Words of Wisdom

[davidn]

I don't know if it's just a British thing, but you may have encountered "Life's Little Instruction Book", a collection of tiny bits of advice to help you become a calmer, wiser and utterly boring generally happier person. Everyone goes through life picking up these small but significant lessons and bits of information, and as part of what might become a series depending on how much juice I can squeeze out of it, I thought I would share just a few of the things I've learned this week.

• Without fail, every time I decide to take a day off on account of feeling a bit ill and anticipating a very quiet day anyway, within an hour, at least one of our clients will phone up to say they've just set the workflow on fire
• Fresh bake-at-home rolls are one of the best things in the world
• There is no more effective keyboard glue than Nantucket Nectar orange and mango juice. I spilled no more than a few drops on it the other day and despite just about filling it to the brim with Windex the 9 key still needs to be levered back into position with a plectrum every time I hit it a bit hard
• Baseball games at Fenway mean that handhold space is at a premium, meaning that I am perfecting the emerging commuter art of bus-surfing
• You shouldn't put commas in values in comma separated value files
• Frosted Mini Wheats "Big Bite" are larger versions of miniature frosted Shredded Wheat, so they're exactly the same as frosted Shredded Wheat anyway. What a country
• Eating crisps that have been spilled on the floor will cause severe stomach-exploding episodes in the middle of the night
• Attempting to wear sandals without proper training results in awful blisters
• The music from the first level of Zero Wing is fantastic and deserves an update
• My trousers are chavtastic

Comments

[kibet.livejournal.com]

And we all know that if you swallow a little book of calm and lodges itself in your intestine, it will be absorbed by your body.

[davidn]

Leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it!

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

Gah, that's what I was going to say! Put a dab of lavender in your milk!

(We finally got a dvd player that plays European ones, so spent the weekend watching all three seasons of Black Books)

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

Also, large mini frosted wheats is the stupidest thing ever, why are they not just 'normal' frosted wheats? Shouldn't the sizes cancel each other out? This is like jumbo shrimp....

[davidn]

The "put a dab of lavender in your milk" line has taken on a new meaning for me now, as the woman in the office next to us who organizes tastings got us to try lavender cheese. It's surprisingly all right, but it tastes like you have a mouthful of flowers after you swallow it.

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

I've used lavender in cooking before, but as part of a sort of 'herbes de provence' deal, with rosemary and sage. It's nice on grilled chicken, but I don't know if I'd, you know, graze on it or anything.

Lavender cheese does sound good, though.

[(Anonymous)]

The original shredded wheat was pretty large...certainly not bit size by any stretch. You generally had to break it apart in your bowl and it took half a dozen or so bites to eat if I remember right. I have no idea if they make it any more but that may help explain some of the size confusion.