New Book Blues

A new book came out last week by the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal people, it's titled A City On Mars. They've spent several years researching quite a number of topics and it looks like quite an interesting read. Wednesday I was in Las Cruces, stopped by Barnes and Noble, and picked up a copy. Unfortunately I completely failed to see the table that it was on when I came in the door, couldn't find it in the store, and a clerk picked it up for me.

Me not picking up the copy is very significant.

This evening I brought my copy in from the car and flipped through it. Something struck me as very odd, so I leafed through it again. Then I opened to a couple of random pages, then a couple more.

They are skewed. Ever so slightly. I handed it to Russet. She pulled out a measuring stick, and it's like a 1 mm skew. Barely noticeable. EXCEPT I CAN'T UNSEE IT!

So as we drive through Las Cruces Tuesday on our way to Phoenix, we'll be swinging by the B&N so I can exchange it.

*sigh*

We all scream for ice cream!

I've mentioned before that I have a new favorite ice cream: Godiva's Midnight Swirl. An amazing chocolate ice cream. There's one problem with living at 9,000' - well, there's many, but one in particular with ice cream. IT EXPANDS. So in addition to it thawing a bit because it takes half an hour to get home from the grocery store, the lid pops up a bit. In the warmer months it also dribbles. In the freezer, I put it on the bottom under a metal shelf, which means - shucky darns! - you gotta eat down the ice cream a bit or the puffed-up bit will get squished down and make a mess.

Oh, horrors! You have to eat some ice cream before you put it away!

I called Russet into the kitchen as I also got her some chocolate strawberry which had the same problem.

We were both trying to come up with a bad joke - I have thoroughly corrupted her in the almost 20 years that we've known each other - I finally came up with 'We must suffer for our just desserts' which she liked and she was trying to come up with something along the lines of the Dessertderata which prompted me to say 'Go placidly amongst the noise and haste and remember the value of really high butter fat quantities' to which she told the poodles 'Will somebody go over and bite the man?'