Done yesterday (20100410 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0410 Sa
  * up 8; W=197.2; drugs, nose
  @ Atheist Barbie - Boing Boing
  * pick up car at Honda.  Drop rental's keys with cashier.
  * noonish: picnic at Michael's.  x Take a chair.
  * Baycon party at Michael and Ali's
    Colleen decided not to go.  A couple of good conversations with cute
    women, some of whom actually knew me.  Everybody knows Colleen
    and Chaos, of course.
    % I seem more likely to meet new people if I go someplace without Colleen
      More generally, without someone I know well and want to hang around with
    % With more than one person around, I have a lot of trouble staying active
      in a conversation.  And I'm not comfortable with waving people away.
  * made dinner: black bean sauce asparagus chicken; brown rice.
  @ Copyright turns 300 - BoingBoing
  " (07:51:08 PM) /me returns from a Wikipedia excursion that started with
    phantom cats and ended with the Whore of Babylon.  Made sense at the time. 
  "
  & Loaded the washer last night intending to run it after my bath.  
    forgetful bear just went splat, without thinking about it again
    ! foolish, forgetful.  Wryly amused at myself.
  @ Wikipedia articles on Canola and Olive oil make interesting reading.
    There appears to be no good evidence that canola is unhealthy, despite
    The Great Con-ola   Also see snopes.com: Canola Oil and Rape Seed
  * entered credit card and cash store receipts.
  * bed 11:15ish; Snuggle

A pretty good day. OK, a good day -- any day that starts out with Atheist Barbie and ends with an hour or so of heavy snuggling is going to be a good one, even if it does involve paying $2700 to ransom my car in the middle.

Went to the Baycon barbecue at Michael and Ali's; tasty food (expected) and some good conversations (not really expected, but delightful). I seem to do a better job of meeting people if I go someplace without somebody I'm close to. Otherwise I'll just stick close to the people I know.

I also confirmed that I don't do well in a conversation with two or more people (unless they make a serious effort to include me, which didn't happen this time and is pretty rare in general).

Links include Wikipedia articles on Canola, rapeseed, and Olive oil, which made interesting reading. There appears to be no good evidence that canola is unhealthy, despite The Great Con-ola which I linked to a couple of days ago. Also see snopes.com: Canola Oil and Rape Seed.

It's easy for me to get lost in Wikipedia.

Comments

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Raised with decent olive oil (no salad oil for Lebanese!), I still prer EVOO for cooking and as a condiment.
Otherwise, I seek out corn oil, which is getting harder to find, while HFCS is all over the place.

[mdlbear]

I'm pretty much the same. Peanut oil for frying, as long as we don't have somebody allergic visiting.

But yesterday there was no oil in the house except for canola. Wouldn't have happened if Colleen was ambulatory enough to cook every day.