Humor

Spontaneous, off-the-cuff humor is, to put it charitably, not one of my strong suits. My attempts usually fall flat, and often offend. (I generally don't recognize the offense until well after the fact, which results in the denting of my forehead.)

That said:

This past week, on Questionable Content, there was a scene in which Faye, having lost her job, was looking at the classified ads. Jeph showed us the page she was looking at; off in the upper left corner was a plaintive "Please, I just want my chickens back." On the forums, during a discussion of that strip, someone asked, "So, anyone have any ideas where the chickens might be?" I immediately replied, "On the other side of the road?"

Which I thought was funny. Apparently some other readers did too: I got half a dozen Likes.

And it wasn't even a pun!

:preens:

This and That

Today was the annual high school math competition, and as usual I was one of the judges. I managed to get home before the snowstorm blew in; we're under a Winter Storm Warning through 6 PM tomorrow. It's coming down out there - not coming down hard, but coming down. They're predicting 5-7 inches.

Knowing this was coming, I made my weekly big grocery run yesterday; I'll be making "Arroz con Queso" (also containing black beans, tomato, onion, and garlic). It looks filling, at least.

Meanwhile, I'm still revamping my Skyrim database. The new version will be more extensive, flexible, and streamlined; a lot of things I had to enter individually with the old version will be taken care of automatically now. I realize that it's a silly thing to be spending time on, but I'm learning quite a few new tricks in Access programming, which will come in handy when I (inevitably) redo my Finances and Library databases. Changing the Rowsource property of a ListBox dynamically is only the first....

Whatever. I've got cocoa, coffee, and a variety of teas, plus two dogs to help keep me warm (although having two dogs on a three dog night is less than satisfactory), and four walls around me to keep the wind and snow off. Nothing to worry about, yah.