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miko2Why do I suck? Because I can tell Sky to write more and play EQ2 less, and I can feel all superior because I haven't been playing CoH much at all and I haven't subscribed to any other online games, and I still have failed to write very much this week, but I've played a lot of mahjongg.
We shipped to Mrs. Fields today. Cynthia noticed it and said something about yummy cookies. This got my attention because it was the 2nd time I'd run across a reference to Mrs. Field's cookies today. Earlier today before I left for work, I was reading through Too Good To Be True, The Big Book of Urban Legends, by Julie's favorite author Jan Harold Brunvand, which is a book I recieved for Christmas a few years ago (but I forget who from), and I read through the Neiman Marcus cookie urban legend (which I'm sure most of you have heard at some point). Years ago this was "The Red Velvet Cake Recipe from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel" urban legend, and then it briefly morphed into a Mrs. Field's cookie recipe legend before becoming the currently well-known Neiman Marcus cookie recipe thing which gets sent around the internet by people who are less skeptical and cynical than I am, which would include most of my immediate family, and apparently my co-worker Cynthia.
I explained to Cynthia how I'd read about Mrs. Field's in association with this urban legend earlier in the day. When I mentioned the Nieman Marcus recipe, she said that she had a copy of that at home, and after I finished my explanation she asked, "You mean that story's not true?"
Le sigh.
But I was able to add that, if you visit the Neiman Marcus web site, they not only debunk the legend but they list a free copy of their own cookie recipe. Cynthia said she wanted to check it out. I repeated this story a few minutes later to Sandee, who is normally a quite gullible person but who knew that the Neiman Marcus thing was an urban legend... and she said she wanted to check out their web site for the recipe as well.
Now I began to wonder. The book was a few years old. Did Neiman Marcus still have that recipe on their site?
The answer is, of course, yes. Internet-savvy urban legends are like vampires, you can't kill them, so they'll probably have that page up for many years to come. ^_^
So I was told it would snow today, but when I got up the roads were clear and dry and the temperature was clearly above freezing. At work I heard that it would probably start raining after midnight and maybe snow as well. By 10:30 pm it was raining and our billers had left, and Stephanie called us on her cell phone to inform us that it was snowing in Tacoma and we should leave soon.
Jim and I were done -- and everyone else was nearly so, so we took off. Luckily for me I wasn't planning to drive around to Hood Canal like Jim was. Well, he's got a 4 wheel drive, he should be okay. But as I drove North, it was raining hard but the roads were merely wet. It was still above freezing. As I got further North the rain seemed a little slushy but still clearly rain, not drifting at all. I decided to take the 85th street exit just in case; I live in the convergence zone and it's very possible to have no snow at 85th and lots of snow by the next exit at Northgate.
As I came up Greenwood the rain got slushier and slushhier. By the intersection at 105th it was definitely snow, but not sticking to anything. By the time I pulled into our parking space I could see some actual accumulation -- mostly on the garbage can lids and on the other cars, but also some on the bushes and even a little on the sidewalk.
So basically, I got home just in time. ^_^ An hour delay, or a drive a few miles further North, and I probably would have seen some snow on the road.
Actually now that I'm home and it's the weekend I hope it sticks. It would be fun to see the Seahawks game played in snow tomorrow, that would be unusual for a city like Seattle. For those living up in Bellingham, I hear you're having a lot of fun. Or at least, our Bellingham terminal was having a lot of fun. ^_^
Of course, it snowed last night in places outside of Seattle and terminals like Bellingham and Bremerton had problems with deliveries, but Spokane got quite a lot of snow and it was just business as usual for them. They like to laugh at all of us on this side of the mountains. ^_^
Personally I think I'm not a science nerd, but they didn't ask the right questions to find out what kind of nerd I really am.
I don't have a clue what this one means.
We shipped to Mrs. Fields today. Cynthia noticed it and said something about yummy cookies. This got my attention because it was the 2nd time I'd run across a reference to Mrs. Field's cookies today. Earlier today before I left for work, I was reading through Too Good To Be True, The Big Book of Urban Legends, by Julie's favorite author Jan Harold Brunvand, which is a book I recieved for Christmas a few years ago (but I forget who from), and I read through the Neiman Marcus cookie urban legend (which I'm sure most of you have heard at some point). Years ago this was "The Red Velvet Cake Recipe from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel" urban legend, and then it briefly morphed into a Mrs. Field's cookie recipe legend before becoming the currently well-known Neiman Marcus cookie recipe thing which gets sent around the internet by people who are less skeptical and cynical than I am, which would include most of my immediate family, and apparently my co-worker Cynthia.
I explained to Cynthia how I'd read about Mrs. Field's in association with this urban legend earlier in the day. When I mentioned the Nieman Marcus recipe, she said that she had a copy of that at home, and after I finished my explanation she asked, "You mean that story's not true?"
Le sigh.
But I was able to add that, if you visit the Neiman Marcus web site, they not only debunk the legend but they list a free copy of their own cookie recipe. Cynthia said she wanted to check it out. I repeated this story a few minutes later to Sandee, who is normally a quite gullible person but who knew that the Neiman Marcus thing was an urban legend... and she said she wanted to check out their web site for the recipe as well.
Now I began to wonder. The book was a few years old. Did Neiman Marcus still have that recipe on their site?
The answer is, of course, yes. Internet-savvy urban legends are like vampires, you can't kill them, so they'll probably have that page up for many years to come. ^_^
So I was told it would snow today, but when I got up the roads were clear and dry and the temperature was clearly above freezing. At work I heard that it would probably start raining after midnight and maybe snow as well. By 10:30 pm it was raining and our billers had left, and Stephanie called us on her cell phone to inform us that it was snowing in Tacoma and we should leave soon.
Jim and I were done -- and everyone else was nearly so, so we took off. Luckily for me I wasn't planning to drive around to Hood Canal like Jim was. Well, he's got a 4 wheel drive, he should be okay. But as I drove North, it was raining hard but the roads were merely wet. It was still above freezing. As I got further North the rain seemed a little slushy but still clearly rain, not drifting at all. I decided to take the 85th street exit just in case; I live in the convergence zone and it's very possible to have no snow at 85th and lots of snow by the next exit at Northgate.
As I came up Greenwood the rain got slushier and slushhier. By the intersection at 105th it was definitely snow, but not sticking to anything. By the time I pulled into our parking space I could see some actual accumulation -- mostly on the garbage can lids and on the other cars, but also some on the bushes and even a little on the sidewalk.
So basically, I got home just in time. ^_^ An hour delay, or a drive a few miles further North, and I probably would have seen some snow on the road.
Actually now that I'm home and it's the weekend I hope it sticks. It would be fun to see the Seahawks game played in snow tomorrow, that would be unusual for a city like Seattle. For those living up in Bellingham, I hear you're having a lot of fun. Or at least, our Bellingham terminal was having a lot of fun. ^_^
Of course, it snowed last night in places outside of Seattle and terminals like Bellingham and Bremerton had problems with deliveries, but Spokane got quite a lot of snow and it was just business as usual for them. They like to laugh at all of us on this side of the mountains. ^_^
Personally I think I'm not a science nerd, but they didn't ask the right questions to find out what kind of nerd I really am.
I don't have a clue what this one means.
