There is no end to what we can do together

Oh, lordie. Did I need this? There I am, innocently walking downtown and thinking about Mars, thinking about Kipling, as I should; and I walk past the bookstore, as you do, and there's a bloody book in the window, Lawrence in Arabia - and oh hell, of course bloody T E Lawrence would have gone to bloody Mars if that had been an option, when he was reinventing himself after everything went sour. And that's a whole nother book, and did I need yet one more...?

One for sorrow, two for joy

We may have spent (a lot) more time looking at pix of her twin babies than discussing legal issues, but Karen and I saw our immigration lawyer today, and filed the application to convert my temporary green card into a permanent affair. (Hmm, "a permanent affair" - isn't that called a marriage?)

J'y suis, j'y reste. If they let me.

I hope we all learned something today

Who knew that you could toast nuts in the microwave? Not I, but now I know it. Three minutes turned my pecans roasty-toasty and delicious; and all this lesson cost me was a piece of tupperware, which I had taken to be microwave-proof, and so it was. The microwaves went straight through it. Unfortunately, so did the hot nuts. I call this sub-optimal, but hey. I have a lot of tupperware. And I toast a lot of nuts these days. It's good to have a quick way to do it that doesn't involve either the oven or a lot of anxiety over a dry pan with a flame beneath. Also, it's good to have a use for the microwave, given how much space it takes up.