This too shall pass—along to London with my friend. I will continue reading it when she returns it to me after her trip.

Well, I am going to put this consumption on hold for awhile. I have a friend going to London and I plan to send this book along with her so she can use it, but I will pick it up again after she returns it to me.

Help! I’m an ignoramus—I don’t even know what I don’t know as far as web design and implementation. I just know there’s a lot I don’t know, but I don’t know what the direction I need to take to acquire the knowledge that I don’t have, but foresee needing!

I kind of backed into this book because I have been taking a long look at where I want to and need to be over the next five years in my career and I have come to the conclusion I need to be a lot more savvy in web, especially because I work in technical publications and that is where our company needs to go. So I am working on building skills that will make me more marketable and useful in this way and I am hoping this book will help me generate a plan for recreating myself career-wise.

(OK, I already told you I am an ignoramus!)

Plus, I think it would be cool to design a website just for fun.

One of my favorite meals in the world is a huge salad with crisp lettuce, crunchy pickling cucumbers, red onions, mushrooms, avocados, and whatever else I decide to toss in there. I top it off with my grandmother’s secret-recipe dressing of balsamic vinegar and olive oil and spices and ciao down. Fills my tummy and cleans my teeth. Oh wait—that’s dry dogfood!

And it tickles my brain at the same time with such deep and quisling thoughts as: “Why do they call red onions red when they are really purple? and “If you don’t make pickles out of pickling cucumbers, are they still pickling cucumbers? and “Exactly what the heck IS balsam anyway and why was it so popular in shampoos in the 70s but now so popular in vinegar in the ‘00s?” and “In Italy, where balsam has been popular in vinegar for hundreds of years, was it ever popular in shampoo?” and “why do they call it ‘tossed’ salad when it is more like ‘vigorously stirred’ salad?” and “who was the first person to discover that the nasty bitter little olive actually became edible when you pickled it and when you squeezed the oil out of it?”

All these things from one bowl!

I love going to markets because: 1) they are interesting places where you can learn a lot about people and the cities that contain them, and 2) I’m a girl and I like to shop. So I am exploring this book to get ideas for my trip to London this summer.

I saw this TV show for the first time last week and liked it so much, I got my daughter to watch. She enjoyed it, too, even though she doesn’t really care for David Boreanaz, one of the stars of the show. The show, on Fox, is loosely based on the life and career of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs and contains a whole slew of quirky characters. Well done.

We need a category for: have consumed/am consuming/plan to consume frequently in the future because this would definitely fit into that category for me. I listen to this CD several times a week.

What’s not to love about Norah Jones—great, versatile musician; smoky, sultry voice; daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar; born in NYC, raised in Texas? Very enjoyable.

Carter Dickson is the nom de plume of John Dickson Carr, a master of the locked-room mystery. This book is supposed to be a classic in that genre.

Great music, hard to find in the US, but thankfully Canada is not that far away. Worth checking out.