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My office-mate just found her daughter's weblog. This afternoon promises to be highly entertaining. :-)

Update: apparently the daughter gave her mother the URL. Go figure. Based on the excerpts I've heard, she may regret that in a few years.

misc updates

We all know that, in order to get a driver's license, you have to pass a written test and a road test. It appears that in order to renew a license, you have to pass a navigation test. PennDOT will not, as a matter of policy, share the phone numbers of the testing centers -- you only get a street address. So if you need clarification on some aspect of the directions, you have to work it out yourself. This might be funny if they didn't technically work for me.

But does this perhaps signal a new trend in local law? Will the licensing test be enhanced for both giving and following directions? Will Pittsburghers learn which way is north? Will the age-old question of whether alleys count when counting blocks be answered? Will people flunk the test if they give directions that include the phrase "where [something] used to be" or use the local (non-mapped) name of a road (e.g. "the parkway")?

I wouldn't hold my breath.

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In other news, tonight was the night of cooking quantities of meat in freezable ways. I had rescued most of the meat from the freezer last night (except for some dubious chicken that I tossed), which meant I had to cook it today. Cue the crock pot of BBQ chicken, the meatloaf, and the sauteed ground turkey with cranberries and apples. (This last was what we ate tonight, and was improvised around the theme of "what usually goes on or in turkey". It needed gravy, I think.)

I am told that our fridge was a very good one -- in 1965. Time to start paying attention to sales, I think. It's functional for now, though.

We also had an On the Mark practice tonight. I think the three of us are going to sound good at Darkover. It won't be as rich a mix as we're used to (with only three people), but there's a lot to be said for working with the same people for twelve years. I can say things like "do something frilly with the flute here" and get exactly what I was looking for out the other end. :-)

(OTM would normally have been tomorrow night, but got pushed by a D&D game which in turn was pushed by Thursday's board meeting on a non-standard night. If I had remembered that choir would be cancelled last night, I might have been able to jiggle things to not miss tonight's dance workshop. Oops.)