I am of course now earwormed with.
Please make it stop.
Here is a lovely recipe for ham and potato soup http://allrecipes.com/recipe/220127/chef-johns-ham-and-potato-soup/?prop26=dailydish&prop25=203412&prop27=2017-12-22&did=203412-20171222 I made some this morning and am eating it now and it's delish.
"It's not easy to get your hands on stuff like this!" says the pink mouse standing under the apple tree as you hand her a plain brown paper bag of apples.
Brought to you by fun nattering about Xmas carols
Thing I learned today: Microsoft Word is not familiar with either peridot or chert.
THE
FUCKING
END
tomorrow I'll have to read it over and then send it to a few people for them to tell me what I fucked up but for now THE FUCKING END and it's not even due for three weeks TAKE THAT, DEADLINE!
unneccessssary wait, fuck, look I can't keep this word straight and I was my school's spelling bee champion. I'm just going to throw some n and c and s in there and call it good ok? That red squiggle can just fuck off.
@ann_leckie speaking of being abundantly satisfied with frogs: http://thebrainscoop.tumblr.com/post/168299490166/what-kind-of-frogs-do-you-think-are-the
I trained a neural network to try to reproduce psalms and it ended up writing nonsense.
Then someone arranged one of the psalms for choir - to the theme from Tetris. http://aiweirdness.com/post/168294222082/a-computer-tries-its-best-to-learn-psalms
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is really a story about how harassers/abusers suddenly turn "nice" when they want something from you.
Neil Cross, the creator of 'Luther' quoted in the Saturday Telegraph
Oh, hey, I've been writing furiously so I can hit that upcoming deadline, I need some light, pleasant reading tonight. How about a detective novel from the 30s by a classic author of the genre that'll be just the OMG THE FUCKING RACISM
