Oh, How Accomplished

Yesterday I cleaned out the garden (in preparation for the party); took the dog for her Epic Drag; wrote 600 words on Sarah 3 (which still hasn't a name, damn her); put up the outside Christmas lights (which required a trip up the hill to Walgreens to buy a replacement strand, on the bus. In the rain. Poor me); started the Massive Pot of Chili for the party; and went out to the Exploratorium After Dark "Sugar" exhibition, which featured cool-to-me sugar sculpting, science-of-sugar demonstrations, and a weird demo of an herb that not only prevents you from tasting sugar, but prevents you from metabolizing it (excellent for weight loss, the man said--if you can't taste the Hershey bar, you probably will stop eating the Hershey Bar--or stop taking the herb).

And returned home to fall over in the proud consciousness of a day jam-packed with Doing.

XKCD for a Friday Morning

In honor of NASA's announcement about arsenic-based life forms...