Ah, October: where have you been all my life?

It's, um, in the eighties out there and heading higher. Ninety-higher, according to a swift poll-of-polls. (It is extraordinary to me, how the top ten weather forecasters on the internet can disagree so profoundly not only about their forecasts but about what the temperature is right now, right here. Very odd.)

Needless to say, I am loving this. It's October. I may have Fall in love.

In other acclimatisation-kind-of news, I may already have betrayed my legal-residence status, by jubilating yesterday over Europe's last-second astonishing-comeback defeat of America in the Ryder Cup. For those of you who do not care about such things, you will not care about this - but ooh, yes. That was good. On US soil, too. That's fit revenge for '99 and the infamous 17th green.

But I am clearly on my way to becoming Americanised, even if I'm not there yet. I had pie for breakfast, and damn' fine pie it is too, tho' I say so myself as shouldn't. I made it with apples and pears. I admit to making the pastry - which appparently I should call "crust" these days? - in a machine, but hey. I make my pesto in a machine too, and have long since stopped apologising for it.

TextMaker yay

In Son of Other News, SoftMaker has finally released the Linux edition of its latest version of my word processor of choice. Hurrah and yippee and shiny!

The only question in my head is whether I spend $45 on the Linux edition alone, or $80 to upgrade both Linux and the Windows installation that I never use but, y'know, it's for fallback. Especially as there have been times I've needed to fall back, and there is little more annoying than not being able to open a file because it was created in a later version of the software and things just aren't forward-compatible.

Or of course I could wait for the inevitable bug-fix release, and hope for a better special offer...

Some would say *dithers* at this point, but I prefer *cogitates*. (I always picture little cogs going around, linking thought to thought in an irresistible process towards an inevitable conclusion...)

Foods, and a related question

So I made khasi momos for dinner tonight (from Andrea Nguyen's Asian Dumplings), and they were a great success. Traditionally they should be made with water-buffalo meat, but that's thin on the ground here in Sunnyvale, so I used bison. Just sayin'.

On a more serious dietary question, though, Karen and I have both watched this TEDx video from Dr Terry Wahls. Now I have no problem with her general eating-greens-is-good-for-you thesis, and I am fully prepared to believe the science behind it; but this is eating-greens-is-a-miracle-cure territory, and I have more trouble with that, mostly because I am suspicious of miracle cures in general and fad diets in particular. Her own experience is interesting but insufficient on its own. On the other hand, the internet isn't full of howling voices calling her a quack (or if it is, I can't find them). But neither is it full of peer-reviewed clinical studies confirming what she says (or if it is, I can't find them). Does anybody know anything about this? Because it is relevant to my interests...