Friday, June 22, 2007
My trip to new york in comics
So Greg over at Real Life Comics was in New York earlier this week and now is doing comics based on the trip. It reminds me a lot of my trip in the spring. For instance this:
The hotel room
...and The short trip.
Amusing exchange
Customer: *pointing at muffin* Is that orange?
Me: No, that is blueberry.
Customer: *pointing again at the muffin* No, that muffin right there.
Me: Yes sir, thats blueberry.
Customer: *pointing, yet again, at the same muffin* No, no this one here.
Me: Yes, that is blueberry.
Customer: Oh, it's not orange?
Me: No, sir.
Customer: Oh, you don't have any orange then?
Me: No sir, we are out of orange muffins but we do have this box of one dozen starving , crazed weasels.
Ok... So I added the weasels part just now, but the rest of it really did happen.
Milk!
Yes, I know. Many of you will find it somewhat surprising that I would care about milk at all, but I do. The only thing I do not like to do with milk is to drink it plain. But I do enjoy it with additives. Chocolate, coffee, cereals...
So I'm at work today and notice that a) we have one carton of half and half and generally go through a carton and a half a day. Ok, I figure I'll just make the rest with the heavy cream and skim milk (half and half...) but then see there is one gallon of skim milk left so that could be an iffy thing too.
Anyway, I then go on with my work and eventually things slow down and I can eat my breakfast -- Muslix cereal with milk. I notice the milk doesn't seem quite as tasty as usual. Later on I notice that the milk is not, in face, Coburg milk like we generally use here. As milk goes, Coburg is pretty amazing. We had someone once order a drink with skim milk and bring it back complaining that it was made with whole. When we assured her that it was, indeed, skim she said there was no way that it could be skim and be so good. (This was shortly after we had switched to Coburg milk at the old shop.) We showed her that it did come from a carton marked skim.
Coburg milk is just that good. Now, I hate skim milk even more than I hate white milk and would drink a glass of whole white milk before I'd use skim milk on my cereal or to make a coffee drink or chocolate milk so I use the amazingly thick and sweet whole variety.
Anyway, I was just wanting to let people know that I do care about milk and I am quite picky about the milk I like (as I am with most any other product that I consume).
In other news:
Still struggling to get Ubuntu Linux to work on my laptop. Having issues with the wireless card that is in the computer as have others. If I can't get it working I'll just replace it. (The wireless card, not the computer or Linux.) Other than that most everything is working, except for the multicard reader and I could only test one type of card in it anyway since my parents have a digital cam with SD cards. I don't know anyone with other cards nor do I care since I don't use cards for anything except in that I just feel like if a computer has a piece of hardware stuck in it it should work.
Tuesday Dr. Wyatt had me come by his office to talk and told me that he would at least be able to get me a partial tuition waiver ($1500 a semester, about the cost of one class) this next year and may be able to get me a full waiver ($3000 a semester). This would involve 9 hours of work a week. When figuring out how that works out hourly it is more money than I have made before. :) ($15-$30/hr)
Then he asked if I could sing in the Summer II Chorus. Of course he asked me this after he told me he was getting me money so how could I turn him down? :) Hopefully I won't have to be up there every Tuesday and Thursday night in July, though. He said he is splitting the chorus up into two groups (it is a double chorus work), the community group and the trained singers group and that the trained singers group won't meet at the same time and it won't be a problem if I have to miss rehearsals the last week of July due to the wedding of the sister. And I asked Tim if I could continue doing the Tuesday night thing with him if need be and he said sure.
And speaking of summer chorus, last night's rehearsal was much reassuring. Tuesday was an off, OFF day for us and had Dr Krueger, Tim, and myself a little discouraged. But last night was far better than it was on Tuesday. I hope it stays better for the coming Tuesday but at least if it is better again by Thursday we won't have all weekend to forget it since the performances are Friday and Sunday (and a few of us will be singing for the mass at the church on Saturday night).
One summer term will be over in just over a week, woo! I might not even have to do my presentations the rate things are going! We didn't have class yesterday and there are still a number of presentations left to go before mine (I'm at the very end). If we do get to them, though, I got the materials I requested through ILL: Hillier's book on Pärt, the score to Pärt's Passio, and a little pamphlet on Tan Dun. (One of the few printed materials I was able to locate on him.) The Passio score is very interesting indeed, instead of using a traditional full score only the parts that are involved at a particular moment are printed, making for a very clean page.
Anyway, I'll stop boring you with all of this. I have also ordered a book for pure enjoyment with ILL. I hadn't ever really thought of ordering regular old books through ILL -- most of what people ordered when I processed ILLs at the seminary were dissertations written in German.
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)